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News: cracked protective coating on the Willis Tower's glass viewing deck, 410 metres above ground level, leads to temporary closure. (more...) View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: architect and professor Sawako Kaijima explains how she created a research and gallery space with "completely diffused lighting" in our next exclusive movie from this year's Inside Festival. (more...) View the full article

Fed up with the beauty ideals portrayed in the media, designers are challenging body image with products, clothes and accessories that distort the figure and face, highlight preconceptions and poke fun at unrealistic trends. Here are 10 of the best we've seen. (more…) View the full article

Competition: it's coming up to Valentine's day so we're giving readers the chance to win one of ten packs of Little Romance paperclips by London designer Lee Washington. (more...) View the full article

A cross-laminated timber roof covers this six-lane swimming pool, which London firm Hawkins\Brown plans to add to a school in Surrey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail leads with MVRDV’s proposals for a 400-metre skyscraper that looks like a pile of buildings and also includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 128 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Foster + Partners has used custom-made bricks to build a campus near Shenzhen, encompassing a university, a hotel and housing that all take in views of the South China Sea. Read more View the full article

News: international architecture firms IND and Powerhouse Company have won a competition to design a 100-metre-tall broadcast and observation tower in Turkey with a design that resembles a continuous ribbon. (more...) View the full article

Views of Peter Zumthor's Bruder Klaus Field Chapel and a rippled timber reindeer observation pavilion by Snøhetta are among the 16 shortlisted photographs for the 2013 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards, a selection of which go on show in London next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The shortlist of architects to resurrect Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace exhibition hall leads this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, which also includes the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 191 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: Google Street View has captured the inside of its first skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, allowing users to virtually explore the tallest building in the world. (more...) View the full article

French architect India Mahdavi has distorted the familiar coloured stripes found at seaside resorts to create the scenography for this exhibition of 20th-century furniture from the Centre Pompidou's collection. Read more

This week architects have been unveiling concepts for the redevelopment of New York’s Grand Central Terminal and SOM’s ring-shaped observation deck sliding up and down two skyscrapers proved the most controversial for our commenters, who set about mocking up some hilarious alternative renderings. (more…) View the full article

New York-based designer Ben Denzer has attracted a fleet of followers on Instagram with his ice cream photography series, which see tasty frozen treats matched with aesthetically pleasing books. Read more View the full article

Denton Corker Marshall's recently completed Venice Biennale pavilion will be transformed into a swimming pool for next year's architecture exhibition. (more…) View the full article

Designer Yves Behar of San Francisco studio Fuseproject has launched his OUYA open-source game console. (more...) View the full article

Google data and mouse movements become customisable textile patterns in Print All Over Me's fashion collaboration with artist Lia and studio Sosolimited. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Pan Yi Cheng of Singapore studio P.A.C won the award in the retail category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for a shop for furniture brand Herman Miller. In this movie we filmed, the architect explains how a recent emergence of young practices is helping Singapore become a “more vibrant” place that is starting to find its own identity. (more…) View the full article

New York City's underground transport network is going to get more than 1,000 redesigned trains that will aim to increase capacity, and reduce overcrowding and delays (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Aberrant Architecture renovated the interior of this small private school in London with brightly coloured walls and furniture that pays homage to the building's Edwardian roots (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a chandelier for a château in Marseille, France, that looks like an illuminated rope suspended from the ceiling. (more...) View the full article

Italian industrial designer Diego Vencato has created a collection of wooden textiles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An elevated bicycle highway for London, a "bike in a bag", and a glow-in-the-dark cycle path were among Dezeen editor Anna Winston's favourite cycling-related designs on Dezeen this year. (more…) View the full article

We've selected four promising job opportunities for furniture designers from around the world, including positions at Philippe Starck's design agency in Paris and Stellar Works in Shanghai. Read more

The front of this house in Kraków, Poland, is curved dramatically up towards the sky so that Polish architect Tadeusz Lemański could squeeze a garage underneath (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article