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Dezeen Music Project: French visual effects studio Superbien has used projection mapping to transport Cameroonian singer Irma to different environments in this single-take music video for her track Save Me. (more...) View the full article

Steven Holl responds to the critics that blasted his controversial extension to Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art, saying that adhering to their comments would have "ruined the design", in this series of movies about the building. (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2014: Rotterdam designer Martijn van Strien has launched his own fashion brand with a collection of unisex garments that are laser cut into shapes based on architectural structures. (more...) View the full article

News: architect Rem Koolhaas has today been confirmed as the director of the next Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014 and wants to use the opportunity to readdress the "fundamental elements of architecture". (more...) View the full article

A timber framework echoing the shape of an old lock-keeper's cottage has been installed on both sides of a canal in London's Olympic Park to host a two-month programme of events (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and students are invited to submit projects to this year's Tile of Spain Awards. Read more

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a fellowship in architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University, where the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (pictured) is located. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen Jobs has plenty of job vacancies in Germany available right now, with roles in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Cologne, including positions with Studio Olafur Eliasson and HENN Architecten. Read more

Jaguar has revealed its first electric car, expected to hit the roads in 2018. Read more View the full article

Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition of unattributed ceramic pieces that questions the importance of identity in the design industry. Read more View the full article

Travel agency Luxury Action is planning to build the "northernmost hotel in the world" by placing a group of heated glass igloos at the North Pole. Read more

Los Angeles-based artist Lucy McRae has created a survival kit for a post-apocalyptic future, designed to be carried on the body as if you were a sherpa. Read more View the full article

Product news: the seat of this chair by Venetian designer Luca Nichetto is made of folded felt. (more...) View the full article

A staircase connecting a series of split levels ascends through a void at the centre of this house in Jakarta, which features a cantilevered upper storey that projects over the entrance. Read more View the full article

MIT engineers have created a blackest black coating from carbon nanotubes that is reportedly 10 times darker than any material created before, including Vantablack. Read more

The bottom floor and courtyard of this house in Melbourne by Studio Architecture Gestalten are sunk underground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American studio AvroKo has completed a cafeteria and coffee bar in the new San Francisco headquarters for tech company Dropbox, providing a "place of comfort" that aims to keep employees from leaving the office (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A former theatre in Mexico City has been restored and reconfigured by Bandada Studio into an interactive museum that displays a giant model of the metropolis (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

TBC Forum by UNStudio is a financial centre under construction in the hills above Tbilisi, Georgia, that aims to be a more positive working environment than traditional bank headquarters. Read more

Most Loved: in the next movie from our exclusive video series, British designer Alexander Taylor discusses the impact his folded metal light for Established & Sons had on his career. (more…) View the full article

Danish brand Republic of Fritz Hansen has become the latest furniture company to launch an accessories range, which includes a brass candlestick by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón and cushion covers by Arne Jacobsen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Five weeks to go until Dezeen Day! Read on for details about a special ticket offer for friends and colleagues wanting to attend our architecture and design conference on 30 October. Read more

Designed in Hackney: these side tables by Haggerston designers Warm feature deep round trays supported on tubular steel legs that make them resemble snare drums. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week Zaha Hadid unveiled a pair of shoes featuring striations - parallel ridges like those carved into rock by a glacier. Striations and strata - horizontal layers of material such as sedimentary rocks - are common inspirations for today's architects, as this archive of geologically inspired projects shows (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A woman in Arizona has died after being struck by an autonomous vehicle; the first fatal accident between a pedestrian and a driverless car. Read more View the full article