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Chinese studio Neri&Hu has unmasked the I-beams structure of the oldest steel-framed building in Shanghai to create an Italian restaurant with a raw industrial interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London architect Dingle Price has revamped a warehouse in Hackney to create a bright spacious home and studio for a painter and his family. (more...) View the full article

This range of anti-drone clothing was created by New York designer Adam Harvey to hide the wearer from heat detection technologies. (more...) View the full article

Product news: London studio Industrial Facility has designed an office furniture system for American manufacturer Herman Miller that promotes interaction in the workplace (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Metal trellises offer a framework for climbing plants and vines around these recently completed houses in Poitiers, France, by Bordeaux studio Lanoire & Courrian (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Following our story on a wooden skyscraper proposed for Stockholm this week, here's a series of timber architecture from Dezeen's archive. See all wooden buildings » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has furnished an apartment in Le Corbusier's iconic Cité Radieuse housing block with his own products and blown-up pages from a punk fanzine (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: New York design studio Atopia has moved to defuse the row over the authorship of the 2012 Olympic cauldron, saying: "we have never accused Thomas Heatherwick of plagiarism". (more...) View the full article

News: an exhibition of drawings, photographs, models and videos documenting work by Italian architect Renzo Piano opens on Thursday at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. (more...) View the full article

Designers Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid have adapted the flocking process to make a hairbrush that's coated in human hair. (more...) View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick was accused of copying the design for the Olympic Cauldron just days after being awarded a CBE for services to the design industry. Read on for more architecture and design news from the last seven days plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: DMY Berlin founder Joerg Suermann gives us a guided tour of this year's design festival in our second report from Berlin. (more...) View the full article

Following claims that Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron design isn't original, we've compiled our top stories about copying in design. (more...) View the full article

Spiralling stone walls will be carved with images of extinct species - with space reserved for future extinctions - at this observatory and education centre designed by Adjaye Associates for the Isle of Portland, England. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in the second of two columns exploring the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob looks at how Google Maps is reshaping cities while Apple, Facebook and Amazon are reshaping the natural landscape by building their own headquarters as self-contained ecosystems. (more...) View the full article

News: London architecture firm Grimshaw has unveiled a masterplan for the home of the annual Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament. (more...) View the full article

Our pick of the ads on Dezeen Jobs this week is an opportunity for designers to work with Neri&Hu at its London, New York and Shanghai offices. Neri&Hu, founded by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, is a design and research practice whose work includes The Waterhouse at South Bund (pictured), which transformed a disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel and won World Interior of the Year in 2011. See more stories about Neri&Hu on Dezeen » Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Australian architect Raffaello Rosselli has repurposed a corroding tin shed in Sydney to create a small office and studio apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Domaine de Boisbuchet in south-west France to offer the chance to win a place on an architecture and design workshop this summer (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A group of Royal College of Art graduates has used the pulp from mulched newspapers to form helmets for London's cycle hire scheme (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A bulky concrete first floor balances above pale brick walls and tall grasses at this family house in Brazil by São Paulo architect Guilherme Torres (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Californian designer Chad Wright has made a sandcastle mould of a typical American house to recreate post-war suburbia on the beach (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Nine stone cabins are sheltered beneath a single thatched roof in this addition to a hotel resort in Nha Trang, Vietnam, by architecture practice a21studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: urban improvements such as cycle paths, parks and public transport could transform Brooklyn and help turn New York City into the USA's leading location for technology firms, according to plans unveiled this week. (more...) View the full article

News: British architect Colin Stansfield Smith, a pioneer of UK school design, has died at the age of 80. (more...) View the full article