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Our story on street ads that double as benches and canopies were popular this week, so our latest Pinterest board is packed full of street furniture with a difference. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See all our stories about street furniture » View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Schmidt Hammer Lassen who are currently redeveloping the site of the 2010 Shanghai Expo (pictured), OMA and Populous plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marcel Wanders, Harrods, Universal Design Studio and more... (more...) View the full article

News: car brands BMW and MINI have enlisted Alfredo Häberli and Jaime Hayón to create mobility-themed installations for Milan's annual design week in April. (more…) View the full article

A free-running staircase (pictured) 3D-printing space robots and the "Walkie Scorchie" all feature in Dezeen Mail issue 168, which also includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 168 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Mexican studio Agent has designed a concept for a transparent football that changes colour when it passes over the goal line. (more...) View the full article

An iron staircase reminiscent of structural trusses connects the two floors of this house in Milan by Italian architects Roberto Murgia and Valentina Ravara (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Brazil headquarters for retail conglomerate Walmart's online division by Estudio Guto Requena has colour-coded levels and a terrace with a miniature golf course (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wooden ladder and a pair of winding steel staircases link the rooms of this lofty house in Sapporo, Japan, by Jun Igarashi Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A black house designed to "look like a shadow" was popular last week, so we've collected some of our favourite black residences from the pages of Dezeen onto a new Pinterest board. See our black houses Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Slideshow feature: following the news that Shigeru Ban will receive this year's Pritzker Prize, here is a look back at some of the buildings designed by the Japanese architect across his 30-year career. (more...) View the full article

Curving concrete walls frame secluded meeting rooms along the central thoroughfare of this architecture faculty building at Bond University in Queensland, Australia, by Peter Cook's architecture firm CRAB Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brazilian office Santini & Rocha Arquitetos has added a lightweight roof with a leaf-shaped structure to the Beira-Rio Stadium in the city of Porto Alegre ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on 12 June (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect talks us through three of his practice BIG's current projects and explains why he considers diagrams to be such an important design tool. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: American illustrator Stefan G Bucher created an homage to the music video for Take on Me by A-Ha as the starting point for his collaboration with singer and songwriter Wesley Stace, AKA John Wesley Harding. (more...) View the full article

This small portable lamp by ECAL graduate Claudio Gatto is powerful enough to be used on a balcony, in the basement or at the park. (more...) View the full article

Comments update: when Apple's Jonathan Ive took to the stage at London's Design Museum, he probably didn't expect his comments on education to become the most hotly debated topic in design this week. (more...) View the full article

News: autonomous vehicles in urban areas could be up to thirty years away, according to Audi's Thomas Müller, the engineer leading the development of the brand's driverless sports car (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Italian designer Moreno Ratti has created a vase from rings of marble offcuts that are piled up like the pieces in a Tower of Hanoi mathematical puzzle. (more…) View the full article

Sports brand Adidas has accused fashion designer Marc Jacobs of producing "confusingly similar imitations" of its iconic three-stripe motif with sweatshirts bearing four stripes down each sleeve. (more…) View the full article

Patterned tiles, geometric screens and a bright yellow staircase were added to this apartment in Athens by local studio Point Supreme (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An overhanging upper storey clad in concrete panels leans out over the glazed entrance of this ballet rehearsal building, added to a former transportation hub in the German city of Düsseldorf (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This umbrella-shaped street lamp by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a crystal-covered canopy and allows passersby to leave augmented messages for their friends (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect David Chipperfield has continued his foray into furniture design with a wooden coffee table and sideboard for German brand e15. (more…) View the full article

Sou Fujimoto's spotlight installation for fashion brand COS, a pyramid-shaped superyacht and this year's Bjarke Ingels-designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (pictured) feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 294 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a call for experienced design architects to join UNStudio in Amsterdam, whose projects include a theatre with a moving ceiling in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article