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With more and more countries planning to eradicate petrol cars, Jaguar has unveiled a zero-emissions version of its iconic E-type model – which it hopes will "future-proof classic car ownership". Read more View the full article

Designers and brands need to wean themselves off the plastic "drug", according to Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch, who is releasing his organisation's shoes made from recycled ocean plastic with Adidas today (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

New copyright laws in the UK have come into effect, effectively banning replicas of some of the most-copied icons of 20th century furniture design – including pieces by Arne Jacobsen, and Charles and Ray Eames (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sea urchins, mussels and crabs are among the marine creatures that are expected to take up residence in a floating structure in the San Francisco Bay that was created by a multidisciplinary team at the California College of the Arts. Read more

This week Dezeen is in Cape Town so here's a steampunk-inspired coffee shop in the city by South African designer Haldane Martin. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate David Steiner has turned his house into a factory by adapting household appliances to create a range of tableware and lighting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Naoya Matsumoto Design has launched a collection of simple kitchen stools that are painted at the top and left with a natural finish lower down. (more…) View the full article

Set back from the beach behind a row of houses, this Mexican villa has terraces and a swimming pool raised up so residents can relax outdoors with a view of the ocean (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This bulky concrete school of art, design and architecture was completed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and is one of over 300 projects being showcased this week for the World Architecture Festival in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Sunken cruise ship the Costa Concordia would be transformed into a watery memorial garden in this competition-winning conceptual design by London architecture graduates Alexander Laing and Francesco Matteo Belfiore. (more...) View the full article

Flights of stairs in odd places (above), a flat-pack concert hall by Renzo Piano and a hotel in a former prison all feature in this week's Dezeen Mail, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 141 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Iran's largest pedestrian bridge, a pink rubberised park by BIG and Zaha Hadid's first building in Lebanon are among the six winners of this year's $1 million Aga Khan Award for Architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Peter Zumthor has revealed that the visualisations for his new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which proved controversial with Dezeen readers, do not show the building as he intends it. Read more View the full article

Dezeen is launching this year's edition of Dezeen Awards and hosting a series of talks with leading architects and designers at Stockholm Design Week 2019. Read more

News: Ikea has announced that it is to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with. (more...) View the full article

Architect Takeshi Hosaka has built himself a micro home in Tokyo that has a total floor area of just 19 square metres and features a pair of curved roofs. Read more

Female faces peer out from a pink-hued wall mural that features inside this bar, which Bryan O'Sullivan Studio has created in west London hotel The Berkeley. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Büro Ole Scheeren, Priestmangoode and David Kohn Architects, whose renovated Barcelona apartment is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Lego, Studio Fuksas, Mecanoo architecten and more... (more...) View the full article

Mexican architecture studio Arqmov Workshop has overhauled a V-shaped industrial building by adding a patterned facade, windows that angle outward and a prominent entrance on the pointy corner. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a senior design engineer at London studio rAndom International, whose Rain Room (pictured) is currently installed as part of the EXPO 1: New York exhibition at the MoMA PS1 in New York and allows visitors to play in the rain without getting wet. See more stories about rAndom International on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for architects at Studio Fuksas, whose terminal at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in China is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen promotion: lighting consultancy LightCollective has collaborated with electronics brand Philips to create a smartphone app enabling lighting designers to collect and share their inspirations, available to download and trial for free from today on Apple and Android (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London studio Matheson Whiteley has revitalised a trio of dilapidated 1940s warehouses to create a new contemporary art gallery opposite one of the city's historic churches (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Timber-clad rooms are stacked vertically and rotated around a spiral staircase to form this hotel in China's Anhui province, treating guests to 360-degree views of the surrounding tree-covered mountains. Read more View the full article

Canadian studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has completed a new home for the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, which features white facades that are meant to evoke a blank canvas. Read more View the full article