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Here's a movie we filmed with designer Daan Roosegaarde about his concepts for glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps to make highways safer, one of five projects honoured at last week's INDEX: Award. (more...) View the full article

Installations formed by blending coloured lights, and a lamp based on jellyfish were produced by Dutch designer Dennis Parren for the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This barbecue by Barcelona designers Mermeladaestudio will char your food with geometric patterns. (more…) 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

A tree-filled courtyard is glimpsed through the shimmering glass-brick facade of this house in Hiroshima, designed by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Concrete walls, wooden floors and simplistic furnishings form "transparent" living spaces within this pair of formerly light-starved Tokyo apartments renovated by Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa Design Read more

Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has completed a pine-clad cultural museum in western Norway, featuring a spiky roofline designed to help break up the scale of the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an architect at Oppenheim Architecture + Design in Miami, which proposed carving desert lodges directly into a cliff face in Jordan (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A trio of courtyards covered in cobbles and surrounded by glass break up this London home, which has cedar-lined walls that reference the old timber store it replaces. Read more View the full article

A verdant courtyard lies at the heart of this inward-facing, dark grey dwelling by Brazilian studio Saeurmartins, which was designed for a couple who love vintage cars. Read more View the full article

Israeli illustrator Noma Bar has created a wooden pavilion shaped like a bird with a leafy back among the trees of a wood in central Japan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: an exhibition of new products for Dutch brand Moooi, including lamps shaped like upturned buckets and bathtubs by Studio Job, opens in Milan's Tortona district tomorrow (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are amused by the care instructions accompanying Apple's new credit card. Read more

Swooping steel-clad walls support the cross-shaped roof window of Kenzo Tange's 1960s St Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo, documented in these new images by architecture photographer Edmund Sumner (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designer Johannes Torpe has created a series of whimsical furniture for Italian furniture brand Moroso, inspired by a relationship and its breakup. Read more

Our next interactive slideshow features the most recent products by Nordic architects and designers for Danish brand Muuto. (more...) View the full article

The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm has a new exhibition space within one of its lofty galleries, featuring wire mesh surfaces, a huge round window and a ramp winding round its exterior. Read more

Dezeen promotion: designers and architects including Ross Lovegrove, Kenneth Grange and Snarkitecture have customised Modus' cork Casper stool for a charity auction (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Burgers Architecture has built a vacation home on Vancouver's Bowen Island with gabled volumes that culminate in glass walls to overlook the region's waterway. Read more

The upper storey of this house in Kanagawa is supported by timber beams that extend from the outer walls towards an atrium that connects the two levels (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Apollo Architects and Associates has designed Umber, a house in Tokyo clad in black aluminium-zinc alloy coated steel with a hidden courtyard. Read more

The Eysturkommuna Town Hall, designed by Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen, bridges across a river to physically and symbolically connect two formerly separate municipalities on the Faroe Islands. Read more View the full article

Vancouver studio MGB has designed "a contemporary version of a cabin in the woods" comprising stacked glazed boxes overlooking the sea in the Canadian province of British Columbia. (more...) View the full article

The wooden facade of this Toronto property by local practice Williamson Chong Architects is set-back and angled towards a nearby ravine (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has dressed up these wooden tables for Walt Disney Japan to look like characters from children's story books Winnie-the-Pooh. (more...) View the full article