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This black and blue sports centre in Western Australia was designed by ARM Architecture as a pixellated cluster of chunky cubes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen will create a dress modelled on splashing water during a live week-long broadcast for fashion film website SHOWstudio next month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: a London cycling organisation has come up with a concept for a lorry with no blindspot to reduce the number of cyclists killed in collisions. (more...) View the full article

News: a wristband by San Francisco electronics brand Jawbone that monitors how you move, sleep and eat has now launched in Europe. (more...) View the full article

The big news this week was Toyo Ito's Pritzker Prize win and you can check out his key projects in our slideshow. Scroll on for more highlights of the week in design and architecture, plus the track of the week from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

News: twelve international firms including OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, BIG and SANAA have been shortlisted to design a new headquarters and visitor centre for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden. (more...) View the full article

Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed a glass bottle and identity for a scheme that encourages hotels to filter water on site rather than importing it in plastic bottles. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a product designer with Mathieu Lehanneur in Paris, whose projects include a creative studio for teenagers at the Centre Pompidou (pictured above). See more stories about Mathieu Lehanneur on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Foster + Partners drew inspiration from Bedouin tents to create a canopy of domes over a new airport terminal that opened yesterday in Amman, Jordan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Hackney studio Sample and Hold 3D-scanned a living horse for a new sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger. (more...) View the full article

Rooms and surfaces are generated from a complex web of hexagons at this contemporary arts centre in Córdoba, Spain, by Madrid office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (photography is by Roland Halbe). (more...) View the full article

Italian architects DAP Studio added a perforated aluminium tower to this former chapel in the Italian town of Lonate Ceppino, converting the entire building into a public library. (more...) View the full article

Product news: an extra surface swings out from underneath this coffee table by Italian designer Roberto Paoli (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has developed a concept to introduce natural ecosystems into cities with designs for "farmscrapers" made from piles of giant glass pebbles for a site in Shenzhen, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Ross Lovegrove will unveil a concept car he has designed for French car manufacturer Renault in Milan next month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with Pritzker-winner Toyo Ito - whose Dome in Odate (above) features in our slideshow of his key projects - along with Hella Jongerius for KLM, Coop Himmelb(l)au in China and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 144 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dutch office MVRDV and French architects de Alzua+ have won a competition to re-masterplan the French town of Villeneuve d'Ascq and are proposing a building that cantilevers over a motorway. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob argues that great architecture can't be evaluated in terms of money or cultural entertainment, but must "speak directly to ideology and love". (more...) View the full article

Design Indaba 2013: glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps were among the concepts to make highways safer while saving money and energy presented by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has completed a temporary pavilion made from cardboard tubes at the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: earlier this month we kicked off our Dezeen and MINI World Tour at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town. Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs rounds up the highlights of the week. (more...) View the full article

Shimmering steel panels chequer the facade of this office building at an aluminium plant outside Buenos Aires by Argentinean architects Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden. (more...) View the full article

News: concrete made with unprocessed sea sand has been found in at least 15 buildings under construction in Shenzhen – including what will be China's tallest building when completed – putting them at risk of collapse. (more...) View the full article

Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed the Dalian International Conference Center, a contorted steel building in China with conference halls bursting through its facade. (more...) View the full article

News: a nominee for the Design Museum's Design of the Year award has caused controversy by presenting 3D-printed copies of two of the other finalists' work. (more...) View the full article