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This wristband by sports brand Nike tracks your movement throughout the day and gives you points for being more active. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our third daily TV show from Dezeen Studio in Milan features Tom Dixon showing us the mini-factory he’s set up at MOST to make furniture that will be given away to the public, while Paola Antonelli, design curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, gives us her tips for the key shows at Milan this year. We also have a report from the Hacked Milan show at La Rinascente and Hanna Nova Beatrice of Form magazine tells us about the vibrant design scene in Scandinavia. There’s also a chance to win a Jambox as well as our latest (highly inaccurate as it turns out) weather report. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: OMA have created a stage set for an ancient outdoor theatre in Sicily that dates back to the fifth century BC. (more…) View the full article

London-based architects Serie and Singapore architects Multiply have designed an extension to a law court in Singapore with terracotta-clad courtrooms stacked up inside a giant cage. (more…) View the full article

Gingham and lace patterns have screen-printed onto the tables and shelves of this Breton crêperie in west London designed by Paul Crofts Studio. (more…) View the full article

We relaunched Dezeen Jobs last week with a new look, and to celebrate we’ve introduced a special offer for a half-price recruitment advert. To get your discount, pick up a voucher this week from Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street WC2, or one of our pop-ups at 100% Design (stand IP15) or designjunction (stand B6). View the full article

Beijing Design Week: traditional Chinese motifs inspired these screens made of steel that’s normally used to reinforce buildings by design studio MICROmacro Lab. (more…) View the full article

The trend for extreme cantilevers continues with this house in Croatia by architect Idis Turato, where one floor dramatically overhangs the other. (more…) View the full article

You can get up to 30% off selected clearance lines in the winter sale at Dezeen Watch Store. The sale runs until 2 January so there is one week left to shop our fantastic deals. Included in the selection is the colourful Grow by Andrea Morgante for Alessi (above). Was £84, now £58.80. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Danish design studio KiBiSi used a compound of stone and resin to produce these candle holders for Danish design brand Menu (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The animated animals in this app by illustrator Christoph Niemann react to prodding fingers (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The designers of a shape-shifting house have now developed a folding table that swings open to change shape from a square to an equilateral triangle. (more...) View the full article

Product news: cable clutter is hidden away under the lid of this extension lead from Swiss design brand Punkt. (more...) View the full article

This elliptical chapel near Oxford by London studio Niall McLaughlin Architects contains a group of arching timber columns behind its textured stone facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New images have been released showing Herzog & de Meuron's Jade Signature residential tower for Miami - including the first full-height rendering of the 198 metre-high building. (more...) View the full article

The four buildings that make up this house on Scotland's Isle of Skye were designed by Dualchas Architects to reference the shape and appearance of an old black shed found nearby (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Each outfit in this series crafted from paper by students in Estonia represents a different month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

OMA's completed Shenzhen Stock Exchange (pictured) and a horseshoe-shaped hotel by MAD lead this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 173 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Wiley to give away five copies of a book about the construction of the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi. (more...) View the full article

News: the architecture and design department at the V&A museum in London has announced a new "rapid response" strategy for collecting objects as soon as they become newsworthy, to reflect the changing way fast-moving global events influence society (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

This blackened-timber boathouse and pavilion designed by Weiss Architecture occupies a cedar jetty that projects out from the rocky coastline of an Ontario island (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: spectacle-wearing tech fans will soon be able to use Google Glass for the first time after the tech giant today unveiled four designs for frames to hold prescription lenses (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Boston engineering firm Spike Aerospace is building a windowless supersonic jet that will be able to fly from London to New York in under four hours, and will offer passengers digital views of their surroundings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Future Everything conference to give two readers the chance to win a guest-list pass for two days of talks and lectures in Manchester next week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architects will soon be able to walk around inside 3D sketches of their projects and edit their designs as they go, according to the team behind the revolutionary Gravity Sketch 3D drawing pad. (more...) View the full article