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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

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for Part II assistants at Duggan Morris Architects, whose renovation and extension of a nineteenth century farm building is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has put the finishing touches to the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre – a new £135 million wing at the British Museum in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Boyarsky Murphy Architects sandwiched this glass-fronted family residence between two terraced houses in west London, on a site less than three metres wide at the front. (more...) View the full article

This chair by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Govert Flint allows the user to control their computer cursor with a range of body movements (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: architect and professor Sawako Kaijima explains how she created a research and gallery space with "completely diffused lighting" in our next exclusive movie from this year's Inside Festival. (more...) View the full article

News: a concert hall with a spiky roof in Poland and a terracotta winery buried beneath an Italian vineyard are among the five finalists in the running for the European Union's 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Collages and sketches of designs by the late architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický have been collected together for an exhibition at the Architectural Association in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interview: architectural education is too expensive and too lengthy while the profession is underpaid and under-appreciated, according to the head of a new school due to open in London later this year. Dezeen spoke to London School of Architecture's Will Hunter about his plans to overhaul the way architecture is taught. (more…) View the full article

Instead of applying coloured pigments to these vases, Scottish designer Dean Brown has placed the powder in glass tubes and suspended it away from the undecorated surfaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Ori Elisar has developed a bacterial ink and grown typographical symbols in a petri dish. Here are more stories featuring microbes, including a lamp powered by glowing octopus bacteria (pictured), clothes grown from single-cell organisms and cheese made from the sweat and tears of celebrities. See all our stories about design using bacteria » View the full article