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News: OMA has seen off competition from BIG and Buro Ole Scheeren to win a competition to expand the Berlin headquarters of multimedia firm Axel Springer. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: experimental Dutch textile designer Bart Hess played on ideas of mass production, bespoke design and the amount of human input needed to sustain the creative industries in an installation at Atelier Clerici for Milan design week. (more...) View the full article

A faceted roof garden sits atop the stone-clad box that comprises this sports centre in France by Archi5 and Tecnova Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British high-street brand Heal's has released its latest furniture collections, with the themes Future Craft, Modern British and Industrial Chic. (more...) View the full article

News: the California department of motor vehicles has introduced new road safety rules, requiring all vehicles on its roads to have a steering wheel and brake pedal – including Google's fleet of driverless cars. (more...) View the full article

Food design studio Bompas & Parr has made whisky tasting more theatrical by using a church organ to heighten the perception of different flavours while drinking. (more...) View the full article

Not content with releasing one umbrella this month, Japanese studio Nendo has created a lightweight folding umbrella with a carbon-fibre frame and a cover tucked into its handle. (more...) View the full article

Design Indaba 2015: the design industry has lost touch with its social and cultural values and is producing "too much shit design", according to Hella Jongerius. (more…) View the full article

Business news: design e-commerce platform Fab.com has been bought by manufacturing company PCH, which plans to sell unique products alongside the website's existing offering of furniture and accessories. (more…) View the full article

These new shots by London-based photographer Peter Guenzel offer a look inside Herzog & de Meuron's unfinished Hamburg concert hall, which is still two years away from completion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A plywood storage wall stores and displays furniture, ingredients and cooking apparatus at this Paris culinary workshop by architecture studio Septembre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Students from the Collaborative and Industrial Design program at Helsinki's Aalto University have created five new concepts for coffee machines and other household products, aiming to "simplify and clarify" existing models (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A team at MIT Media Lab has used bacteria to design a "bio-skin" fabric that peels back in reaction to sweat and humidity (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Water is the only bi-product expelled from the exhaust of UK manufacturer Riversimple's hydrogen-powered electric vehicle. (more…) View the full article

London studio APA Architects has created a set of collaborative offices for credit card company Barclaycard at its headquarters in Northampton, England, which are designed for a specific way of working (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A white holiday home in Okinawa by British designer John Pawson was popular this week, so we've gone back through our archive and pinned dozens of examples of white houses to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more white houses in our archive View the full article

Today is Icelandic Independence Day and we're celebrating by revisiting some of the country's best architecture and design projects on Dezeen! Examples include a wooden cabin split into asymmetric apartments (pictured), and playground equipment made from rubbish washed up onto the shores of the island nation. See more Icelandic architecture and design » View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for a salesperson/office manager at the New York trend-forecasting firm Edelkoort, which recently introduced a hybrid design department at Parsons School of Design in New York. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This small wooden cabin by London-based architect Sini Kamppari perches among trees on a granite ridge, offering views of a lake in southeast Finland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Istanbul Design Biennial to offer 20 readers the chance to win a free guided tour of this year's exhibition (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: colossal public artworks like Thomas Heatherwick's interlinking staircases for New York are the architectural monuments of our time, says Aaron Betsky. (more…) View the full article

This week saw French designer Philippe Starck and American imaging company Kodak both venture into smartphone design. Read more View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with Sony to give away one of its Glass Sound wireless speakers. Read more View the full article

Over 5,000 aluminium panels are arranged to create the perforated facade of this commercial building by Klein Dytham Architecture, which overlooks one of Tokyo's most iconic intersections. Read more View the full article

This week we're highlighting 10 popular home interiors from our from Pinterest boards that feature an all-white colour palette. Read more View the full article