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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

A shade of teal inspired by the landscape surrounding Scotland has been named the World's Favourite Colour, following an international survey carried out by paper company GF Smith. Read more View the full article

Icelandic designer Anna Thorunn exploits the "natural shape" of the circle in this set of rounded tray tables and candle holders. Read more View the full article

Inspired by a brutalist soap, we curated a Pinterest board of the best-designed grooming products, including 13 reinterpretations of the shaving brush and an aluminium straight razor aimed at millennials. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

Over 30 artists and designers have called for their work to be removed from the Design Museum's Hope to Nope exhibition, after the London gallery hosted an event for one of the world's biggest defence companies. Read more View the full article

American design studio BHDM has chosen warm materials and Spanish-influenced motifs for the interior of this bar, located at the top of the AC Hotel near New York's Times Square. Read more View the full article

Chinese designers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu discuss the disappearing village cultures of China in their lecture at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019. Watch the livestream here from 12.00pm UK time. Read more

Medusa Group has designed Akademeia High School in Warsaw with a large central courtyard surrounded by stepped seating that leads to a herb garden roof. Read more

Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group at MIT has designed an installation using the skin pigment melanin — and says it will inevitably be used in architecture. Read more

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly features Jeanne Gang as Time Magazine's most influential architect, proposals to replace Notre-Dame Cathedral's spire and a coastal house in Devon. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

London's V&A shows what the future of food could look like in its latest exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate, which takes visitors through a full food cycle from compost to plate. Read more