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Milan 2012: new Italian brand Discipline launch their inaugural collection in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

London studio Pengelly Design has created an airline seat that converts into a 2.2-metre-long bed for Virgin Atlantic. (more…) View the full article

A cafe, playroom and gallery are tucked beneath the artificial topography of this undulating public square in Mexico by architect Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Balmond Studio, Rick Mather Architects and the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with UXUS, Lane Crawford and more… (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Tredje Natur is redesigning a Copenhagen neighbourhood to better handle the floods expected as climate change leads to fewer but heavier rain storms. (more…) View the full article

The latticed facade of this Tokyo bookstore by Klein Dytham Architecture comprises hundreds of interlocking T-shapes that subtly reference the logo of entertainment retailer Tsutaya (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week: designer Kiki van Eijk presents a cabinet that opens like a giant sewing box at her studio in Eindhoven this week as part of Dutch Design Week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

These delicate bowls by Japanese design studio Nendo are so thin they quiver in the wind (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Mathias Gmachl of Loop.pH explains how the London design studio's large-scale lighting installations help people relate to cutting-edge research in molecular biology in our next Designed in Hackney Day movie. (more...) View the full article

This house for a surgeon in Chiba, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates contains courtyards with elevated wooden walkways and glass walls behind its thick concrete exterior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest version of Record by architect and designer Achille Castiglioni comes with a striking black face, and both yellow and purple interchangeable leather straps. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in the second of two columns exploring the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob looks at how Google Maps is reshaping cities while Apple, Facebook and Amazon are reshaping the natural landscape by building their own headquarters as self-contained ecosystems. (more...) View the full article

News: the UK government wants to ban drivers from using Google's augmented reality eyewear ahead of the 2014 release, amid safety concerns. (more...) View the full article

Homeware retailer Made.com has opened a showroom in London's Soho, featuring a shopfront based on a pin-art toy and a series of domestic sets combined with full-scale video projections (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Jean Nouvel's One Central Park residential tower in Sydney will feature the world's tallest vertical garden by inventor of living walls, Patrick Blanc. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: French artist Bertrand Lanthiez created this audiovisual installation by projecting white light along criss-crossing woollen threads (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

At the launch of his giant De Rotterdam building last week, architect Rem Koolhaas discussed his home city and his latest contribution to it. "This building is not the same from any angle," he said. "We consider that not so much an innovation but a new ambition in architecture" (+ transcript). (more...) View the full article

Sou Fujimoto is the nineteenth architect to feature on our festive calendar. The Japanese architect, who claims to design structures "in between" architecture and nature, designed a cloud-like structure for this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and previously completed a tiny wooden house built from a stack of chunky timber beams (pictured). See more architecture by Sou Fujimoto » View the full article

A large circular mirror reflects a tree planted in the centre of this Osaka cafe by Japanese studio Ninkipen! (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects has produced visualisations imagining the fictional scenes before and after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals haphazardly plunged into a lake where artist Jack Daws was building a house on stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A doorway is the only opening in the faceted concrete facade of this family residence in Tokyo by architecture studio MDS. (more...) View the full article

This movie by Mexican film agency Nation tours the school of art, design and architecture that Japanese architect Tadao Ando completed last year at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. (more...) View the full article

Designers Reed and Delphine Krakoff have created a series of "archetypical" seats in grey felt for British brand Established & Sons. (more...) View the full article

News: insurance company Lloyd's of London could leave its landmark headquarters designed by Richard Rogers, according to today's Sunday Times. (more...) View the full article

News: design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have been appointed to design the trains for Europe's biggest railway and infrastructure project. (more...) View the full article