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Chinese electric car startup NextEV has launched a vehicle it claims is the fastest electric car in the world. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: London design studio Raw Edges has created a collection of zigzag-patterned furniture using pieces of wood that have been dipped into angled buckets of dye (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This charging cable by product design company Native Union uses a weight to stay anchored in place. Read more View the full article

Stacked boxes clad in stone perch on a rocky outcrop overlooking Durgam Cheruvu Lake in Hyderabad in this house designed by architecture studio Collective Project. Read more

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen will create a dress modelled on splashing water during a live week-long broadcast for fashion film website SHOWstudio next month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A three-storey-high atrium brings natural light and ventilation into the heart of this skinny house in Vietnam by Nguyen Khac Phuoc Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian architect Matt Gibson has created a multi-generational home from a stack of zinc-clad boxes on a narrow infill site in Melbourne. Read more

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: British pavilion curator and Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob says his exhibition aims to revive the "imaginative visions and entrepreneurial spirit" of postwar public housing projects in Britain (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

One of the rooms at this year's Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, was designed by Pinpin Studio to look like the laboratory where Frankenstein's monster was brought into being (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch architect Bastiaan Jongerius was commissioned by six families to design this group of houses around a communal courtyard in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York architect Daniel Libeskind has released plans for a Kurdish museum in Iraq, featuring his signature sharp angles and interlocking volumes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Blue-tinted glass and iridescent stainless steel feature in Chinese design studio Buzao's latest furniture collections, which were launched at Design Shanghai this week. Read more

Curving windows peep above the ground to bring light into this underground car park in South Holland, which is covered in grassy hillocks to replicate a dune landscape (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Building has lost its third steel bolt in three months, developer British Land has revealed. (more…) View the full article

Three Royal College of Art architecture graduates have used stripped scaffolding boards and reclaimed parquet flooring to create a wooden cafe at the school’s Battersea campus in south London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: London designer Lee Broom will transform a street of disused shops into a fake department store to present 20 new products in Milan next month. (more…)

Watch our talk with Coalesse about designing office spaces that people want to work in, rather than have to work in, live from Steelcase's WorkLife Center in London. Read more

Parasitic apartments blocks over fire stations and starter homes floating on waterways are among the 10 winning designs in a New London Architecture competition to find solutions to London's housing shortage (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Handcrafted woven bamboo screens are suspended in sections to cover the ceiling and walls of this Isabel Marant boutique in Bangkok by Parisian studio Ciguë. (more...) View the full article

Dark surfaces and an array of warm materials helped Studio Four create a cosy series of rooms behind the black facade of this Melbourne family home. Read more

Business news: a lawsuit has uncovered details that suggest the 2014 merger between US furniture brand Herman Miller and retailer Design Within Reach may not have technically happened. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Salomé Galjaard of engineering firm Arup says 3D printing building components will result in more efficient and diverse architectural forms (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

East London design brand Hulger has contributed a chandelier made from its new Baby Plumen light bulbs to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

With 20 days to go until entries close for Dezeen Awards 2019, there's still time to get your work seen by some of the biggest names in the industry. Read more

Walls of books fold around a wooden staircase in this renovation and extension to a north London home by Hackney studio Platform 5 Architects. (more...) View the full article