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Milan 2014: London studio Doshi Levien has designed an armchair for Danish brand Hay with a curving high-backed seat that resembles a traditional Japanese fan. (more...) View the full article

Ector Hoogstad Architecten has completed a three-storey bicycle park to store 12,656 bikes below Utrecht Central Station in the Netherlands. Read more

Product news: Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa will launch a stackable wooden stool with a stainless steel footrest for Italian manufacturer Plank in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Volkswagen has rolled out its latest fully electric production car at the same time as an updated logo and brand design to mark "the start of a new era" for the German automaker. Read more

German design studio Aekae has abstracted the logo of Swiss accessory brand QWSTION to form textural laser-cut patterns within the outer fabric of these bags. (more...) View the full article

Central Saint Martins fashion student Fredrik Tjærandsen has presented giant balloons that deflate to form dresses on the catwalk. Read more

News: Jony Ive is now more important to Apple than Steve Jobs was when he died and the company "would be in trouble if he left", according to the author of a new biography of the computer giant's chief designer (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Mazes, slides, nets, fireman's poles and climbing walls all feature inside this Copenhagen community centre, designed by architecture studios MVRDV and Adept to encourage adults to be more active (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré used sick and dead trees to build this pavilion at the Tippet Rise Art Centre in Montana, USA. Read more

Designer Ernesto D Morales has proposed a spoon made out of magnifying glass as part of a series of absurd products for his fictional company Object Solutions (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

NASA is planning tests of an experimental electric aeroplane, which it believes could lead to reduced flight times and carbon emissions for future air travel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Swedish designer Gunilla Allard's Cajal sofas and armchairs feature slender tubular steel frames that support chunky upholstered seats (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio MORQ has built an almost windowless house surrounding a plant-filled courtyard from rammed concrete in Perth, Australia. Read more

A team of student designers and engineers from the RCA and Imperial College have designed an open-source alternative to GPS, called Aweigh, that does not rely on satellites. Read more

Citroën's vision for the future of intercity travel is a fully electric and autonomous "living room on wheels", which takes cues from aviation design. Read more

Australian firm Charles Wright Architects used a mixture of precast and in-situ concrete to construct a house that can withstand the most powerful cyclones in northern Queensland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This gabled concrete visitor centre by local architects Iseppi/Kurath is perched on the edge of a 60-metre gorge in the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish studio SelgasCano has completed a concept bookstore in east London, with handmade wooden bookshelves based on the fictional Library of Babel and a strict no-phone policy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A wooden ladder leads up to a set of white cabinets filled with animal bones, plants and a preserved tarantula in this science laboratory designed by Charles Tashima Architecture for a London primary school. Read more View the full article

Sports brand Nike has unveiled the first boots for American football players with 3D-printed studs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A trio of Danish architects has won a competition to design Denmark's first new-build architecture school, a sprawling campus on the outskirts of Aarhus. Read more View the full article

Movie: in this exclusive video, the late Zaha Hadid's long-standing business partner Patrik Schumacher reflects on meeting the architect for the first time as a student and the impact of her early paintings. (more…) View the full article

Job of the week this week is a position as an interior designer at Universal Design Studio in London. For more roles in architecture and design see our full selection of positions at Dezeen Jobs. (more…) View the full article

Lebanese-American designer Nabil Issa has launched his debut line of furniture, which includes a throne-like golden chair made from brass. Read more

A row of colourful louvres wraps around classrooms and playgrounds at this concrete kindergarten near Pamplona in Spain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article