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German designer Johanna Schmeer has created a set of traps for catching genetically modified mice. (more…) View the full article

Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our end of summer sale now features three of Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro’s designs; Gravity, Orbit and Aurora. Each watch tells time in its own unique way without using traditional hands. Gravity (above) uses two coloured rings which resemble rotating comets to indicate the time. Now only £80.00 (UK and EU) or £66.67 (rest of the world). Get yours here » (more…) View the full article

Belgian designer Carl de Smet of Noumenon has developed high-tech foam furniture that can be squashed to 5% of its original size for easy transportation and then expanded “like popcorn” by heating it up (+ movie + interview). (more…) View the full article

Serbian designer Miloš Milivojevic has installed a tree-like mobile phone charger powered by the sun in a park in Belgrade. (more…) View the full article

We're now looking back at our top five stories in October and sailing into an easy first place is the yacht designed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before his death, while the news was dominated by architecture in China and the integration of digital and industrial design at Apple. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Valentine's Day is just around the corner and we have two watches by Mr Jones Watches of London that will make the perfect gift for your loved one. (more...) View the full article

Construction is now underway on a Zaha Hadid-designed cultural complex on the edge of a lake in Changsha, China (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Ambra Medda, the director and co-founder of Design Miami/Basel, has announced the launch of L'ArcoBaleno, a website offering unique and limited edition pieces for sale alongside reports from the design world. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: a pizza crust stuffed with a hot dog could be the ultimate expression of contemporary design culture, suggests Sam Jacob in this week's opinion column. (more...) View the full article

Huge clerestory windows reveal the exposed timber frame of this school sports hall in Kobe, Japan, by architecture firm Takenaka Corporation (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German car brand BMW has launched its first fully electric production car called the BMW i3 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Volcanic stone walls feature a geometric pattern of copper-leaf triangles inside this restaurant and nightclub on the banks of the Seine river in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An OMA-designed housing complex comprising 31 apartment blocks stacked diagonally across one another is nearing completion in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: as protests continue against private shuttle buses for tech company workers in San Francisco, Mimi Zeiger asks how designers and architects should engage with the fight. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an interior designer at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, which includes the five-storey VitraHaus showroom designed by Herzog & de Meuron (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A skin of chestnut shingles covers the facade of this multipurpose building at a school in the French town of Hostens by Dauphins (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designers including Piet Hein Eek and Roderick Vos are brought together with workshops for makers with disabilities in a new initiative called Social Label (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Norwegian architecture studio TYIN Tegnestue has completed a sanitary building for an orphanage in Thailand featuring an angled bamboo facade that provides shelter from the tropical sun (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Danish studio BIG has been granted $335 million to upgrade Lower Manhattan's storm defences, as one of six winners in the Rebuild by Design initiative to revive parts of the USA struck by Hurricane Sandy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German architecture office Auer Weber has extended an astronomic research facility near Munich by adding interconnected cylinders with hollow centres and curvy corridors raised up on stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based Studio Tilt used 17th and 18th-century coffee houses as a reference for the design of this canal-side cafe and cultural venue (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: book publisher Laurence King is giving Dezeen readers a 35 per cent discount on its Detail series to celebrate the addition of two new titles to the collection. (more...) View the full article

Behind a traditional limestone facade, Heneghan Peng's new architecture school for the University of Greenwich is a four-storey composition of steel and glass centred around a double-height critique room (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Feature: Zaha Hadid was in a garrulous mood at a panel discussion in Miami earlier this month, discussing the lack of women in architecture, describing her "untraditional" education and recalling the stressful early days of her practice, when "there were years when I didn't sleep for four nights in a row". (more…) View the full article