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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

Milan 2015: with the week almost over, visitors have been scrambling to see the exhibitions located in Milan's impressive venues – from grand palazzi to disused industrial spaces. Click through to see our pick of images on #milanogram2015 from Dezeen's last full day in the city. (more…) View the full article

News: architect Maurice Shapero has released plans for a cross-shaped skyscraper on the waterfront in Liverpool, England. (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Boston office over,under have teamed up to design Central America's largest museum of Mayan history and culture for a site in Guatemala City. (more...) View the full article

Every attendee at our Dezeen Day conference in London on 30 October will receive a free Herschel backpack worth £60. Read more

A bamboo framework filled with plants surrounds the brick core of this sanitation facility designed by H&P Architects for a school in rural Vietnam (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Format Elf Architekten added a pattern of hexagonal holes to the long aluminium facade of this office building in Germany to control the amount of daylight entering the interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British architect Norman Foster has revealed details of his firm's design for the offices of global media giant Bloomberg, currently under construction in the City of London. (more…) View the full article

Bleacher-style seating, traditionally found at sports grounds, is increasingly popping up inside and over the top of office spaces and public buildings. The stairs designed for sitting on feature in Snøhetta's newly-opened SFMOMA extension and on Napur Architect's skateboard-ramp design for a Budapest museum. We've added these and more of the best examples to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more bleachers in our archive View the full article

Engineer and inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for a hairdryer that is silent to human ears and controls its own temperature to protect hair from heat damage (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The criss-crossing bands of these running shoes by Nike are inspired by a Chinese finger trap. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural designer at Archi-Union Architects, whose tea house and library constructed in the backyard of their studio in Shanghai is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Pritzker Prize-winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has revealed new images of his first mosque in Melbourne, showing a roof covered in rows of dramatic lantern-like skylights (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The 200th issue of Dezeen Mail includes MAD's mountainous complex of skyscrapers and a table for cats and their owners, as well as a tribute to Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein, plus the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. We're also celebrating 200,000 followers on Twitter. Follow us for all the latest headlines and comment » Read Dezeen Mail issue 200 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this year's What Design Can Do conference will focus on European identity and how the continent can learn from new initiatives emerging in Africa (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sheets of plywood were layered on top of each other to create the ceiling of this Parisian salon, which local architect Joshua Florquin designed to represent sunny forests and natural environments (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects and planners should study refugee camps like the Jungle in France, according to architecture undergraduate Sophie Flinder, who has completed a dissertation on the way the camp has become a fully functioning town with its own culture (+ transcript). (more…) View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern extension, a gravity-defying observation tower (pictured) and Jonathan Ive's swipe at contemporary designers feature in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 304 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Milan 2016: in our final movie from Nike's The Nature of Motion show, designer Bertjan Pot explains how he created a series of "resting pods" by weaving basket-like structures around inner tubes from different vehicles. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to register to MADE Labs' architecture and design training programme, which takes place in Sicily throughout July and August. Read more

East London designer Lee Broom is contributing one of his lights made from crystal decanters to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

The work of Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti is the focus of a major exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Curator Salvatore Licitra, who is also Ponti's nephew, picks out five of the most important designs in the show. Read more

A courtyard divides this house that Pitsou Kedem Architects has built in the Savyon district of Israel, but elevated walkways and ramps connect the two sides. Read more

Google's new Tel Aviv headquarters include a meeting area filled with orange trees, workstations on a make-believe beach and slides connecting different floors (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Sydney studio CHROFI has won a competition to create a new conservatory at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra with plans for a raised cube dressed in curtain-like glazing. Read more View the full article