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The colour of light emitted by this lamp can be controlled using syringes filled with red, green and blue ink (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

We've reached the final edition of our festive A-Zdvent calendar of architects, which wouldn't be complete without Zaha Hadid. The architect's recent built projects include the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Azerbaijan (pictured) and a new exhibition space for the Serpentine Gallery in London, but she is also working on a stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and a Miami skyscraper. See more architecture by Zaha Hadid » View the full article

A wood and steel chair created by Danish Modernist designer Hans J. Wegner in 1955 has been put into production for the first time by furniture brand Carl Hansen & Son. (more...) View the full article

News: as the UK government today unveiled its first independent architecture report, project leader Terry Farrell admitted to Dezeen that public expectations for healthcare buildings "are low" and that architects don't have enough influence to change the status quo (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Movie: chief design officer for Philips Lighting Rogier van der Heide explains how advances in LED technology are enabling lighting to be integrated into the surfaces of walls, floors and ceilings. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: this year's biennale avoids contemporary architecture and has "nothing to do with design," curator Rem Koolhaas said yesterday while conducting a preview tour.(more...) View the full article

The shortlist for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize and Airbnb's rebrand fiasco lead this week's Dezeen Mail issue 211. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 211 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a waste incinerator and power plant in the Danish city of Roskilde with a spotty perforated facade that lights up at night as if there's a fire burning within (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This giant cube that appears to have landed on its side in the mountains is a proposal by Czech studio Atelier 8000 for a facilities building in Slovakia's High Tatras peaks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: designers including Marti Guixè and Stefano Giovannoni will be among the teaching staff of a food design course being co-developed by one of Italy's leading design schools – an increasingly popular subject area for design education (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has designed a building shaped like a field of sand dunes to house the headquarters of Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah. (more…) View the full article

The bulbous Up5 Chair by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce follows on from the 20 iconic seat designs we've already featured for our A-Zdvent calendar. (more…) View the full article

Taipei studio Q-Lab has completed a sports centre in Taiwan that appears to be shrouded under a huge faceted hood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: Readers thought Apple's temporary space in Milan – designed to showcase its new smartwatch – looked "shoddy". Read on for more on this and the other most commented stories on Dezeen this week. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: our roundup of this week's top stories kicks off with Zaha Hadid's mountain-top museum (pictured), and also includes Daniel Libeskind's pointy tower proposal for Jerusalem. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: Dublin studio Grafton Architects has installed rows of textured concrete monoliths inside the V&A museum's tapestry gallery, referencing an ancient script and prehistoric standing stones. (more…) View the full article

Following the death of legendary musician David Bowie, illustrators and graphic designers are posting their images interpreting his iconic style and flamboyant fashion. (more…) View the full article

French designer Patrick Norguet has paired raw concrete and sheet metal with colourful ceiling-mounted light boxes to create an unusual interior for this McDonald's on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. (more…) View the full article

A competition-winning proposal to transform Manhattan's Central Park into a sunken landscape (pictured) leads this week's edition of Dezeen Mail, followed by Herzog & de Meuron's Vitra gallery and "thigh gap" jewellery designed to challenge idealised beauty. Read Dezeen Mail issue 299 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

New York-based Studio Dror has proposed adding another huge domed structure to Montreal's Expo 67 site on Île Sainte-Hélène, where Buckminster Fuller's Biosphere has sat for almost 50 years (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Pre-rusted steel plates are arranged in a spiral to form the walls of this public toilet created by Miro Rivera Architects in a park in Austin, Texas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Festival of Architecture 2016: stainless steel rods support a tactile system of spinning bamboo pinwheels inside this east London pavilion by design studio Five Line Projects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch design office Studio Modijefsky has filled an Amsterdam bar with tropical plants and green surfaces to create a rainforest-like feel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a pavilion on the bank of Shanghai's Huangpu River, with thin metal columns surrounding a glass-walled room shaped like a cartoon cloud (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Models by Japanese architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto are the focus of a museum that has opened in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article