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Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti with coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes. (more...) View the full article

The jagged outline of a maple leaf informed the profile of this shooting range in Ontario, Canada, which was designed by Berlin firm Magma Architecture for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. (more…) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a senior product designer with Faye Toogood, whose interactive installation for design brand Established & Sons is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: autonomous vehicles in urban areas could be up to thirty years away, according to Audi's Thomas Müller, the engineer leading the development of the brand's driverless sports car (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Chunky wooden columns and beams support the sloping timber ceiling of this small pharmacy by Japanese studio Ninkipen! in the city of Ogaki (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The New York branch of architecture firm OMA has unveiled its design for the extension to the city's SANAA-designed New Museum. Read more

Apollo Architects & Associates has completed a top-heavy building in Japan's Aichi Prefecture containing both an art gallery and a family residence (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has designed a pair of office buildings for Warner Bros Entertainment in Los Angeles, to resemble "icebergs floating along the freeway". Read more

Dutch firm Mecanoo has completed a library and cultural centre in Kongsberg, Norway, which centres around an atrium with concrete staircases running across its walls and through its centre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, new photos offered a first look at Kanye West's homeless housing and Stefano Boeri unveiled his designs for vertical-forest apartments in Egypt. Read more

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News: OMA has presented a vision to transform a former tobacco plant in Louisville, USA, into a hub for growing and selling food, featuring an edible garden, a coffee roastery and a recycling centre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Young designers were among the standout exhibitors at the second edition of Collectible, the Brussels fair dedicated to contemporary collectible design. Dezeen's Anna Winston selects her highlights. Read more

Squishy foam spikes featured on garments and the catwalk at fashion designer Mary Katrantzou's Autumn Winter 2015 show during London Fashion Week. (more…) View the full article

Bright white shutters concertina across the glazed facade of this Porto home designed and occupied by local architects Cláudia Monteiro and Vitor Oliveira. (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Swedish-French design duo Färg & Blanche has created a small padded chair for Swedish furniture brand Gärsnäs. (more...) View the full article

News: sportswear brand Nike is hoping to release real versions of the self-lacing shoes from sci-fi movie Back to the Future II by the end of this year. (more…) View the full article

British company Garçon Wines has come up with a new way to package wine that cuts back on the costs and carbon emissions of transport. Read more

Garments in this retail interior by Australian design studio Sibling are displayed on copper clothes rails and stacked wooden cubes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Raw concrete and timber boxes create rooms inside these gabled blocks, added to a hotel on a vineyard in rural Portugal by architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ever judged a book by its cover? Amsterdam creative studio Moore has reversed the well-known idiom – designing a sleeve that scans your face and won't open unless approached without prejudice (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has launched a tea set made of spun brass. (more...) View the full article

Music: French director Benjamin Artola's hand-drawn music video for Grand Soleil's track Misfits transports a man out of a traffic jam onto a trippy journey through seas, deserts and space (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Terracotta-coloured tiles clad this house on Belgian farmland, designed by architect Pascal François to match the region's traditional agricultural architecture "without the slightest ambition to be trendy" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designed as an annex for a 1960s log cabin, this angular timber and cast-concrete structure by Maddison Architects is nestled among the undergrowth of a forest in Victoria, Australia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article