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MINI’s head of design Anders Warming predicts that “we’re not too far away” from driverless cars in this interview with Dezeen, recorded at the launch of the new MINI Paceman in Mallorca (+ audio + transcript). (more…) View the full article

Product news: different modular elements stack up to make these pendant lamps by Croatian design studio Grupa (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture firm Groosman Partners has suspended an office complex beneath the eight-metre-high ceiling of a former industrial machine hall in Rotterdam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A sliding plywood wall divides this OMA-designed art gallery inside a historic building in Hong Kong (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: according to manufacturers Kartell, French designer Philippe Starck has used the world's largest single-piece injection moulding to create this family of furniture shown in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Forward-thinking 
designers are using 3D printing to blow architecture wide open, as Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs reports in this extract from Print Shift, our one-off publication dedicated to the developing technology. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a creative director with skin and hair care brand Aesop, famous for its individual shop interiors. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: the world's largest free-standing museum dedicated to photography is set to be built in Morocco by British firm David Chipperfield Architects. (more...) View the full article

Architects are increasingly designing staircases that double as seating, allowing office workers to congregate between floors, circulation to be turned into event space and homeowners to curl up with a book on the landing. Here are some of our favourite stair/seating configurations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dezeen was named Digital Service of the Year at the IBP Awards in London last night - our third major accolade in two weeks. (more...) View the full article

London-based German designer Jule Waibel has launched a collection of seats made from 100 per cent wool felt that has been three-dimensionally folded under steam to create flexible pleats (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian studio Muller Van Severen will debut its latest pieces of furniture and lighting that "ooze a sort of fruitiness" at London gallery Viaduct next month (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: British architect Norman Foster has unveiled a concept to build a network of elevated pathways above London's railways to create safe car-free cycling routes, following 14 cyclist deaths on the city's streets in 2013. (more...) View the full article

French office Périphériques has redeveloped a site in west Paris by adding apartment blocks with contrasting facades and angular balconies, as well as a nursery with stripy pink and green walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The lower storey of this house in Ontario by Toronto studio Williamson Chong Architects is wrapped by a concrete wall that burrows into a hillside, while the upper floor is an overhanging box clad with red-stained timber (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: architect Daniel Libeskind has designed a chandelier of hand-blown crystal glass shards for Czech brand Lasvit. (more...) View the full article

Cedar cladding and brickwork unite the exterior and interior of this two-bedroom house that Studio 54 Architecture has squeezed between two existing properties in north London. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Yuji Kimura Design has hidden this Tokyo house behind a tall white wall to maintain the residents' privacy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, SCP Contracts and Heatherwick Studio, whose proposal for a pedestrian garden bridge to span the River Thames is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Marc Newson, Lee Broom, Jerry Tate Architects and more... (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2014: British design brand Another Country has collaborated with Canadian designer Dana Cannam on a lighting range that will be unveiled today at Paris trade fair Maison & Objet. (more...) View the full article

Italian designer Marco Guazzini has created a console with drawers that slide along its length to create different configurations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A bank of cherry blossoms are mirrored in the reflective gables of this cafe that angles around a smaller tree in Gifu, Japan, by architecture studio Bandesign (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London's Royal College of Art has been hit by more senior staff changes, with Ab Rogers (above) stepping down as head of the Interior Design programme, Clare Johnston retiring as head of Textiles and Jeremy Myerson departing as head of research institute the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. (more…) View the full article

This water sports centre with a green roof was designed by Guinée*Potin Architectes and is set into a grassy bank by a lake in western France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Transport for London is to fit opening windows on the upper decks of Thomas Heatherwick's new London buses as the designer originally intended, after passengers complained about the heat. (more…) View the full article