News: next month's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York will be the first major design fair to place 3D printing and digital fabrication at the core of its programme, with a four-day series of workshops introducing the hardware and software that could change the face of design, manufacturing and distribution (+ interview). More »

News: crafts will no longer be considered part of the creative industries under proposals published by the UK government this week. More »

News: online design retailer Fab.com has announced it will design its own range of furniture and homeware to be sold alongside its existing inventory. More »

News: Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have won a competition to transform the central railway area of Bari, a city in southern Italy, with a proposal to build a three-kilometre-long elevated park over the track. More »

News: Herzog & de Meuron has been chosen to design the new National Library of Israel in Jerusalem after the initial competition winner was dismissed over a copyright dispute. More »

News: Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik, Iceland, by Henning Larsen Architects and artist Olafur Eliasson has won this year's European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award. More »

News: a bill to extend copyright protection on industrial design from 25 years to the length of the author's life plus 70 years has today become law in the UK. More »

News: architects Broadway Malyan have been chosen to masterplan a new 196-hectare residential and commercial district south of Kuala Lumpur. More »

News: researchers at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have rearranged the letters on a split-screen keyboard to almost double users' typing speed on a tablet. More »

News: UK government ministers are to scrap the draft design and technology syllabus for secondary schools amid claims by industry figures including inventor James Dyson (pictured) that the curriculum had been "diluted" with skills such as cooking and gardening. More »

News: American furniture brand Herman Miller has agreed to acquire New York-based textile manufacturer Maharam in a deal worth about £101 million. More »

News: Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects has designed a headquarters for software giant Microsoft as part of plans for a new university and business district north of Copenhagen, Denmark. More »

News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named its top ten sustainable projects of the year, including a university building made from timber, concrete and Corten steel in Minnesota (above) and a series of prefabricated houses in Tennessee. More »

News: campaigners are calling on the UK government to protect and expand minimum housing standards for space and natural light after an RIBA report revealed the average one-bed new build is only the size of a London Underground carriage. More »