Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our third report from New York, Willy Wong, chief creative officer for the city's marketing and tourism agency, introduces the new NYCxDesign festival and explains why the city is starting to put more money behind its design industries. More
This week on Dezeen the focus has been back on 3D printing, with a prototype of the world's first printed room (pictured), laser-sintered accessories to fit any body shape and a custom cast for fractured bones. Read on for a roundup of the week in architecture and design plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More
News: leading Italian furniture brand Driade has been rescued from bankruptcy by a private finance company. More
News: Architectural Association graduate John Naylor has won this year's Foster + Partners Prize with his proposal to introduce bamboo to the construction industry in Haiti, which is still struggling to recover from the 2010 earthquake. More
3D-printed casts for fractured bones could replace the usual bulky, itchy and smelly plaster or fibreglass ones in this conceptual project by Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill. More
News: Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design a visual culture museum in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District. More
A knot-shaped rooftop will be used as a vegetable garden at this kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects that's under construction in Dong Nai, Vietnam (+ slideshow). More
Danish architecture studio BIG has completed a sunken sports hall where an arching wooden roof doubles up as a hilly courtyard (+ slideshow). More
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Viktor Westerdahl has devised a fantasy scenario where the discovery of a new liquid energy cues construction of a remote city in the middle of the Indian Ocean. More
Product news: these coffee tables with interlocking wooden legs by German studio Ding3000 have been put into production by Danish brand Normann Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More
