Battery-farmed chickens could be tricked into thinking they are roaming free if dressed in virtual reality headsets designed as a tongue-in-cheek proposal by US company Second Livestock (+ interview). More
New York 2014: Dezeen style editor Dan Howarth picks his top five designers and studios not to miss at New York's Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition, which opens today. More
This week world famous architects including Sou Fujimoto and Wang Shu designed bus stops for a tiny Austrian village and Snøhetta's September 11 Memorial Museum structure was inaugurated by US president Barack Obama. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More
News: home-rental website Airbnb is causing a sea-change in attitudes towards design by allowing people to experience stylish interiors first hand rather than via magazines and websites, according to designer Ilse Crawford. More
Milan 2014: Oki Sato of Nendo explains the concept behind the SU stool, which is based on American furniture company Emeco's iconic Navy Chair and features interchangeable seats made from recycled and reclaimed materials (+ movie). More
Opinion: the Turkish government's attempt to move protestors from Taksim Square to a new public space – nicknamed the "third testicle" – on a piece of reclaimed land at the edge of Istanbul was a failure from day one, says Justin McGuirk. More
News: US architects including Richard Meier and Daniel Libeskind have attacked British proposals to suspend Israeli architects from architecture's international governing body over the construction of settlements in the West Bank. More
Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radic and Wang Shu are among seven international architects invited to design bus stops for a tiny Austrian village in exchange for a holiday there (+ slideshow). More
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a Part III architect at Adjaye Associates, whose Dirty House – a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch – is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers:Â scanning people's brains to learn about their preferences "opens up new possibilities" for designers, according to Merel Bekking, who has designed a range of "perfect" products based on data from MRI scans.
News: British architect Terry Farrell's firm has unveiled plans for a 560-metre-high skyscraper that is poised to become one of China's tallest buildings. More
News: Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been named as the winner of a competition to design a ferry terminal for the Taiwanese island of Kinmen. More
Danish furniture design brand Republic of Fritz Hansen has reintroduced Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen’s Grand Prix chair with new wooden legs. More
Angular roof canopies frame terraces at the front and rear of this family house in Australia by Adam Dettrick Architects, allowing residents to enjoy both morning and evening sunshine (+ slideshow). More
Design graduate Bettina Madita Böhm has created a cylindrical concrete beehive for urban beekeepers to use on the roofs of city buildings. More
