World Architecture Festival 2014: Singapore's new national sports stadium lays claim to the world's largest free-spanning dome, measuring 310-metres across, and its roof can be opened or closed to suit the tropical climate (+ slideshow). More
Synthetic human body parts mounted on robots dance to dramatic music in Dance Machines, an installation by British artist Peter William Holden in London (+ slideshow). More
This week we announced the 2014 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize and published two very unusual houses, including one that can float on rising floodwater. Read on for more architecture and design highlights. More
Philippe Starck has unveiled a prototype for his latest series of prefabricated low-energy wooden homes – a glazed and aluminium-clad structure outside Paris that he and his wife Jasmine plan to move into (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen Watch Store: Scottish design studio Instrmnt has launched its debut collection of timepieces exclusively at Dezeen Watch Store, following a successful crowfunding campaign on Kickstarter (+interview). More
Dutch Design Week 2014: Dutch designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe have created a driverless fabric car concept for Swedish auto brand Volvo as part of a series examining how new developments in technology will change car design (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2014: director Deborah Spencer and creative director Michael Sodeau introduce their highlights from designjunction 2014 in this movie produced by Dezeen for the show. More
News: architects in the UK are being "cut to the bone" by bureaucracy says architect Steve Tompkins, whose firm won the RIBA Stirling Prize last night for the Liverpool Everyman Theatre (+ interview). More
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior design manager at Selfridges, whose flagship store on London's Oxford Street is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Identically proportioned rooms are arranged in a grid behind the yellow-dyed facade of this house in rural Chile, designed by architect duo Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. More
"Megalomaniacal ambition" inspired the design for this huge, glossy table by Clive Wilkinson Architects, which rises and falls in a loop around a New York office, framing wood-lined nooks and corridors beneath its surface (+ slideshow). More
Aberrant Architecture renovated the interior of this small private school in London with brightly coloured walls and furniture that pays homage to the building's Edwardian roots (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: popular software packages are influencing the way new buildings look says Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, who calls on architects to develop their own code rather than using "off-the-shelf" solutions (+ movie). More
Danish studios CEBRA and Glifberg+Lykke have created an igloo-shaped street sports centre and a skate park on the harbour front of Haderslev, Denmark (+ slideshow). More
Dutch Design Week 2014: The interlocking modules of this street furniture by Polish designer Izabela Bołoz form flexible seating for members of the public to sit, recline or climb on (+ slideshow). More
Beijing Design Week 2014: People's Architecture Office has developed a panelling system for building temporary living spaces within the ageing structures of the city's hutong districts (+ slideshow). More
