Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art – an asymmetric steel and concrete assembly in Manhattan's Meatpacking District (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano's new building for the Whitney set to open
Milan 2015: more than 9,000 images from Milan's design week have been uploaded to Instagram using our #milanogram2015 tag, but this shot by Matti Kleell has been named best photograph by our panel of judges. More about Dezeen's #milanogram2015 winner revealed
Moshe Safdie's firm has unveiled its design for the National Medal of Honor Museum in South Carolina – a five-pointed structure that will present the history of the USA's most revered soldiers. More about Safdie Architects designs museum to honour American war heroes
Apple's Milan pavilion, architectural photography captured using Instagram and marble vases designed by Zaha Hadid feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for our pick of the best news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has created a chair for office furniture company Kokuyo, following its one-year retrospective exhibition in Milan (+ slideshow). More about Nendo follows up Milan exhibition with stacking chair for Kokuyo
Business news: MakerBot, once the darling of the 3D-printing scene, has laid off 20 per cent of its staff and closed its three retail stores after failing to meet its financial growth targets. More about 3D-printing pioneer MakerBot lays off staff and closes stores
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Strips of dark-stained timber give a charred appearance to the three stacked blocks that form this house in the Netherlands, which replaces another property that was destroyed by fire (+ slideshows). More about Huize Looveld is a blackened timber house built on the site of a razed farmstead
Interview: a Kickstarter campaign has launched to fund a floating swimming pool for London's River Thames. According to Studio Octopi architect and project co-founder Chris Romer-Lee, the city is experiencing an outdoor swimming revolution. More about "People have had it with the smells and verrucas from indoor pools" says Thames Baths founder
Business news: luxury Italian kitchen and bathroom brand Boffi has acquired furniture company De Padova, adding free-standing pieces to its range of products in a move to appeal to the US market. More about Boffi eyes US market growth with De Padova acquisition
Competition: Domaine de Boisbuchet is offering Dezeen readers the chance to win a place on a week-long design workshop at a chateau in south-west France this summer. More about Competition: win a place on the summer workshops at Domaine de Boisbuchet
This umbrella has a frame that turns its canopy inside out, keeping water droplets inside as well as allowing it to open and close in confined spaces (+ movie). More about "Drip-free" umbrella encloses wet canopy on the inside
Architects Deborah Saunt and David Hills used underground rooms and mirrors to help disguise the volume of their house, which is located in a conservation area in leafy south London (+ slideshow). More about DSDHA's Covert House is designed to camouflage with its surroundings
Milan 2015: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka created these seats for Issey Miyake's Tokyo store using shapes he created by accident while "playing around" with 3D-modelling software. More about Tokujin Yoshioka distorts hexagonal forms to create stools for Issey Miyake stores