The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's fifth Design Triennial exhibition in New York examines the theme of beauty in contemporary design (+ slideshow). More about New York's Cooper Hewitt Triennial explores the theme of beauty in design
Danish boatbuilder Laust Nørgaard has completed a floating home for his family in Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). More about Houseboat by Laust Nørgaard floats in Copenhagen harbour
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior visual designer at online fashion title Vogue.com in New York. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Spanish product designer Victor Castanera has created a set of cylindrical resin containers with patterns reminiscent of ocean waves and sandy beaches. More about Victor Castanera's Undae vases are striped to look like sand and sea
Stockholm 2016: acoustics are the hot topic at this week's Stockholm Furniture Fair, with designers and brands launching products aimed at making interiors quieter. More about Noise reduction has become a "major preoccupation" in Scandinavian interiors
British designer Michael Young's LessThanFive carbon fibre chair for US-based furniture company Coalesse is launching after two years of development. More about Michael Young's carbon-fibre chair for Coalesse weighs less than five pounds
Business news: design brand Tom Dixon has been sold by its Swedish owners to a British investment company, it has emerged. More about Tom Dixon sold to British investment firm Neo Investment Partners
Google's self-driving car system has been officially recognised as a driver in the US, paving the way for the legalisation of autonomous vehicles. More about Google's artificial intelligence becomes first non-human to qualify as a driver
Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and multidisciplinary teams can now enter Eleven Magazine's latest ideas competition, which aims to reimagine the Tenderloin area of San Francisco as the "neighbourhood of the future". More about Call for entries to Eleven's San Francisco 2016 competition
Movie: gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones reflects on the walled garden Peter Zumthor created in 2011 in the next movie of our exclusive video series looking back at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions. More about Peter Zumthor's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 was a space of "solitude and calm"
COBE has unveiled its masterplan for Christiansholm, an artificial island in Copenhagen harbour formerly occupied by the Danish press (+ slideshow). More about COBE wins contest to redevelop Copenhagen's Christiansholm island
Herzog & de Meuron has completed an extension to the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, France, creating a new underground gallery accessed via a monumental cast-concrete staircase (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron creates subterranean gallery for Musée Unterlinden in Colmar
Influential names from the fashion industry, including Vanity Fair's Virginie Mouzat and British Fashion Council ambassador Sarah Mower, have criticised the interiors of Pininfarina's Eurostar redesign, referring to the Standard Premier carriage as "a disaster". More about New Eurostar carriage design slammed by fashion's elite
The Guggenheim Foundation has admitted that work has still not started on its new Abu Dhabi museum by architect Frank Gehry. More about Construction of Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi yet to start
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an industrial designer at fashion brand G-Star RAW, which collaborated with Vitra to update a collection of 1940s office furniture by French architect Jean Prouvé (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Studio 30 has transformed a terraced house in west London with a new loft bedroom and an enlarged family kitchen, both featuring walls that fold open to offer better views of a garden and nearby park (+ slideshow). More about London house remodelled by Studio 30 with loft bedroom and courtyard-inspired kitchen
Stockholm 2016: Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto's collection of screens for Swedish furniture brand Offecct can be arranged as "a forest of organic shapes" to help dampen noise in open-plan interiors (+ slideshow). More about Jin Kuramoto designs petal-shaped Wind room dividers for "acoustically chaotic" spaces
Giant wooden shingles cover the curving walls of this woodland trail centre by Swedish architecture firm Tengbom, designed to mimic the form and texture of a pine cone (+ slideshow). More about Tengbom's completes pine cone-inspired trail centre in a Swedish nature reserve