Nendo has designed retail concessions for its wide range of products created exclusively for department stores in Japan (+ slideshow). More about Nendo showcases prolific product range in Japanese department stores
News: Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled its plans for a "radical reinterpretation" of the Smithsonian Institution campus in Washington DC, creating new entrances and underground extensions (+ slideshow). More about BIG presents More billion plans for Smithsonian campus overhaul
German architecture office Wurm + Wurm has transformed a derelict industrial building into offices, featuring a concrete facade punctuated by rows of hexagonal openings (+ slideshow). More about Hexagonal windows pattern the facade of German office building by Wurm + Wurm
London designer Lee Broom used his latest marble homeware and lighting pieces to furnish this subterranean Soho restaurant, which pays tribute to the area's insalubrious history (+ slideshow). More about Lee Broom pairs oak and marble for prostitution-themed London restaurant
Timber surfaces are combined with angled mirrors to help this visitor centre by Smith Vigeant Architects to fit in with its setting in Canada's Mont-Tremblant National Park (+ slideshow). More about Visitor centre "harmoniously inserted" into a Canadian forest by Smith Vigeant Architects
Warsaw collective Pangenerator has designed a digital necklace formed using light patterns that are projected onto the wearer's body via their phone (+ movie). More about Pangenerator creates jewellery with projected light
A team of Austrian students installed a model city in the centre of Vienna to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion (£15 billion) that the government is paying to bail out a local bank (+ slideshow). More about Austrians protest government spending with concrete model city
Jonathan Ive's swipe at design education, a house extension featuring a large window wrapped around one corner (pictured), and a glow-in-the-dark cycle path feature in Dezeen Mail issue 228. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: construction is now underway on a memorial to extinct species of the present and future, designed by David Adjaye for the Isle of Portland, England. More about Construction starts on David Adjaye's spiralling stone extinction memorial
News: Apple's head designer Jonathan Ive says he struggles to hire young staff as schools are failing to teach them how to make products. More about Design education is "tragic" says Jonathan Ive
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to give away posters designed by Barnbrook Studio for the Disobedient Objects exhibition. More about Competition: win a set of V&A exhibition posters by Barnbrook Studio
Vertical strips of spruce give a stripy facade to this semi-detached house, completed by Innauer‐Matt Architekten in a hamlet within the forested landscape of Vorarlberg, Austria (+ slideshow). More about Strips of local spruce clad Haus Feurstein by Innauer‐Matt Architekten
News: Eurostar has revealed a fleet of trains by Italian transport design studio Pininfarina that will serve a new range of European cities, marking the cross-channel rail service's 20th anniversary. More about Eurostar unveils train design by Pininfarina to celebrate 20th anniversary
News: MBM Arquitectes co-founder David Mackay, one of the architects behind Barcelona's 1992 Olympic Village, has passed away at the age of 80. More about Barcelona Olympics architect David Mackay dies aged 80
News: Bjarke Ingels' firm has been named as the designer of a new public square in the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in south London. More about BIG expected to make UK debut at Battersea Power Station
A three-lane running track weaves around this office for a football app company, designed by architects TKEZ, leading to goals for penalty shootouts during work breaks (+ slideshow). More about Onefootball HQ by TKEZ features turfed meeting rooms and a running track
This low-cost centrifugal device by British designer Jack Albert Trew fits onto the wheel of a bicycle, providing a simple blood diagnosis for patients in remote parts of Africa (+ slideshow). More about Jack Albert Trew designs bicycle-powered centrifuge to enable blood testing in rural Africa
Elliptical openings create huge lightwells through the seven storeys of the Helsinki University Library by Anttinen Oiva Architects – another runner up from the first Finlandia Prize for Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Curving voids pierce the floors of Anttinen Oiva Architects' Helsinki library
World Architecture Festival 2014: Johanna Hurme of Canadian firm 5468796 explains the use of wooden "quills" in the proposed art gallery extension that was named Future Project of the Year 2014 (+ movie). More about Gallery extension proposal by 5468796 "recreates the quality of light of a rainforest"
Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed a machine for a biotech company that will be used for genetic testing experiments (+ slideshow). More about Yves Behar designs DNA testing machine