Dutch Design Week 2014: Rug company ICE International will launch a set of eight different carpets by individuals from four "design couples" – including Piet Hein Eek, Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk – at next week's Dutch Design Week. More about Netherlands design duos to present rugs at Dutch Design Week
This concrete sports hall by Belgian studio URA has been built into a hillside in the wooded grounds of a school just outside Brussels (+ slideshow). More about School gymnasium by URA nestles into the landscape at a Belgian school
Dutch Design Week 2014: This chair by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Govert Flint allows the user to control their computer cursor with a range of body movements (+ movie). More about Govert Flint's Dynamic Chair turns the body into a computer mouse
Studiomama has converted the upper floors of a 300 year-old building in Stockholm's medieval old town to create a pair of 200-metre-square apartments with built-in wooden fittings (+ slideshow). More about Studiomama pairs pale wood with marble for revamped 1720s loft in Stockholm
Food design studio Bompas & Parr has made whisky tasting more theatrical by using a church organ to heighten the perception of different flavours while drinking. More about The Flavour Conductor by Bompas & Parr enhances different flavours in whisky
News: Norway's central bank has selected pixellated designs by Oslo design studio Snøhetta to feature on the back of the country's new banknotes. More about Snøhetta graphics to feature on Norwegian banknotes
This rural Argentinian home by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos was built from intersecting slabs of timber-imprinted concrete and sheets of glass (+ slideshow). More about Concrete cabin by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos built in an Argentinian woodland
Books are displayed on thin suspended beams that double as garment rails at this minimal Tokyo concept store by Japanese studio Nendo (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's grid of suspended bookshelves hangs above shoppers in Beige fashion boutique
World Architecture Festival 2014: Singapore's creative industries are moving out of the central business district to more affordable light-industrial areas, says architect Colin Seah, who has recently completed a layered workplace building in the Pasir Panjang neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about Ministry of Design's 100PP joins a wave of "edgy and interesting" buildings for Singapore creatives
Korean design studio 11+ has created a portable humidifier with a transparent bottle, minimal monochrome packaging and a red USB charging cable (+ slideshow). More about 11+ designs USB-powered portable humidifier
UNStudio has completed a theatre in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse, featuring a spotty facade that glows purple at night and an auditorium with a ceiling that moves to improve acoustics (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio's Theatre de Stoep improves its acoustics with a moving auditorium ceiling
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has reinterpreted a traditional Basque vessel in ceramic to serve water from a local aqueduct in the region's restaurants. More about Patricia Urquiola designs slanted water jug for Bilbao restaurants
World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Ole Scheeren has revealed more about the motivations behind The Interlace, an "important prototype" for housing where horizontal buildings are stacked diagonally across one another to frame terraces, gardens and plazas (+ slideshow). More about Ole Scheeren's The Interlace envisioned as "a blatant reversal" of tower-block housing
A solo exhibition of Dutch designer Aldo Bakker's sculptural furniture, including a minimal swing and a number of more ambiguous objects, is on display at a Rotterdam gallery (+ slideshow). More about Aldo Bakker exhibits new designs at Galerie Vivid Rotterdam
News: technology company Microsoft's research branch has combined projection mapping with motion sensors to turn enclosed spaces into immersive augmented experiences. More about Microsoft's RoomAlive transforms any room "into an augmented interactive display"
Vienna Design Week 2014: Bulgarian designer Valentin Vodev has launched a folding bike that can be wheeled when folded and uses a magnet to create the locking system that holds the frame together (+ slideshow). More about Valentin Vodev's Vello bike folds with "a simple kick" thanks to one big magnet
Dutch studio i29 has refitted the interior of a two-bedroom garage conversion in the centre of Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More about i29 converts Amsterdam garage into a single-storey apartment
Pneumatic arms lift the walls of Sean Godsell's MPavilion, the project billed as Australia's answer to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which opened to the public today in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens (+ slideshow). More about Sean Godsell unveils inaugural MPavilion designed to "bloom like a flower"
A collection of differently sized cuboids make up the volume of this family house in Shiga, Japan, designed by architect Kouichi Kimura to offer "versatile spaces" with "light and scenery" (+ slideshow). More about Kouichi Kimura's Scape House uses a variety of windows to create a hierarchy of views
Vertical strips of masonry wrap around the buildings and playgrounds that make up Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, a new preschool in Copenhagen by Danish studio COBE (+ slideshow). More about COBE's Copenhagen kindergarten designed as a "village for children"