London Design Festival 2014: Dezeen has collaborated with designjunction to create a free digital map of West End Design Quarter 2014 – one of the key areas during this year's London Design Festival – including the best fashion and design shops offering discounts to Visa card holders during the festival. More about Dezeen and designjunction launch map of West End Design Quarter 2014
Opinion: increasingly popular lists that judge cities on "liveability" and "quality of life" are dangerous for the future development of our metropoles, says Sam Jacob. More about "Cities that score well barely qualify as cities"
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News: British inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for an intelligent vacuuming robot that can be programmed remotely, which has been in development for the past 16 years. More about Dyson launches "most powerful" vacuum cleaning robot
Japanese design studio Nendo has created an ice cream cake, featuring a group of small chocolate houses intended to remind people of returning home for the holidays (+ slideshow). More about Nendo designs ice cream Village cake for Häagen-Dazs
News: Norman Foster and Mexican architect Fernando Romero have won a competition to design one of the biggest airports on earth for Mexico City, which the British architect says will be "like nothing else in the world". More about Foster teams up with Fernando Romero on new Mexico City airport
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed a water-traffic control centre in the town of Maasbracht with a curved glass upper storey that offers panoramic views over the surrounding waterways (+ slideshow). More about Rounded glass facades improve views from Wiel Arets' water-traffic control centre
The geometric patterns of bridge structures informed the shapes used to create this wooden furniture by Variant Studio (+ slideshow). More about Structural trusses influence Bridge furniture by Variant Studio
News: the six houses shortlisted for this year's RIBA Manser Medal have been announced, including a cliffside home on Scotland's Isle of Skye, an angular house extension in London and a Welsh countryside residence near the remains of a Celtic fort (+ slideshow). More about RIBA reveals shortlist for best British house of the past year
The most private rooms of this house by Japanese studio Airhouse Design Office are concealed within massive columns, leaving the surrounding double-height space to become an area for socialising (+ slideshow). More about Airhouse Design Office creates a hierarchy of rooms inside House in Ohno
Visitors to Venice's Palazzo Grassi become immersed within a space that appears to have no boundaries in an installation created by American artist Doug Wheeler in the gallery's atrium (+ slideshow). More about Doug Wheeler creates illusion of infinite white space inside Venetian palazzo
Japanese firm Torafu Architects used contrasting floor finishes to define the three distinct spaces of Snow Picnic, an experimental ice-cream shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Torafu Architects creates three-tiered interior for Japanese ice-cream cafe
Plants are interspersed amongst the raw industrial spaces of this lifestyle store in Osaka by Japanese firm Suppose Design Office, which combines shopping, dining and gardening (+ slideshow). More about Suppose Design Office pairs industrial fittings with plants at Biotop lifestyle store
Detroit studio Rootoftwo has installed weather vanes shaped like headless chickens on five buildings in Folkestone, England, which spin around and change colour in response to fear levels on the internet rather than the climate (+ slideshow). More about Headless rooftop chickens by Rootoftwo respond to internet panic levels
Dezeen promotion: Dutch tile manufacturer Mosa has announced the launch of two new collections, Mosa Scenes and Mosa Solids. More about Mosa releases Scenes and Solids tile collections
Architect Simon Astridge employed a varied material palette of plywood, concrete, brick and stone to create this extension to a Victorian terraced house in London (+ movie). More about Simon Astridge opts for a variety of raw materials in Balham House extension
Maison&Objet 2014: Hem, the brand launched by online retailer Fab.com and Finnish design company One Nordic, has revealed its first collection of customisable furniture (+ slideshow). More about Fab.com and One Nordic reveal first collection under new design brand Hem
News: a mixed-use development in south-east London has been branded as the UK's worst building of the year. More about "Oppressive" Woolwich Central development wins Carbuncle Cup 2014
Italian illustrator Federico Babina has spliced 25 world-famous paintings, from artists including Picasso, Mondrian and Dalí, with buildings by the 20th century's most prolific architects. More about Federico Babina inserts 20th century architecture into famous artworks