News: Apple has trademarked the design and layout of its retail stores, nine years after the first Apple Store opened in Virginia, USA. More about Apple trade marks "distinctive design" of its stores
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 will be called Fundamentals and will chart the emergence of "a single modern language" in global architecture, its director Rem Koolhaas has announced. More about Rem Koolhaas reveals title for Venice Architecture Biennale 2014
News: the rise of affordable 3D printers is sparking a boom in demand for personalised sex toys that can be ordered online or printed at home. More about Cheap 3D printers fuel home-printed sex toy "phenomenon"
Illustrator Vic Lee tells us how his banners depicting the former names of Covent Garden streets hark back to the area's sordid past in the next of our Seven Designers for Seven Dials movies about aerial installations curated by Dezeen. More about "Victorian Seven Dials was known for shady characters and wayward ladies" - Vic Lee
Cologne 2013: squishy stools shaped like animals and a family of multi-storey glass jars are among the objects designed for an exhibition during last week's interior design event Passagen in Cologne (+ slideshow). More about Objects for the Neighbour at Passagen
This timber-clad cinema in the south of France was designed by architects Encore Heureux to evoke both the arched facades of art deco picture houses and the chevron-patterned walls of local tobacco-drying sheds (+ slideshow). More about Ciné 32 by Encore Heureux
Japanese designer Ryuji Nakamura used crayons to draw thin lines of colour along the rods of these gridded benches (+ slideshow). More about Water Lily by Ryuji Nakamura
This ridged steel art gallery by South Korean studio Mass Studies has half of its floors buried underground while others balance on a pair of triangular pilotis (+ slideshow). More about Songwon Art Centre by Mass Studies
Following our story about plans for a 3D-printed house, Universe Architecture's Janjaap Ruijssenaars tells us about the race to be first to print an entire building (+ interview + slideshow). More about Architect explains how he will 3D print a "whole building in one go"
Designer Philippe Malouin explains why he hung transparent bunting above the street in the next of our Seven Designers for Seven Dials movies about the aerial installations curated by Dezeen. More about "We didn't want to take over the neighbourhood" - Philippe Malouin
News: the Kenyan government has commenced work on Konza Technology City, a £9.1 billion IT and business hub dubbed "Africa's Silicon Savannah". More about Kenyan silicon city under construction
Opinion: in the first of his bi-weekly columns for our new Opinion section, Sam Jacob describes the way that sites like Dezeen have unleashed a "design tsunami" and discusses how "the endless spewing of design imagery" is affecting design culture. More about "How can culture exist in a stream of Photoshopped incontinence?"
Maison&Objet 2013: Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings has created a range of glassware for Danish brand Hay featuring swatches of colour, graduated tints and grid lines (+ slideshow). More about Colour Glass by Scholten & Baijings for Hay
Plans to 3D-print a house and Dezeen's new opinion column lead the latest issue of Dezeen Mail, which also includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Competition: Dezeen is giving five readers the chance to win two sets of their Instagram photos printed onto custom Polaroid and roll film-style prints. More about Competition: five Instagram printed photo sets from Origrami to be won
This lopsided house by Argentinean studio Adamo-Faiden has a pointed balcony poking out of one side and a caged terrace on the roof (+ movie + photos by Cristobal Palma). More about Casa Martos by Adamo-Faiden
Portugese designer Miguel Vieira Baptista came up with a set of measuring tools for a hypothetical reconstruction of a castle by estimating lengths with his hands. More about Units for Reconstruction by Miguel Vieira Baptista
Dezeen promotion: there is still chance to exhibit at EDIT by designjunction, which will take place from 8 to 14 April during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. More about EDIT by designjunction in Milan
This Tokyo five-storey townhouse by Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa is fronted by a stack of gardens. More about Garden and House by Ryue Nishizawa
News: plans for an apartment block of stackable modules have won a design competition for "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of small homes in Manhattan (+ slideshow). More about New York's "micro-units" housing competition winners announced