Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its competition-winning plans to extend the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, creating the Museum of the 20th Century. More about Herzog & de Meuron to extend Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
Dezeen promotion: the changing nature of travel is the focus of this year's Sleep Event – an annual gathering for hotel architects and designers. More about The Sleep Event unveils 2016 programme of events
Is Apple struggling to keep up with its rivals? Readers are debating whether the tech giant has run out of innovation in this week's comments update. More about "Apple doesn't understand how quickly we want things to advance"
UK firm Foster + Partners has released plans for a pair of skyscrapers to be constructed in Brickell, Miami, which will take advantage of the city's new height limit. More about Foster + Partners unveils supertall twin towers for Miami
Dezeen has teamed up with publishing house Batsford to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of an architectural dot-to-dot, along with a colouring book for adults. More about Competition: five pairs of architecture activity books for adults to be won
This house in south London, arranged around an old pear tree, was designed by British architect Jake Edgley as a home for himself and his family. More about Edgley Design builds family home around 100-year-old pear tree in south London
Herzog & de Meuron's long-delayed Hamburg concert hall has announced its completion to the city in huge illuminated letters. More about Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg announces completion in lights
Which are the architects, designers, brands, schools and events that Dezeen readers most wanted to read about over the last year? We'll reveal the answers when we launch Dezeen Hot List on 9 November. More about Who's hot? Find out when Dezeen Hot List launches next week
Swiss furniture brand Vitra is launching a limited-edition version of Charles and Ray Eames' Lounge Chair to commemorate its 60 years in production. More about Vitra covers Eames Lounge Chair in fabric to celebrate 60th anniversary
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for transport/infrastructure architects at Grimshaw's studio in Sydney, which unveiled designs for a high-rise school earlier this year (pictured). Read more stories on Grimshaw, or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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A pair of concrete and glass volumes are stacked at right angles to form a cantilever sheltering a pool terrace at this family home in Tel Aviv, designed by Axelrod Architects and Pitsou Kedem. More about Modernist-inspired house in Tel Aviv features glazed walls and cantilevered upper storey
Industrial designer Kim Ramain-Colomb's brightly packaged Habibi cosmetics range is based on traditional Moroccan makeup. More about Traditional Moroccan cosmetics updated for smartphone generation
Chinese studio Archi-Union Architects programmed robots to construct the undulating brick facade of this art gallery in Shanghai's West Bund district. More about Bricklaying robots create bulging brick facade for Shanghai arts centre
US studio Morphosis has completed a science, design and engineering facility in Michigan, which features a scrim made of ETFE plastic and an entrance stairwell contained within a black orb made of carbon fibre. More about Carbon-fibre orb marks entrance to Detroit academic building by Morphosis
Bicycle thieves will need a stomach of steel to thwart the SkunkLock, which makes anyone who attempts to cut through it throw up. More about SkunkLock bicycle lock causes thieves to vomit
Elon Musk has realised his vision for a "one-stop solar and storage experience", combining camouflaged roof tiles with an updated version of the energy-storing Powerwall. More about Tesla and SolarCity unveil inconspicuous solar roof tiles with "quasi-infinite" lifespan
The trophies awarded to musicians at next year's Brit Awards will have been designed by the late Zaha Hadid. More about Zaha Hadid-designed trophies to be presented at Brit Awards
A+Awards: a dramatically thin roof soars over the glass front of the Apple Store at Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto – another of this year's winners at the Architizer A+Awards. More about Slender roof covers Apple Store Stanford by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Danish architecture firm COBE has created a range of ridged pots based on a school building it also designed. More about COBE bases collection of ceramic plant pots on its own building
It's Halloween, a time when many cultures honour the dead. To mark the occasion, we take a tour through some of the most interesting final resting places dreamed up by designers, including a biodegradable urn that turns a deceased loved one into a tree and colourful zip-up coffins designed to make death less depressing. More about Eight coffins and urns you would want to be seen dead in