This week on Dezeen: Apple's Jonathan Ive (pictured) accused contemporary designers of losing interest in how things are made this week, while the United Arab Emirates revealed plans for a manmade mountain in an attempt to increase the country's rainfall. More about This week, Jonathan Ive took a swipe at designers and the UAE planned to build a mountain
Milan 2016: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's chair and sofa for Italian brand Tacchini feature tall sloping backs that form triangular shapes when seen from the side. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune designs Santiago seating with sloped backs for Tacchini
This floating weather station by Matthew Butcher has been cast adrift in the flood-prone Thames Estuary, and is intended as a critique on the current trend for floating architecture (+ slideshow). More about Matthew Butcher launches floating weather station on Essex's Thames Estuary
New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced an exhibition of projects that aim to tackle the issue of shelter for migration and global refugee emergencies. More about MoMA's Insecurities exhibition to address the global refugee crisis
Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an architect/designer at Commune Design, which transformed a Mid-Century Modern office building into a boutique hotel (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Milan 2016: Italian company Ghidini Giuseppe Bosco has unveiled its debut range of brass furniture and products, designed by Studio Job, the Campana brothers, Richard Hutten and more. More about Ghidini launches first collection of brass homeware and furniture
British designer Jasper Morrison has revealed Lepic, his first industrially produced kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Jasper Morrison designs first kitchen for Schiffini
Milan 2016: in our next movie from Nike's The Nature of Motion exhibition, architect Greg Lynn explains how his body temperature-regulating chair could help athletes significantly improve their performance. More about Greg Lynn's microclimate chair for Nike could give athletes "a distinct performance advantage"
Opinion: Salone del Mobile may be the official centre of the furniture business during Milan design week, but the anarchic fuorisalone is the thing that actually channels investment into the city, says local designer Eleonora Fassina. More about "In Milan, design is best exhibited where it's not supposed to be"
Airbnb's offices in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore include features like an indoor village green, bleacher-style seating and a reception desk modelled on a front porch (+ slideshow). More about Airbnb reveals adaptable office spaces in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha is to be awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this month. More about Paulo Mendes da Rocha chosen to receive Venice Biennale Golden Lion by Alejandro Aravena
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its designs for a new central business district for Prague next to the Masaryk railway station. More about Zaha Hadid Architects presents plans for new Prague business district
New York 2016: US artist Nicole Nadeau has used one of her own breasts to create a mould for a collection of hexagonal tiles complete with pink nipples. More about Nicole Nadeau's nipple tiles are moulded from her own breast
Our job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs is for an industrial designer at Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer, which this week unveiled designs for the "world's first" 3D-printed consumer wheelchair. Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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For this house on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japanese architect Tetsuo Yamaji aimed to create a unique building using mass-produced components (+ slideshow). More about Tetsuo Yamaji builds "a non-mass-produced house with mass-produced components"
New York 2016: Finnish designer Janne Kyttanen has continued to develop his explosion welding technique, melding volcanic stone and 3D-printed copper into two furniture pieces (+ slideshow). More about Janne Kyttanen extends Metsidian furniture collection created by explosion welding
A hole in the roof of this timber-clad house extension in Sydney reveals the location of a secluded courtyard. More about Cutaway Roof House by Scale Architecture has a courtyard sliced out of one side
Italian architect Piero Lissoni has won a speculative competition for a site on New York's East River with his proposal for a submerged circular aquarium. More about Piero Lissoni wins design competition with waterfront aquarium in New York
Milan 2016: Italian furniture company Arper has highlighted the new colours and materials within its range by styling furniture and props into single-hued scenes. More about Arper presents 2016 collection in colour-themed installation
Moshe Safdie, Studio O+A and actor Brad Pitt's Make It Right foundation are among the 11 winners of this year's National Design Awards, given annually by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. More about National Design Awards 2016 winners announced