Engineering student Alejandro Plasencia has created biodegradable fishing nets and tracking tags for fishermen to help stop aquatic mammals getting trapped in lost trawling equipment (+ movie). More about Biodegradable fishing nets could prevent sea mammal deaths
French fashion house Dior's flagship store in Tokyo by Japanese studio SANAA has had its interior overhauled by American architect Peter Marino (+ slideshow). More about SANAA's Dior Omotesando store receives Peter Marino refit
Wooden panels and doors slide across the geometric floor tiles that Nook Architects uncovered during the remodelling of this narrow Barcelona apartment (+ slideshow). More about Sliding wooden partitions divide Nook Architects' latest Barcelona apartment
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is hosting an exhibition of work completed by Studio Wieki Somers over the past decade, including a collection of lamps based on sixteenth century Japanese Samurai flags (+ slideshow). More about Studio Wieki Somers presents retrospective exhibition at Rotterdam museum
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Australian studio Philip Stejskal Architecture has equipped a white timber extension to a 1890s duplex with shutters and sliding panels that camouflage with the walls when closed. More about House by Philip Stejskal can be "locked down" with shutters that blend into the facade
Dutch Design Week 2014: these textiles by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alexandra Stück are infused with different remedial herbal scents to make the wearer feel calm, focused or horny. More about Alexandra Stück's Herbal Kneipp Textiles use scent to promote wellbeing
Music: this video by New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford shows a series of experiments that demonstrate how sound waves affect different types of matter. More about Nigel Stanford makes sound visible for Cymatics music video
An angular black roof rests on the concrete and brick walls of this pavilion that architecture studio TAKA designed for a cricket club in Dublin (+ slideshow). More about TAKA completes brick and concrete pavilion for a Dublin cricket club
News: Oslo-based Neue Design Studio has won a competition to redesign Norway's passports and ID cards, a month after graphics by Snøhetta were chosen for the country's new bank notes. More about Norwegian travel documents given a minimal makeover
Designer Ernesto D Morales has proposed a spoon made out of magnifying glass as part of a series of absurd products for his fictional company Object Solutions (+ movie). More about Magnifying spoon designed to detect contaminants in food
Hundreds of tiny holes puncture the white concrete panels that clad these two extensions to the Badajoz Fine Arts Museum by Spanish firm Estudio Arquitectura Hago (+ slideshow). More about Badajoz Fine Arts Museum extensions feature speckled walls and bevelled edges
This week we reported on Jonathan Ive's wide-ranging talk at London's Design Museum, the release of Marc Newson's shotgun and a Real Apple Store created to showcase British apple varieties (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our music track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
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News: a team led by Danish architecture firm COBE has seen off competition from three firms to land the commission for a new railway interchange in Køge, a town 28 miles south of Copenhagen. More about COBE team trumps Kengo Kuma in Danish railway station contest
Opinion: an unloved relic of 1950s socialist Yugoslavia is one of the finest buildings of its era. But in modern Serbia, its overtly political message doesn't chime well with the prevailing ideology, says Owen Hatherley. More about "It's no surprise that the government were reluctant to let members of the public in"
Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien claim that the brand was one of the few furniture companies in Italy that would "dare" to invest in their work. More about Doshi Levien's furniture for Moroso "challenges people's perceptions"
News: OMA's New York office has unveiled plans to build three residential towers beside the bay in Miami's Coconut Grove neighbourhood. Practice partner Shohei Shigematsu explains the design to Dezeen in an exclusive interview (+ slideshow). More about OMA reveals trio of "peanut-shaped" towers for Miami's Coconut Grove
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a design director at international interior design company YOO, whose projects include Barkli Virgin House, Moscow (pictured) by Kelly Hoppen. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Italian firearms brand Beretta has revealed Marc Newson's reinterpretation of the traditional side-by-side shotgun (+ slideshow). More about Marc Newson's "streamlined" 486 shotgun unveiled by Beretta