News: Swiss firms MLZD and Sollberger Bögli have been named as the winners of a competition organised by the City of Lausanne to design a 12,000-seat football stadium. More about MLZD and Sollberger Bögli win competition to design new Lausanne football stadium
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the next extract from our latest book, British designer Ilse Crawford discusses Studioilse's work, design philosophy and the influence of her Scandinavian background. More about Ilse Crawford: "The interior is the life of the building"
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: these objects designed by Austrian studio Mischer'Traxler are equipped with both the tools and instructions required for reproducing them (+ slideshow). More about Mischer'Traxler reveals manufacturing processes by transforming objects into tool kits
Competition: we've teamed up with Istanbul Design Biennial to give away 25 prizes to Dezeen readers, including tickets to design walks around the city and guided tours of the festival. More about Competition: 25 Istanbul Design Biennial prizes to be won
Strips of white timber cover a series of simple interlocking geometric volumes that form this Canadian home by Montreal studio Jean Verville (+ slideshow). More about Jean Verville completes white clapboard house in suburban Montreal
News: the first tenants have moved into offices in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's newly opened One World Trade Center in New York (+ slideshow). More about One World Trade Center welcomes first occupants
This umbrella by Japanese studio Nendo has a two-pronged handle that allows it to stand on its own when not in use (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's Stay-brella stands up unassisted
News: Beijing firm MAD has unveiled the initial design for an art museum on Chicago's lakefront, which will house the collection of American film director George Lucas. More about MAD reveals concept design for George Lucas' Chicago art museum
The corners of this otherwise traditionally shaped house by Insert Studio have been cut away to form two porches that help to make a connection to the rural Romanian landscape (+ slideshow). More about Insert Studio completes house in Romania with two cut-away corners
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: London artist Kristina Cranfeld has created a series of masks that exaggerate different facial features, and a fictional training guide for exercising facial expressions (+ movie). More about Kristina Cranfeld amplifies and distorts facial expressions with Ownership of the Face masks
Swedish architect Max Holst used a traditional Swedish paint to give an all-black appearance to the exterior of this woodland house outside Stockholm (+ slideshow). More about Woodland villa in Sweden designed by Max Holst with a blackened exterior
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss are presenting a computer with a keyboard made of punching bags at the Istanbul biennial to encourage office workers to be more physical during the working day (+ slideshow). More about Workout Computer by Bless keeps you fit while you type
Water flows both up and down from this dual-nozzled faucet designed by ECAL graduate Alice Spieser, which combines the functionally of a standard tap with a drinking fountain (+ movie). More about Alice Spieser's 3D-printed tap aims to make drinking from the faucet more dignified
Interview: the architects behind the phenomenally popular High Line park in New York have spoken to Dezeen about how the project has changed the city and why attempts to recreate the idea in other places might struggle. More about The High Line is a "pulling-back from architecture" say Diller and Scofidio
Dutch Design Week 2014: Netherlands-based multidisciplinary artist Helmut Smits has developed a device for "a world in which drinking water can be harder to come by than Coca-Cola". More about Helmut Smits' The Real Thing turns Coca-Cola back into water
Sheets of translucent corrugated plastic reveal the timber framework of this photography studio in Japan by FT Architects, which also features an angular white roof (+ slideshow). More about Photography studio by FT Architects features corrugated plastic walls and a faceted roof
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: German architect Jürgen Mayer H has created a room filled with glowing pink light and ambient pink noise to explore how sleeping patterns could become "more nomadic" in the future (+ slideshow). More about "We need to redefine the sleep cycle" says architect Jürgen Mayer H
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: buildings of the future won't have walls and will instead consist of climate-controlled areas of landscape according to Sean Lally, one of the contributing designers at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2014 (+ slideshow). More about Future architecture will be built from energy says researcher Sean Lally
Pale wooden window frames contrast with the black-stained cedar facades of this extension to a detached house in Nantes by French studio Bertin Bichet Architectes (+ slideshow). More about Nantes house extension contrasts blackened wood facades with pale window frames
Berlin-based Daniel Becker has designed this wooden cabinet for new German startup Kimidori, which makes products exclusively from used industrial pallets (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Becker Design Studio creates furniture from transportation pallets