Highlights from Milan design week, a clifftop house in Japan by John Pawson and a bicycle by Ikea features in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail.
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Milan 2016: Studio Job has updated its collection of mosaic tiles for Italian brand Bisazza, including a range influenced by Britain's Industrial Revolution. More about Studio Job updates collection of mosaic tiles for Bisazza
Brooklyn's first supertall skyscraper by New York studio SHoP Architects has received the go ahead for construction. More about SHoP's supertall Brooklyn tower gets green light
Milan 2016: food and drinks giant PepsiCo is expanding its design team from 100 to 160 and opening studios around the world, following the success of its inaugural studio in New York (+ slideshow). More about PepsiCo to hire more designers to build "a critical mass of design people"
Architecture studio S Plus One has built a pair of matching micro homes in a Japanese village, one clad in cedar and the other clad with pine. More about Twin micro homes by S Plus One are both finished in different woods
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Milan 2016: New York designer Karim Rashid has created a set of aluminium bottles for drinks brand Pepsi, one of a series of megabrands that presented in Milan this year. More about Karim Rashid unveils Prestige Pepsi bottles and drinking accessories
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Studio Esinam to offer five readers the chance to win a limited-edition poster featuring Brutalist building elevations or one of four photography prints (+ slideshow). More about Competition: win limited-edition Brutalist architecture poster and prints by Studio Esinam
CF Møller Architects has completed a halls of residence for a Danish university, which features large communal living spaces, an underground bicycle park and a "sky lounge" overlooking a wetland park (+ slideshow). More about CF Møller's student housing in Odense is a trio of intertwining brick towers
Milan 2016: Chinese studio MAD Architects has created a door handle based on the shape of the firm's skyscrapers in Mississauga, Canada, which have been nicknamed the Marilyn Monroe Towers. More about MAD models Marilyn door handle on its curvaceous Canadian skyscrapers
US firm Gould Evans has revamped a 1970s concrete library in Kansas, wrapping the building in a terracotta rainscreen and adding modern amenities such as a recording studio (+ slideshow). More about Gould Evans adds vibrant orange skin to Brutalist library in Kansas
Construction is underway on two bent apartment towers in New York by SHoP Architects that will be joined by a skybridge offering a pool, hot tub and bar. More about Skybridge with a swimming pool will link pair of Manhattan towers by SHoP
Milan 2016: students from the Lund University have collaborated with the co-founder of Danish brand Hay to produce a range of experimental office furniture especially for small-scale workplaces (+ slideshow). More about Rolf Hay and Lund University students design alternatives to corporate office furniture
Milan 2016: in response to the vast amount of finished products on show at Milan design week, a group of graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven decided to exhibit only materials (+ slideshow). More about Design Academy Eindhoven graduates present "everything but the end product" in Milan
MVRDV has used a pioneering glass technology to replace the brick facade of a former townhouse in Amsterdam with a transparent replica, more suited to the building's new use as a Chanel boutique. More about MVRDV replaces Chanel store's traditional facade with glass bricks that are "stronger than concrete"
Milan 2016: plans for an oversized armchair that would be formed inside a growing tree trunk and a massive logo that changes colour with the seasons featured in Dutch designer Maarten Baas's New! Newer! Newest! exhibition (+ slideshow). More about Maarten Baas proposes tree-grown armchair at New! Newer! Newest! exhibition
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Merrell Publishers to give away five copies of a book that profiles Britain's emerging architectural practices, including Assemble and Invisible Studio (+ slideshow). More about Competition: five copies of New Architects 3 book to be won
Concrete blocks with triangular apertures allow light to filter into the rooms and courtyards of this house in Vietnam's Central Highlands, designed by local architects office Khuôn Studio (+ slideshow). More about Triangular openings pattern handmade concrete facade of Khuôn Studio's Kontum House
New York's Museum of Modern Art is closing its architecture and design galleries for refurbishment, but the institution is unable to confirm that they will reopen in the same format. More about Future uncertain for MoMA's architecture and design galleries
Milan 2016: Italian design studio Tipic has created a smart kitchen countertop that integrates various interactive functions including a sink that appears out of the surface with a simple gesture (+ movie). More about Tipic's smart Tulèr kitchen features a sink that appears with the wave of a hand