This lakefront weekend home in Massachusetts by Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design features protrusions that gesture toward the sky and water (+ slideshow). More about Taylor and Miller creates sculptural weekend home beside a Massachusetts lake
Prolific Japanese studio Nendo has created a new edition of Swiss watch brand TAG Heuer's Carrera model that features ornate red hands. More about Nendo adds antique-style watch hands to TAG Heuer's Carrera racing timepiece
Design Miami 2015: Dutch designer Lex Pott and US wallpaper brand Calico have created products that highlight the qualities of stone, including marble furniture and wallpaper covered with stone powder (+ slideshow). More about Stone-powder wallpaper features in Fragments exhibition at Design Miami
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Leong Leong, which co-designed the textured facade of City View Garage in Miami's Design District (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Opinion: is the idea of the smart city really just another way for big businesses to make even more money, asks Reinier de Graaf, who revisits the subject against his own better judgement. More about "The smart city is the ultimate free-for-all"
Benjamin Hubert's London studio Layer has designed a modular screen system made up of triangular hemp tiles for Australian textile company Woven Image (+ slideshow). More about Layer uses large hemp tiles to create tessellating Scale partition system
Design Miami 2015: a miniature terrarium and a cluster of small balloons coated in blue resin are among the bespoke Christmas tree ornaments by US designers that are being sold to raise money for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. More about US designers create Christmas decorations to raise funds for Detroit museum
The fourth bridge in our alphabetical Christmas countdown is a structure in Norway by artist Vebjørn Sand, which is based on a previously unrealised design by Leonardo da Vinci. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Da Vinci Bridge by Vebjørn Sand
Movie: Abwab creative director Rawan Kashkoush describes how pavilions showcased the "differences and nuances" of design from the United Arab Emirates and surrounding countries, in this movie produced by Dezeen for Dubai Design Week. More about Abwab pavilions "empower design" from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia
The hexagonal pyramids on the roof of this museum are now covered in a layer of grass, helping the building settle into its marshland environment in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Studio Marco Vermeulen adds grass blanket over rooftop pyramids of Dutch island museum
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for director of the Architecture Design Fashion department at the British Council, which recently commissioned an exhibition of work by designer Thomas Heatherwick (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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This Seattle optometry store by local firm Best Practice Architecture features mirrored surfaces and a steel-framed enclosure shaped like a house. More about Seattle eyewear store by Best Practice Architecture is designed to "toy with perception"
This concrete residence by Santiago studio Felipe Assadi Architects extends across the craggy cliffs of the Los Vilos coastline in Chile's Coquimbo region (+ slideshow). More about Concrete house by Felipe Assadi stretches along the rugged Chilean coastline
Students from the Free University of Bolzano have created a collection of alternative pencil sharpeners, with designs including rings, a planing tool and a sandpaper bra (+ slideshow). More about Italian university students redesign the humble pencil sharpener
This concrete house in Mexico by New York- and Tijuana-based T38 Studio is organised as a nine-square grid with a courtyard at its centre (+ slideshow). More about Courtyard house in Tijuana by T38 Studio is based on a nine-square grid
Design Miami 2015: Mexican architect Fernando Romero has created a glowing ball of 2,880 crystals accompanied by a soundtrack of noises made by the sun. More about Fernando Romero's El Sol resembles a glowing red sun made from thousands of bespoke crystals
Design Miami 2015: a group of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design has built a temporary entrance pavilion from architectural models outside the Design Miami fair. More about Harvard Students create pink pavilion of 200 elevated models outside Design Miami
Snøhetta has completed a student centre for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, featuring chamfered edges and a patterned glass facade (+ slideshow). More about Fritted glass creates patterned facade for Ryerson University student centre by Snøhetta
Colour company Pantone has unveiled a mix of pastel pink and blue shades as its Colour of the Year 2016. More about Pantone reveals first two-tone colour of the year with Rose Quartz and Serenity
This week's Dezeen Mail includes Herzog & de Meuron's new stadium design for Chelsea football club (pictured), Zaha Hadid's dining pavilion shaped like an open clamshell and the latest news from Design Miami 2015.
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