News: two European companies have launched rival Android-powered smartwatches at the Baselworld watch fair in Switzerland, bringing voice calls as well as email, video, camera and apps to devices worn on the wrist. More about Android smartwatches mean you can "leave your phone at home"
News: next month's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York will be the first major design fair to place 3D printing and digital fabrication at the core of its programme, with a four-day series of workshops introducing the hardware and software that could change the face of design, manufacturing and distribution (+ interview). More about 3D printing and digital design lead ICFF 2013 programme
News: crafts will no longer be considered part of the creative industries under proposals published by the UK government this week. More about UK to drop crafts from list of creative industries
News: online design retailer Fab.com has announced it will design its own range of furniture and homeware to be sold alongside its existing inventory. More about Fab.com to design its own range of products
Here are the latest images of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' extension to the British Museum in London, set to complete early next year. More about World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Milan 2013: Rossana Orlandi curated an exhibition of work by designers including Nacho Carbonell, Front and Studio Libertiny at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan. More about Bagatti Valsecchi 2.0 exhibition by Rossana Orlandi
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu sliced away the rear wall and replaced it with glass for this renovation of a 1930s townhouse in Shanghai. More about Rethinking the Split House by Neri&Hu
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five packs of greeting cards illustrated with buildings by Le Corbusier. More about Competition: five packs of Le Corbusier greeting cards to be won
A wooden wall with the silhouette of three little buildings lines the edge of this house extension in Melbourne by Australian architecture studio BLOXAS (+ slideshow). More about Profile House by BLOXAS
Dutch interiors studio i29 has added plywood walls, furniture and surfaces to every room inside this house in North Holland (+ slideshow). More about Home 09 by i29
News: Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have won a competition to transform the central railway area of Bari, a city in southern Italy, with a proposal to build a three-kilometre-long elevated park over the track. More about Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas to redesign central railway area of Bari, Italy
A bicycle that can be pedalled with hands and feet at the same time has been developed by Dutch studio TSG Essempio. More about 4StrikeBike by TSG Essempio
News: Herzog & de Meuron has been chosen to design the new National Library of Israel in Jerusalem after the initial competition winner was dismissed over a copyright dispute. More about Herzog & de Meuron wins second competition for National Library of Israel
News: Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik, Iceland, by Henning Larsen Architects and artist Olafur Eliasson has won this year's European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award. More about Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2013
Milan 2013: Foster + Partners has designed a coffee table made by stretching a perforated disk of steel upwards to form a metal-mesh base. More about Teso table by Foster + Partners for Molteni&C
This asterisk-shaped restaurant and winery at the centre of a lake near Beijing is our second story in the last week about Chinese studio SAKO Architects (+ slideshow). More about Asterisk by SAKO Architects
Arched openings bring students past shimmering tiled buildings and into landscaped courtyards at this grammar school near Melbourne by Australian architects McBride Charles Ryan (slideshow). More about Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Senior by McBride Charles Ryan
Walls appear to be peeling back from the facade of this house by Chinese office AZL Architects, one of 24 architect-designed buildings underway in a forest near Nanjing, China. More about Blockhouse by AZL Architects
Milan 2013: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created chunky grey seating resembling the jagged forms of an iceberg for Swedish furniture brand Offecct. More about Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud for Offecct
Dezeen archive: we've published a few buildings covered in thatch recently, so here's a roundup of more examples from the Dezeen archives. See all our stories about thatched architecture »
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