News: the winners of the 2013 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards have been announced, with Chicago-based collective Studio Gang Architects taking the prize for architecture. More about Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt announces National Design Awards winners
An Italian winery with terracotta vaults (above), 3D-printed guns and a skyscraper for bees all feature in Dezeen Mail issue 151, plus all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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An exhibition charting punk's influence on high fashion has opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this week. More about Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
News: after buildings that look like giant underpants and a stack of toilet rolls, here's a tower in Beijing that has been compared to a giant penis. More about Chinese newspaper headquarters compared to huge penis
News: a flying car capable of vertical takeoff and landing is being developed by the makers of a two-seater aircraft that turns into a car (+ movie). More about Vertical takeoff flying car concept unveiled
Product news: London designer Simon Pengelly has created these curved wooden chairs with cut-out backs for British furniture brand Modus. More about Norse chair by Simon Pengelly for Modus
Swedish designer Richard Lindvall has converted a car park near Stockholm into a restaurant and nightclub with copper pipes stretching across its walls and ceiling. More about Restaurang & Bar Nazdrowje by Richard Lindvall
Dezeen promotion: exhibition organiser designjunction is supporting design agent smallpond in showcasing products by American and European brands in New York from 18 to 20 May. More about INTRO NY by designjunction
Staircases zigzag between balconies and terraces on the facade of the Campbell Sports Centre, a new athletics facility by Steven Holl Architects for Columbia University in New York (+ slideshow). More about Campbell Sports Centre by Steven Holl Architects
Legendary New York book designer Massimo Vignelli describes his process when laying out a publication in this movie by design consultancy Pentagram. More about "The grid is the underwear of the book" - Massimo Vignelli
Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri used seaweed to create the shades of these lamps. More about Marine Light by Nir Meiri
Art galleries are held inside an illuminated glass tunnel and balanced high above the ground at this museum by Steven Holl, the centrepiece of an architecture complex in a forest near Nanjing, China. More about Nanjing Sifang Art Museum by Steven Holl Architects
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Milan, architect and designer Fabio Novembre takes us to a converted farm near the city centre and explains why he sees the project as an important response to Italy's ongoing economic crisis. More about "Milan used to be a place full of farms"
News: American firm SOM has unveiled plans to build Singapore's tallest tower as part of a mixed-use development in the Tanjong Pagar business district. More about SOM to build Singapore's tallest tower
News: architect Daniel Libeskind has been chosen to design a Holocaust memorial in the state capital of Ohio, USA. More about Libeskind picked for Ohio Holocaust memorial
Foster + Partners has completed a new gallery wing clad with golden pipes at the Lenbachhaus art museum in Munich (+ slideshow). More about Lenbachhaus museum by Foster + Partners
News: America's largest bicycle sharing scheme will begin this month in New York City, with 6000 bikes available to rent from docking stations in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. More about New York launches bike-share scheme
Eindhoven designer Paul Heijnen presented an articulated lamp like a huge wooden insect at Rossana Orlandi's Bagatti Valsecchi 2.0 exhibition in Milan (+ movie). More about Hyperion Spotlight by Paul Heijnen
News: Google has honoured American graphic designer Saul Bass with an animated doodle based on his iconic Hollywood title sequences and movie posters. More about Google Doodle celebrates graphic designer Saul Bass
This project by architecture collective Rumah Asuh involved the repair and reconstruction of the last remaining traditional thatched residences on Flores Island, Indonesia. More about Preservation of the Mbaru Niang by Rumah Asuh