News: Danish studio BIG has been appointed to lead a team of architects and engineers to redesign the campus of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. More about BIG to restructure Smithsonian Institution campus
Italian industrial designer Diego Vencato has created a collection of wooden textiles (+ slideshow). More about Wooden Mesh by Diego Vencato
White light glows through the translucent facades of this workshop in Siegen, Germany, by Ian Shaw Architekten (+ slideshow). More about Workshop Siegen by Ian Shaw Architekten
German designer Leoni Werle has created a bell-shaped lamp that can seesaw between upright and inclined. More about Pilu lamp by Leoni Werle
Australian architects MPRDG were inspired by the shapes of tree branches to add a privacy screen across the glass-fronted upper storey of this family house in the Sydney suburb of Bronte (+ slideshow). More about Hewlett House by MPRDG
News: Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and American firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) have been chosen to design a Lego visitor experience centre in Billund, Denmark. More about BIG and RAA to design Lego visitor centre in Denmark
Product news: these large, modular, compressed-felt lamp shades by Stockholm studio Form Us With Love are designed to create a cosy environment around a table (+ slideshow). More about Hood by Form Us With Love for Ateljé Lyktan
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed five new boutiques for Milan-based fashion designer Neil Barrett, with each one containing portions of an abstract volume that was designed in one piece (+ slideshow). More about Neil Barrett Shop in Shop by Zaha Hadid Architects
This movie by German art director Mike Meiré for bathroom and kitchen brand Dornbracht features one shower that makes you feel like you're washing outdoors and another that you use lying down. More about Sensory Sky by Sieger Design for Dornbracht
Zig-zagging pleats embellish the facade of this wedding centre in Saitama, Japan, in our fourth recent story about the work of architect Hironaka Ogawa (+ slideshow). More about Pleats.M by Hironaka Ogawa
Interview: architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio was in London last week to launch Canaletto, a residential tower being built in the east of the city. He spoke to Dezeen about the project, about his plans to create the first open-source architecture studio and about the "devastatingly difficult" situation for architects in the Netherlands. More about Architecture "is still in the Walkman phase" - Ben van Berkel
This narrow house on a high street in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates features a glazed ground-floor gallery (+ slideshow). More about Flag by Apollo Architects & Associates
This yellow lamp by Ukraine designer Vasiliy Butenko can be adjusted in any direction by rotating the flat, pivoting disc that forms its shade. More about OOO Lamp by Vasiliy Butenko
This mirror-clad visitor centre by Australian firm Charles Wright Architects was designed to be invisible amongst the surrounding trees of the Cairns Botanic Gardens in Queensland. More about Cairns Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre by Charles Wright Architects
Italian design studio Pininfarina unveiled a two-seater concept vehicle without a windshield at the Geneva Motor Show last week (+ slideshow + movie). More about Sergio concept car by Pininfarina
Japanese design studio Nendo covered this series of tables in paper and applied colour using crayons. More about Colored-pencil table by Nendo
News: automated tools threaten to make designers redundant as machine algorithms replace human creativity, the Mayor of London's former cultural strategy manager has claimed. More about Creative jobs will be "mechanised and outsourced just like car manufacturing"
Construction is now underway on a Zaha Hadid-designed cultural complex on the edge of a lake in Changsha, China (+ movie). More about Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
The criss-crossing bands of these running shoes by Nike are inspired by a Chinese finger trap. More about Nike Free Trainer 5.0 by Nike
Glass panels slide into the walls to create an outdoor living room at this lakeside house outside São Paulo by Brazilian architects Studio Arthur Casas (+ slideshow). More about Casa Itu by Studio Arthur Casas