Contenders for this year's Beazley Designs of the Year awards include Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Shed, a pocket-sized home HIV test kit, and the world's first genderless voice. More about Designs of the Year 2019 nominees include genderless voice and home HIV test kit
British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert will speak at the Dezeen Day conference in London on 30 October. More about Benjamin Hubert to speak about building a design business at Dezeen Day
Joichi Ito has stepped down as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab after The New Yorker magazine claimed he made efforts to hide donations from American businessman and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. More about MIT Media Lab director resigns after allegedly covering up Jeffrey Epstein donations
Dark surfaces and an array of warm materials helped Studio Four create a cosy series of rooms behind the black facade of this Melbourne family home. More about Studio Four channels hygge inside Melbourne family home
Danish brand Veark has developed a chef's knife that is manufactured using a drop-forged process that creates a unique texture on the handle of each product. More about Veark's CK01 knife is made from a single piece of steel
Architecture studio Bureau de Change has covered a Cotswolds house formed of a pair of interlocking barn-style buildings in stone and larch, which has been charred for a graduated effect. More about Bureau de Change covers barn-style Cotswolds house with ombré effect charred larch
A large window punctures white-painted brickwork to reveal fashion brand Everlane's store in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighbourhood, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. More about Everlane opens minimal Brooklyn store featuring painted brick and pale wood
Architect Andrew Bromberg at Aedas has revealed the design for an extension to the home of Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in Canada, featuring rounded glass walls, a slatted stone roof and an elevated garden. More about Slatted stone encloses glass extension for Edmonton Symphony Orchestra by Andrew Bromberg
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg will give a keynote lecture at Dezeen Day in London on 30 October. More about Artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg to speak at Dezeen Day
Bangkok designer Apiwat Chitapanya has created a collection for specialist brass furniture brand Masaya that emulates Chinese ink paintings through the process of lost-wax casting. More about Chinese ink paintings come alive in Apiwat Chitapanya's wax-cast furniture
An apartment shortlisted for Dezeen Awards has been disqualified after an eagle-eyed commenter noticed that the images submitted were computer renders rather than photos. More about Interior shortlisted for Dezeen Awards disqualified after commenter spots "subtle cues" that images are fake
Rooms are organised around gardens and courtyards in this northern California dwelling, which Feldman Architecture has lifted above the ground in order to protect tree roots. More about Feldman Architecture integrates The Sanctuary house into lush Silicon Valley site
Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has clad the facades of Solstice on the Park, a residential tower in Chicago designed by Studio Gang, in modular concrete panels. More about Studio Gang clads Chicago high-rise in energy-saving concrete panels
The UK government says building owners will face "consequences" if they do not use a new £200 million fund to remove dangerous cladding, 26 months after the Grenfell Tower Fire. More about Government threatens to "name and shame" owners that do not replace Grenfell-style cladding
Takeru Shoji Architects has completed a home in the Japanese city of Uonuma, with small rooms suspended above a double-height living space which sits in a "live-in foundation". More about Takeru Shoji Architects designs Japanese home with "live-in foundations"
Engine noise, fumes and carbon emissions are all nonexistent with X Shore, one of the first electric boat-makers to target the consumer market. More about X Shore electric boats designed for emission-free sea travel
London pop-up store Pass on Plastic was decorated floor to ceiling with wallpaper depicting plastic waste to serve as a visual reminder to consumers of the growing problem of ocean plastic. More about Shed prints plastic pollution on walls to highlight the problem of ocean waste
We've selected five of the best architecture and design positions on Dezeen Jobs, including vacancies at Californian studio Belzberg Architects and British firm John McAslan + Partners. More about This week's top architecture and design roles include jobs at Belzberg Architects and John McAslan + Partners
Hyundai has created a prototype scooter that folds down to the size of a backpack and can be charged in a car using the energy created while driving. More about Hyundai reveals foldable electric scooter designed to be charged in its cars
A zigzagging structure of spruce beams supports the roof of a science laboratory at the Eleanor Palmer Primary School in Kentish Town, London, designed by AY Architects. More about AY Architects adds timber science laboratory to London school