Schjelderup Trondahl Architects’ Vardåsen House is topped with an angular timber box
This week, critics slammed China’s “mediocre” museums and praised floating architecture
Revolution Precrafted recruits famous architects and designers to create prefab homes
Car brands unafraid of Tesla’s electric challenge, says Audi marketing head
Thomas Heatherwick to redesign home of New York Philharmonic orchestra
Global Grad Show brought “groundbreaking” student work from around the world to Dubai
Perkins Eastman proposes turning New York’s Broadway into one long park
China “can’t buy culture” with museum boom, say critics
Patricia Urquiola overhauls Cassina’s New York showroom
Glass walls and terraces frame views from bright white house in Argentina
“Robots may force us to confront how we treat the people that currently make our cities tick”
Tomás Saraceno installs Aerocene metallic orbs in Paris’ Grand Palais
Adidas combines ocean plastic and 3D printing for eco-friendly trainers
Oregon fire station by Hennebery Eddy features a burnt wood facade
US job of the week: communications director at Studio Gang Architects
Dezeen wins independent publishing award for “elegantly made and truly engaging video”
Llowarch Llowarch Architects completes raven enclosure for the Tower of London
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Kurilpa Bridge by Cox Rayner Architects and Arup
Job of the week: curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture at the V&A
Henning Larsen Architects bases Microsoft headquarters on Bill Gates’ workplace theory
Sight Unseen’s LA exhibition showcases work from “focal point of the American design scene”
Seattle running store by goCstudio has hanging racks that can be raised toward the ceiling
Synthetic biology is turning into industrial design, says Daisy Ginsberg
