This week on Dezeen: this week British designer Thomas Heatherwick presented a structure comprising 154 staircases for a vast development in Manhattan's West Side and we geared up for next week's London Design Festival. More about This week, Heatherwick unveiled the centrepiece for New York's Hudson Yards development
Paul Cocksedge has unveiled the latest design in his mission to save vintage speakers from obsolescence, with a small Bluetooth device that can now provide stereo sound (+ movie). More about Paul Cocksedge's Vamp Stereo plays music wirelessly on any two old speakers
New York-based Ghiora Aharoni Design Studio has added curved oak panels and silver leafing to an apartment in an art-deco Manhattan building to better reflect its original style. More about Ghiora Aharoni uses art deco references for Chelsea pied-à-terre interior
US firm Chen + Suchart Studio has renovated and expanded a 1930s dwelling in Phoenix, Arizona, adding a metal-clad volume with a window wall and a pointy roof (+ slideshow). More about Chen + Suchart extends historic Arizona home with metal-clad gabled addition
Opinion: the light-filled, social spaces at Diller Scofidio + Renfro's medical education centre at Columbia University could make future doctors demand more from their workspaces and ultimately pave the way for better hospitals, says Alan G Brake. More about "DS+R's education building suggests architectural innovation can still be put to the public good"
Open House London takes place this weekend, giving members of the public access to 750 buildings. Dezeen editor Anna Winston picks 10 of the best houses and apartments that will open their doors to nosy visitors and architecture enthusiasts. More about 10 of the best private homes to explore in London during Open House
London Design Festival 2016: 50,000 metal triangles make up British designer Benjamin Hubert's undulating Foil installation, which casts light onto the V&A's medieval tapestries (+ movie). More about Benjamin Hubert lights V&A's medieval tapestry room with rippling steel installation
Brexit: the EU Referendum should never have happened according to German designer Konstantin Grcic, who said the decision by Britain's former prime minister David Cameron to host the vote was criminal. More about Brexit decision is "criminal" says Konstantin Grcic
A UK House of Commons committee has announced plans for an inquiry that will focus in part on employment within the creative industries post Brexit. More about UK parliament to launch inquiry into impact of Brexit on creative industries
This week we're counting down the most-pinned brick interiors on Dezeen, including an auditorium in the Netherlands featuring vertical brickwork and a converted 1920s shophouse in Singapore. More about 10 of the most popular brick interiors on Dezeen's Pinterest boards
London Design Festival 2016: French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has convincingly sculpted blocks of black marble to look like the sea for an installation at the V&A museum. More about Mathieu Lehanneur sculpts a seascape from blocks of black marble
Nendo has taken its collection of chairs based on Japanese manga comics to New York, where they are on show as part of a light installation at Friedman Benda gallery (+ movie). More about Nendo shows 50 Manga Chairs within light installation at New York's Friedman Benda
Dezeen promotion: New London Architecture is now accepting entries for Don't Move, Improve! 2017, a competition to find the best house extensions in London. More about Call for entries to NLA's Don't Move, Improve! awards 2017
London Design Festival 2016: architect Alison Brooks has pushed the limits of cross-laminated timber with The Smile, an inhabitable "mega-tube" with both of its ends raised up into the air (+ slideshow). More about Alison Brooks creates giant smile using cross-laminated tulipwood
London Design Festival 2016: Bocci's creative director Omer Arbel has created a site-specific lighting installation for London's Barbican Centre (+ movie). More about Omer Arbel suspends aluminium lighting sculpture above Barbican foyer
Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab has completed a house on the Spanish island of Mallorca, made up of white blocks that are all oriented towards different viewpoints (+ slideshow). More about Four angular white volumes form house in Mallorca by OHLAB
Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: OMA has teamed up with creative studio Bengler to propose Panda, a app that allows workers being exploited digital sharing platforms like Uber and Airbnb to fight back against their employers. More about OMA and Bengler propose digital platform to disrupt the sharing economy
The jagged form of this climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter is covered in grey, brown and white shingles that reference a snow-covered mountain behind the building (+ slideshow). More about Norwegian climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter resembles a snow-capped mountain
Brooklyn studio TA Dumbleton Architect took cues from two divergent typologies – an old farmhouse and a city loft – while designing this weekend retreat on Long Island in New York (+ slideshow). More about Giant window fills gable end of Hamptons guest house by TA Dumbleton
Brexit: the Royal Institute of British Architects has written to the UK's Brexit minister David Davis to warn that construction is facing a skills deficit. More about Brexit could trigger skills crisis in architecture and construction says RIBA