This week on Dezeen: Apple's new iPhone came under fire this week, while MIT researchers proposed a system for driverless cars that could spell the end for traffic lights. More about This week, researchers planned the "death of traffic lights" and Apple downsized its iPhone
Designer and Bartlett School of Architecture tutor Stefan Bassing has used digital modelling to create a pair of tables, made from repetitive elements to simplify the production process. More about Stefan Bassing produces furniture from combinations of identical steel rods
Architecture firm ANMA has completed a new Paris headquarters for France's Department of Defence, featuring a faceted roofscape that extends to the ground around the entrance (+ slideshow). More about France's Department of Defence headquarters features an origami-like metal roof
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior architectural designer at Slade Architecture, the firm behind Mattel's first 'unapologetically feminine' Barbie flagship store in Shanghai (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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German architect Florian Busch conceived this Kyoto bar as one continuous space spread over eight levels to make the most of a narrow site in one of the city's oldest nightlife areas (+ slideshow). More about Continuous staircase connects eight levels in K8 bar building by Florian Busch
The main character in High Rise, a new movie based on JG Ballard's dystopian novel, is a residential tower that "doesn't care about the people inside it" and is designed by an arrogant architect. Director Ben Wheatley spoke exclusively to Dezeen about the film and why it "isn't a takedown of the architects of the 50s and 60s" (+ interview). More about High Rise is "not a criticism of post-war architecture" says director Ben Wheatley
Milan 2016: Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni has set up a new internet-based plastic furniture brand that he hopes will overcome the "irreconcilable gap" between physical and online retail. More about Stefano Giovannoni to launch Qeeboo online design brand in Milan
US firm Barker Freeman Design Office has renovated a slender brick row house in Brooklyn and added a two-storey extension with a glass wall overlooking a garden (+ slideshow). More about Barker Freeman overhauls narrow Brooklyn row house for a family of four
One half of this house in northeast France has a tiled roof and rendered walls, while the other is clad in corrugated plastic and has a chamfered corner (+ slideshow). More about Asymmetric French house designed by GENS as a collage of "banal components"
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a call for experienced design architects to join UNStudio in Amsterdam, whose projects include a theatre with a moving ceiling in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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With the demand for contemporary house extensions continuing across London unabated, architects office HÛT has updated an east London terrace with a new glazed dining room (+ slideshow). More about HÛT adds "jewel-like" glass extension to east London house
Fashion brand COS and furniture company Hay have added new home items to their collaborative range of products in time for spring (+ slideshow). More about COS and Hay update curated homeware collection for Spring 2016
Traditional Japanese floor mats define the proportions of this house in Niigata, designed by Tokmoto Architectures Room as a strict grid of squares (+ slideshow). More about Tatami mats create gridded layout for Kenrak Tokmoto's Inari House
The team behind a virtual reality tool that allows designers to sketch in three dimensions has launched an iPad app that turns drawings into virtual and physical 3D models (+ movie). More about Gravity Sketch app aims to "lower the barriers to 3D literacy"
Contemporary Japanese architects have created "a legacy with more consistency" than the famous names that dominate architecture elsewhere, says the curator of a major new MoMA exhibition (+ slideshow). More about Japanese architects have rejected the starchitect system says MoMA curator
These jewellery pieces by Singapore designer Soo Kyung Bae are intended to spark a debate about unrealistic body-image expectations portrayed by the media. More about Soo Kyung Bae's jewellery draws attention to the "thigh-gap trend"
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The booming market for luxury apartments in New York "is an issue" that could damage the city, according to hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager – and micro apartments could be the solution. More about Micro apartments could help cities retain their diversity says Ian Schrager
CC Arquitectos used weathered stone, natural wood and huge panels of glazing to create this secluded woodland house in Mexico's scenic Valle de Bravo region (+ slideshow). More about CC Arquitectos builds timber-framed Santana House in Mexican woodland
New Zealand residents have voted to stick with their existing flag after a competition that attracted over 10,000 designs and a national referendum, estimated to have cost NZ$26m. More about New Zealand rejects crowd-sourced flag design