Modernist lamps by mid-century French designers including Pierre Guariche and Jean-Boris Lacroix are on show at Galerie Kreo in London's Mayfair. More about The Enlightened 50s lighting exhibition illuminates London's Galerie Kreo
Danish firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have won a competition to design the world's largest waste-to-energy power plant in China (+ movie). More about World's largest waste-to-energy plant proposed for Shenzhen
Stuttgart architect Achim Menges has developed designs for a robot-fabricated pavilion based on the wings of flying beetles, which will be erected in the V&A museum courtyard in London. More about Robot-built pavilion proposed by Achim Menges for V&A museum courtyard
Green-coloured subway tiles are paired with lemon-yellow shelving inside skincare brand Aesop's second Milan branch, recently completed by locally based Dimore Studio (+ slideshow). More about Dimore Studio designs glossy teal interior for Aesop Magenta store
Rotterdam studio Monadnock used a variety of brickwork techniques to create the patterned facade of this viewing tower, designed to offer a new landmark for the small Dutch town of Nieuw-Bergen. More about Monadnock's Abstract Tower features patterned walls of red and green brickwork
People in the Netherlands will soon be able to cycle over the world's first 3D-printed steel bridge on the world's first 3D-printed steel bicycle (+ movie). More about Arc Bicycle has 3D-printed steel frame created by TU Delft students and MX3D
Korean studio Platform_a has completed a cafe with pivoting mirrored-glass doors and volcanic stone walls on Jeju, a volcanic island off the coast of mainland South Korea (+ slideshow). More about Platform_a completes reflective glass and volcanic stone cafe on Jeju island coast
American architect Richard Meier says his first Korean project, the Seamarq Hotel, has qualities that are similar to influential homes he designed in the 1960s and 70s (+ movie). More about Richard Meier's first project in South Korea is a waterfront hotel for the Winter Olympics
Danish practice PLH Arkitekter has based its design for this visitor centre at a Viking landmark in Denmark on a circular shield (+ slideshow). More about PLH Arkitekter reveals plans for shield-shaped visitor centre at Danish Viking site
Soft tones and metallic details feature across the two floors of this London boutique created by Barber and Osgerby's Universal Design Studio for fashion brand J&M Davidson (+ slideshow). More about Universal Design Studio uses muted colours and brass fittings for J&M Davidson store
Zaha Hadid has rejected claims that her architecture is self-indulgent and wilful, believing that she is "widely misunderstood" by the mainstream. More about "Architecture is not a medium of personal expression for me" says Zaha Hadid
Japanese designer Yuta Takahashi created the pared-back packaging for these natural chocolate bars to reflect their simple ingredients (+ slideshow). More about Yuta Takahashi designs minimal packaging for natural chocolate bars
Dezeen promotion: British designer Jasper Morrison has created a collection of furniture for Danish brand Fredericia, which will launch during this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair (+ slideshow). More about Fredericia launches furniture collection designed by Jasper Morrison
Architecture firm Grimshaw has designed a 14-storey school complex for New South Wales, which it describes as a "totally new typology" (+ slideshow). More about Grimshaw unveils plans for high-rise school complex on Sydney's outskirts
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are joining the teaching staff at Parsons design school in New York, after leaving the Design Interactions course at London's Royal College of Art last year. More about Dunne and Raby move to Parsons following RCA departure
The upper storey of this concrete house by Clavel Arquitectos cantilevers out from the lower storey by 10 metres, stretching towards mountain views in Spain's Murcia region (+ slideshow). More about Clavel Arquitectos creates extreme concrete cantilever for Crossed House in Spain
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels claims his Copenhagen housing development has accomplished the social mission Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson set out to achieve with their "streets in sky" concept in the 1960s and 1970s. More about BIG's 8 House succeeds where the Smithsons' "streets in the sky" failed, says Bjarke Ingels
Taxi service Uber has launched a new identity designed by the company's CEO, which presents users in different countries with customised colours and patterns, and which has already been compared to an "asshole". More about Uber rebrands with location-specific "asshole" logos based on bathroom tiles
Traditional Japanese interiors and natural landscapes influenced the design of this apartment in Moscow, which was recently renovated by local studio M17 (+ slideshow). More about M17 adds faceted wooden wall to renovated Moscow Apartment
Feathers on the shoulders of this jacket by fashion designer Birce Ozkan ruffle up when the wearer faces north (+ movie). More about Birce Ozkan's feathered Augmented Jacket doubles as a navigational aid