New York 2015: New York design isn't just about lighting. In the latest in our series of interviews with the city's designers, Marc Thorpe explains why multidisciplinary studios like his are the ones finding favour with European brands (+ slideshow). More about "America is not a style, America is an idea" says Marc Thorpe
Lego models by world-famous architects (pictured), a housing development by Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, and augmented reality designs for cyclists feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for our pick of the best news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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This beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects is raised above the landscape, helping it to have a minimal impact on the fragile coastal ecosystem of its Cape Cod setting (+ slideshow). More about Beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects designed to "curve and shift" with the landscape
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Taschen to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book filled with examples of cabin architecture. More about Competition: five Cabins books to be won
A faceted glass dome peaks above the prayer hall of Toronto's new Charles Correa-designed Islamic cultural centre, which shares a patch of parkland with Fumihiko Maki's Aga Khan Museum (+ slideshow). More about Charles Correa's crystalline Islamic centre joins the Aga Khan Museum in a Toronto park
Social network LinkedIn's offices in New York's Empire State Building include a room lined with vintage telephones that leads to a secret bar (+ slideshow). More about LinkedIn offices in the Empire State Building include a hidden speakeasy
London-based Soup Architects has completed a pair of matching artist's studios between the trees and pond of a garden in Suffolk, England (+ slideshow). More about Soup Architects adds a pair of art studios to a leafy Suffolk garden
The tiled roof of this residence in Switzerland has been raised by one metre to provide extra height for the newly renovated spaces within. More about Studio Inches raises the roof of a Swiss home to create a lofty living space
This augmented modelling tool enables users to touch, poke, rub or pinch geometric forms projected onto their skin to design wearable 3D-printed pieces (+ movie). More about Manipulated light projections become 3D-printed jewellery with Tactum
Designer Paul Cocksedge has completed a spiral staircase featuring a garden, a library and a tea bar (+ slideshow). More about Paul Cocksedge's Living Staircase includes plants, a mini library and tea-brewing facilities
A trio of overlapping buildings all pointed in different directions make up this house in South Korea, designed by Engineforce Architects to accommodate a family of three (+ slideshow). More about Every occupant has their own domain in South Korean home by Engineforce Architects
Incubating chicken eggs and objects made by prison inmates are among the artefacts currently on view in a tiny museum in a New York City alleyway (+ slideshow). More about Tiny New York museum showcases objects obtained through rapid-response collecting
Angular balconies and timber panelling characterise these housing developments by architects Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, both located in Milan's fast-growing City Life district (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind build a community of 650 homes in Milan
Google is experimenting with smart textile design, weaving conductive threads into clothes to create touch-sensitive panels that work like smartphone screens (+ movie). More about Google weaves smartphone interfaces into clothes for Project Jacquard
Taking cues from Japanese gardens, landscape architecture firm Surface Design has created a series of planted terraces for a renovated home in San Francisco (+ slideshow). More about Surface Design creates verdant terraces for Butterfly House in San Francisco
Graduate shows 2015: garments appear to be carved from stone in University of East London graduate Yuri Pardi's Minimalism-influenced fashion collection. More about Yuri Pardi incorporates geometric blocks into Monument graduate fashion collection
Each floor of this timber-clad family home on an Amsterdam peninsula features wide windows and steel-framed balconies, offering views out over the IJ river (+ slideshow). More about A Room with a View by MeesVisser is an Amsterdam home overlooking the IJ river
Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has extended its beer exhibition at the city's Spritmuseum to include a venue for outdoor drinking (+ slideshow). More about Form Us With Love creates waterfront beer garden for a Stockholm museum
Dutch architecture office UNStudio has completed the first two buildings of a major new university campus in Singapore, designed as a seamless network of rooms, balconies and courtyards (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio completes first buildings for new Singapore university campus
Dezeen's social media editor Ross Bryant has been given the British Society of Magazine Editors Rising Stars award for Best Use of Social Media. More about Dezeen's social media editor wins magazine industry award