Google's self-driving car, a proposal for clearing plastic waste from the world's oceans and a concrete university building in Santiago are among the category winners for this year's Designs of the Year awards. More about Designs of the Year 2015 category winners announced
American architecture firm SOM has completed work on a controversial 50-storey hotel and condominium tower on a site directly opposite New York's Museum of Modern Art. More about SOM's Baccarat tower in New York overlooks MoMA's sculpture garden
This week on Dezeen we reported on David Chipperfield's plans for London's Royal Academy of Arts, the Mies van der Rohe Award winner for 2015 and the "world's first" multi-storey skatepark. Click through for a roundup of architecture and design news from the past seven days. More about This week on Dezeen
British architect David Adjaye has filled the largest exhibition space at the Venice Biennale with a temporary museum and has also created a live events space for a seven-month reading of Karl Marx's Das Kapital (+ slideshow). More about David Adjaye creates temporary museum for Venice Art Biennale 2015
After almost five years in the making, architecture studio FAT and artist Grayson Perry have completed their fairytale-inspired Essex holiday home, which was designed as a shrine to the fictional character Julie Cope (+ slideshow). More about Grayson Perry and FAT reveal the elaborate interiors of their House for Essex
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with furniture company H and the Affordable Art Fair to give away two of the brand's Barrel Trays, along with tickets to this year's event in London for the winners and three runners up. More about Competition: win Barrel Trays by H and Affordable Art Fair tickets
Milan 2015: bike manufacturer AERO created this prototype bicycle frame from layers of birch to test wooden structural techniques that can be applied to architectural projects (+ slideshow). More about AERO designs wooden bicycle frame to explore techniques for architecture
New York 2015: Brooklyn industrial design student Kai Lin has created a contemporary furniture set for jail cells in juvenile detention centres in the US. More about US student Kai Lin designs furniture for youth prison cells
This house in Tokyo was constructed using an industrially manufactured steel framework and cladding, making it look more like a factory than a residence (+ slideshow). More about Niji Architects uses steel components to build factory-like Boundary House
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has designed a temporary addition to a 17th-century Venetian palazzo, featuring a curved structure covered with 90,000 empty containers usually used to hold eyeshadow. More about Shigeru Ban's Venice biennale installation is made from thousands of makeup cases
British architect Guy Hollaway has unveiled plans for the "world's first" purpose-built multi-storey skatepark, which he says will help prevent young people from moving away from a sleepy British seaside town (+ slideshow). More about Guy Hollaway plans to "put Folkestone on the map" with world's first multi-storey skatepark
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a chief curator at London's Design Museum (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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London studio Haworth Tompkins has completed its £80 million refurbishment of Brutalist icon the National Theatre, including the addition of an all-new aluminium-clad theatre production facility (+ slideshow). More about Haworth Tompkins completes renovation of Denys Lasdun's National Theatre
Milan 2015: British architecture firm Foster + Partners has created a minimal pendant lamp from two metal discs for Italian lighting manufacturer Lumina. More about Foster + Partners designs simple disc-shaped pendant lamp for Lumina
Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed an art gallery in Marfa, Texas, which is the Stockholm studio's first completed project in the USA. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune pays tribute to Donald Judd with first US building
New York architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has unveiled a preliminary design for a new museum in Colorado Springs dedicated to the legacy of US Olympic and Paralympic athletes (+ slideshow). More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils spiralling design for US Olympic Museum
Opinion: Elon Musk is a real-life Tony Stark – a billionaire CEO who wants to change the world. With the launch of his energy-storing batteries for powering our homes, he may actually be developing the technology to do it, says Dan Hill. More about "Elon Musk's Powerwall could change the carbon footprint of entire societies"
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans to build a high-density housing development in Monterrey, Mexico, despite having been asked to design a series of high-rise towers (+ movie). More about Zaha Hadid plans sinuous apartment complex for first project in Mexico
A ride in Norman Foster's helicopter, a chance to test Bjarke Ingel's smoke-ring-blowing power plant chimney in Copenhagen, a hot-tub hangout with Charles Renfro, and a birdwatching adventure with Jeanne Gang are among prizes being auctioned off by an American nonprofit organisation. More about Starchitect experiences offered as auction prizes
David Chipperfield's renovation plans for the Royal Academy of Arts, this year's Mies van der Rohe Award winner and a Beijing school featuring a faceted concrete ceiling (pictured) 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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