Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this exclusive video interview, MINI's head of design Anders Warming explains why the car brand has developed a foldable electric scooter concept. More about MINI's Citysurfer scooter concept anticipates a car-less future for urban areas
Zaha Hadid Architects director Patrik Schumacher has hit out at "superficial and ignorant" criticism of iconic buildings and star architects. More about Patrik Schumacher launches attack on "ignorant" architecture critics
Competition: we're giving away a NAVA watch by designer Denis Guidone, courtesy of Dezeen Watch Store, for the best image of Milan's design week posted to Instagram using our #milanogram2015 hashtag. More about Competition: use the #milanogram2015 hashtag and you could win an Ora Unica watch
Interview: Megan Stone designs interiors for the USA's booming marijuana industry. She told Dezeen why "2015 is the year for cannabis in our country". More about "My mission is to elevate cannabis through design" says Megan Stone
A concrete pier stretches from the Tasmanian shoreline to the entrance of this hotel, which is set within a recently renovated turbine house on the centre of Australia's deepest lake (+ slideshow). More about Cumulus Studio converts an Art Deco pump house into a hotel on a Tasmanian lake
Extra Moooi: Dutch design brand Moooi is launching a new company called Moooi Carpets with an inaugural collection of photo-realistic designs by Studio Job, Ross Lovegrove, Neri&Hu and more in Milan today (+ slideshow). More about Moooi launches carpet company that can print photo-realistic designs
Perforated brickwork, an open-air living space and a roof covered in palm leaves are among the traditional methods used to improve the climate inside this house in Vietnam (+ slideshow). More about Vietnam house by MM++ Architects features a palm-leaf roof and an open-air living space
Interview: Nick Hufton and Allan Crow are the photographers of choice for designers including Zaha Hadid and Thomas Heatherwick. With their first exhibition now open in London, the pair spoke to Dezeen about the advantages of digital photography, and why retouching is just as important as shooting (+ slideshow). More about Architectural photography was "staged and contrived" before digital, say Hufton and Crow
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a microchip that can be lined with human cells to mimic the complex tissue structures of human organs. More about Tiny devices replicate human organs to provide an alternative drug-testing method
London studio Matheson Whiteley has revitalised a trio of dilapidated 1940s warehouses to create a new contemporary art gallery opposite one of the city's historic churches (+ slideshow). More about Modern Art gallery takes over three London warehouses opposite a Hawksmoor church
Milan 2015: Japanese wood furniture manufacturer Karimoku New Standard will present space-saving dining furniture by German designer Christian Haas in Milan next week. More about Karimoku New Standard's wooden chairs stack like supermarket trolleys
Milan 2015: we're heading to Milan to report on the city's annual festival of design exhibitions, installations and parties next week. Keep up with Dezeen's coverage of Milan 2015 on our new Pinterest board, which we'll be updating daily.
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A refurbished schoolhouse with a serrated profile forms one of three tourist facilities designed by OUJAE Architects for a remote but scenic island off the coast of South Korea (+ slideshow). More about Korean island visitor centre by OUJAE Architects features a remodelled schoolhouse
Milan 2015: Vienna-based designer Thomas Feichtner has created a chair by laying sheets of woven carbon fibre over a mould and coating them with epoxy resin. More about Thomas Feichtner sculpts chair from carbon-fibre sheets
Sports brand Adidas has accused fashion designer Marc Jacobs of producing "confusingly similar imitations" of its iconic three-stripe motif with sweatshirts bearing four stripes down each sleeve. More about Adidas sues Marc Jacobs for "tarnishing" three-stripe motif
Music: giant waves, gale-force winds and meteor strikes spoil idyllic scenes in this animated music video for German band Keimzeit (+ movie). More about Sonja Rohleder animates natural disasters for Keimzeit music video
When visitors step inside this viewing tower on the coastline of Lincolnshire, England, an inner chamber tilts forward so the nearby beach becomes visible through a pair of aligned horizontal slots (+ slideshow). More about Angular seaside tower by Gruff and MSA contains a viewing platform that moves underfoot
London studio Softroom has renovated a 19th-century village pub in southern England to host a culinary school, a bar and a glass-fronted restaurant (+ slideshow). More about Softroom converts thatched-roof pub into contemporary restaurant and cookery school
London designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have created a mismatched tableware range for British ceramics company Royal Doulton (+ slideshow). More about Barber & Osgerby designs miscellaneous tableware collection for Royal Doulton
This conceptual airborne structure is designed to absorb moisture from clouds and transport it to arid regions where it would be released as artificial rain to combat future environmental disasters. More about Cloud Capture is an imaginary flying machine for bringing rain to the desert