Not a fan of cold turkey? London product design firm Seymourpowell has developed a conceptual app to "design out Christmas food waste" for a future free from excessive leftovers. More about Seymourpowell's Waste-Free Christmas Dinner Maker is an app to tackle festive food waste
News: three international design teams, including architects Snøhetta and Allied Works, have developed designs for Hawaii's bid to host Barack Obama's presidential library. More about Hawaii unveils designs for Obama Presidential Centre bid
This glazed garden pavilion by architecture studio Barkow Leibinger offers scenic study spaces for resident fellows at the American Academy in Berlin (+ slideshow). More about Barkow Leibinger's Fellows Pavilion offers study spaces in a lakeside garden
News: NASA's Space Mission Analysis Branch has unveiled a research project to send astronauts to Venus, envisioning "lighter-than-air" pods that could hover above the clouds to house explorers. More about NASA wants to explore Venus with inflatable air-born "habitats"
Japanese studio Nendo has created a collection of shirts with integrated accessories for men and a range fastened with cufflinks for women. More about Nendo twists traditional details to enliven simple white shirts
Hexagonal slate tiles cover this extension to a west London home designed by architects Christian Ducker and Tyeth Gundry to create a bright and spacious new kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Gundry and Ducker's Slate House is an extension clad with hexagonal tiles
Made from almost 500 metres of rope, the Vermelha Chair by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana is our A-Zdvent calendar's letter V. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Vermelha Chair by Campana brothers
A grid of white concrete frames the alternating glass and timber walls of this library in a French village by Studio 02 Architectes (+ slideshow). More about French village library by Studio 02 Architectes presents a gridded facade of wood and glass
Movable egg-shaped huts on a beach in South Korea were popular with readers this week, so we've collected together 13 strange and beautiful examples of mobile residences, refuges and retreats from the pages of Dezeen – including a tiny house delivered via helicopter. More about 13 unusual mobile homes and hideaways
Hungarian architecture studio Hello Wood has created an 11-metre-high Christmas tree for a square in central Budapest from 15,000 kilograms of wooden logs (+ movie). More about Hello Wood builds Budapest Christmas tree from 5000 pieces of firewood
The bulbous Up5 Chair by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce follows on from the 20 iconic seat designs we've already featured for our A-Zdvent calendar. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Up5 Chair by Gaetano Pesce
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News: the Prince of Wales has called for urbanists to "reconnect with traditional approaches" in an essay that lays out his vision for the future of architecture and planning. More about Prince Charles reveals 10 principles for "more mature view" of urban design
The concrete and chipboard components of this irregularly shaped holiday home in Japan have been designed to deal with the difficult conditions of its woodland site, from restricted lighting to hilly topography (+ slideshow). More about House by Double Negatives Architecture adapted to suit a difficult woodland site
Movie: in the final video interview from our exclusive series, architect Moshe Safdie says that architects are too concerned with designing objects to create skyscrapers that work with the city. More about Architects "haven't learned" how to connect skyscrapers to the public realm, says Safdie
Music: director Nuno Barbosa layered images of pop artist Emmy Curl over her body during this one-take music video for her single Come Closer. More about Emmy Curl's own image is projected onto her face in Come Closer music video
This rust-coloured copper home extension by British studio Poulsom Middlehurst sits above the red-brick walls and clay-tiled roof of a Victorian terrace in east London. More about Poulsom Middlehurst adds copper-clad extension to east London attic flat
Swedish studio Form Us With Love has designed an all-white interior for a Stockholm boutique dedicated to coloured pens. More about Form Us With Love uses monochrome palette for Pen Store interior
A staple in cafes around the world, Thonet's steam-bent No 14 chair is T in the alphabetical list of iconic seats we're publishing each day until Christmas. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Thonet No 14 Chair
This week London firm Stanton Williams completed a home designed to evoke "the spirit of a treehouse" (pictured), and we featured interviews with world-famous architects Zaha Hadid, Moshe Safdie and Álvaro Siza. Read on for more architecture and design highlights. More about This week on Dezeen