Dutch Design Week 2014: Dutch designer Roderick Vos has created a collection of tables and benches using structural supports with H-shaped profiles, more commonly found in architecture (+ slideshow). More about Blakeley furniture by Studio Roderick Vos is built from architectural joists
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects designed this wedge-shaped museum near Aarhus with a planted roof that rises from the sloping landscape to create a site for picnics in summer and sledging in winter (+ slideshow). More about Visitors to Henning Larsen's Moesgaard Museum can walk over its grassy sloping roof
Interieur 2014: Belgian creative agency Dift has enlisted furniture brands including Artifort and IKEA to turn the rooms of a school set for demolition into temporary hotel suites during Biennale Interieur 2014 (+ slideshow). More about Dift utilises doomed Belgian school to create Eyes/Nights Only hotel
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: advanced 3D mapping of our built environment could one day allow us to "stop and rewind time," claims London designer Keiichi Matsuda (+ movie). More about Advances in digital technology could make "time travel possible"
Dyson has launched its first humidifier, which uses ultraviolet light to kill waterborne bacteria before the air is dispersed. More about Dyson's first humidifier uses ultraviolet light to kill bacteria
Dutch Design Week 2014: Eindhoven designer Piet Hein Eek has created a line of spectacles and sunglasses with frames made from two strips of titanium for Amsterdam brand More Eyewear. More about Piet Hein Eek's first eyewear range debuts at Dutch Design Week
News: Chinese president Xi Jinping has called for an end to the "weird architecture" that has come as a result of China's construction boom. More about "No more weird architecture" says Chinese president
News: the Puls smartwatch by music producer Will.i.am is due to go on sale in the USA and UK later this year, featuring special edition designs created by architect Zaha Hadid. More about Will.i.am launches Puls smart "cuff" with special editions by Zaha Hadid
A perforated brick wall encloses a series of internal courtyards and gardens at the latest Maggie's Centre for cancer care, designed by Edinburgh office Reiach and Hall Architects (+ slideshow). More about Reiach and Hall adds walled gardens to Maggie's Centre Lanarkshire
Japanese design studio Nendo has created a series of modular desk units for office furniture and supplies brand Kokuyo to complement its existing Brackets sofa (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's modular office tables create "casual spaces for standing conversation"
News: London's Design Museum has announced it will offer visitors free entry to its permanent collection from 2016 under a new UK VAT refund scheme, set up to encourage museums and galleries to scrap entrance charges. More about London's Design Museum to offer free entry from 2016
News: Amsterdam agency Lemz has taken away the top honour at this year's Dutch Design Awards for Sweetie: a virtual 10-year-old girl created to catch perpetrators of webcam child sex tourism (+ movie). More about Lemz wins Dutch Design Award 2014 with avatar for fighting child sex tourism online
News: today's Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 382nd birthday of British architect Christopher Wren with an animation showing the rise of St Paul's Cathedral. More about Google animates St Paul's Cathedral to celebrate Christopher Wren's birthday
A mixture of simple windows and double-height glazing bring light and views into the back of this Belgian house, which NU Architectuuratelier has converted from flats into a family home (+ slideshow). More about Assorted windows and diagonal cladding feature on renovated home by NU Architectuuratelier
Italian designer Marco Guazzini has created a console with drawers that slide along its length to create different configurations (+ slideshow). More about Drawers slide along the surface of Marco Guazzini's Flamingo desk
This Portuguese house has been completely transformed by architects Rui Vieira Oliveira and Vasco Manuel Fernandes, with a new structure that rests on top of the original home's granite walls (+ slideshow). More about Taíde House was built over the granite walls of a family's original residence
Could this modern concrete and glass house have been the catalyst for the end of a marriage? Yes, according to a black and white movie made by Studio MK27, the architects behind the project (+ movie). More about Casa Redux by Studio MK27: the cause of a marriage collapse?
American brand Quell & Company has referenced Scandinavian home design for its first product: a docking station made from white oak, Merino wool felt and a metal base (+ movie). More about Quell & Company designs iPhone dock to be "at home in the home"
Dutch office Serge Schoemaker Architects meticulously arranged different-sized sections of plywood that "fit together seamlessly like a jigsaw puzzle" across the interior of this angular garden studio. More about Garden studio by Serge Schoemaker has a dark, rough exterior and a light-filled interior
Dutch Design Week 2014: designers Unfold, Kirschner3D and Penny Webb have developed a set of instruments that measure physical objects and transfer the dimensions to a digital model in real time on screen (+ movie). More about Analogue wood and brass tools transformed into digital measuring devices