Dutch designer Piet Boon has renovated a former office building in New York to create luxury apartments that borrow aesthetics from interiors in his home country (+ slideshow). More about Piet Boon brings "Dutch design" to Huys apartments in New York
News: Will Hobhouse of high-street furniture retailer Heal's has berated design schools for failing to teach business principles, claiming there's "no better background than an education through eBay" for designers who want to learn how to make a living. More about "Education through eBay" is the best business training for designers, says Heal's chairman
Brutalism: Denys Lasdun's National Theatre – one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist buildings – is a layered concrete landscape that Prince Charles once described as being like "a nuclear power station". More about Brutalist buildings: National Theatre, London by Denys Lasdun
Following the unveiling of a floating cycle path proposed for the River Thames, we've collected together 13 controversial projects from the pages of Dezeen that could transform London. More about 13 projects that could change the face of London
Atelier Data has extended a 1980s home in the Algarve, Portugal, with whitewashed concrete structures and fenced-in courtyards (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Data adds concrete volumes and internal courtyards to Algarve house
Maison & Objet 2014: Dutch firm Studio Macura has launched a collection of furniture and home accessories, including a marble tablet stand and oversized cork bottle stoppers. More about Studio Macura designs minimal accessories collection
Moveable timber fins cover the top five storeys of this university technology centre by French architects Badia Berger to modulate light and shade inside. More about Mantois Technology Centre by Badia Berger Architectes features moveable timber shutters
Slovenian studio Architektura d.o.o. has converted this Slovenian loft space into an open-plan two-bedroom holiday apartment – the second project we've featured by the architects today (+ slideshow). More about Arhitektura d.o.o. renovates cross-shaped attic in Slovenia into holiday home
Vienna Design Week 2014: Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has collaborated with silverware manufacturers Jarosinski & Vaugoin to produce the company's 192nd cutlery range. More about Thomas Feichtner launches cutlery for Jarosinski & Vaugoin at Vienna Design Week
Slovenian studio Arhitektura d.o.o. has designed a footbridge in Ljubljana to be as minimal and transparent as possible, in order to maintain focus on the surrounding architecture (+ slideshow). More about Arhitektura d.o.o. designs minimalist Ribja Brv Footbridge in the centre of Ljubljana
London Design Festival 2014: experimental footwear, furniture and jewellery pieces by a selection of emerging designers feature in the Future Stars? exhibition at London's The Aram Gallery (+ slideshow). More about The Aram Gallery showcases seven new designers in Future Stars? exhibition
We've been reporting from Singapore this week for the World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival 2014. Our latest Pinterest board is filled with winning projects from both events, including the World Building of the Year and World Interior of the Year.
More about New Pinterest board: World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival 2014
Canadian studio Drew Mandel Architects designed this new Toronto house to sit sensitively among its 1920s neighbours, mimicking their shape, size and two-toned facades (+ slideshow). More about Drew Mandel Architects designs Moore Park Residence "to echo the rhythm of its neighbours"
A team of designers are presenting a concept for a modular engine that could fit into any vehicle at the Bio 50 biennial of design in Ljubljana (+ slideshow). More about One engine fits all in Re-do Studio's Bio 50 project
Music: director Bradley Munkowitz used the infrared emitter from a Microsoft Kinect to cast the constellation-like patterns of light in this music video for American musician Tycho's latest single See. More about Tycho bathes his band in infrared light for latest music video
Two oversized sash-style windows have been added to the back of this two-storey extension by Sydney architects Panovscott, allowing both levels to open up completely to the garden (+ slideshow). More about Giant sash windows cover the back of Panovscott's Sydney house extension
World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Moshe Safdie has called for a "reorientation" of the way cities are designed, saying that the vogue for skyscrapers and the privatisation of public space is creating cities that are "not worthy of our civilisation". More about Skyscrapers are creating "disjointed and disconnected" cities says Moshe Safdie
A pair of combined wall mirrors and dressing tables by Berlin designer Florian Schmid have gone into production with German furniture brand Zeitraum (+ slideshow). More about Florian Schmid's two-legged tables intersect with mirrors
The curving balconies of this housing scheme by French studio ECDM Architectes create a rippling outline and provide each flat with outdoor space (+ slideshow). More about ECDM Architectes extends Parisian apartments with wavy balconies
This week we published Marc Newson's beer machine for Heineken, a scissor-like bridge in London (pictured), and reported the winning projects from both the World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival 2014. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen