Designer Ernesto D Morales has proposed a spoon made out of magnifying glass as part of a series of absurd products for his fictional company Object Solutions (+ movie). More about Magnifying spoon designed to detect contaminants in food
Hundreds of tiny holes puncture the white concrete panels that clad these two extensions to the Badajoz Fine Arts Museum by Spanish firm Estudio Arquitectura Hago (+ slideshow). More about Badajoz Fine Arts Museum extensions feature speckled walls and bevelled edges
This week we reported on Jonathan Ive's wide-ranging talk at London's Design Museum, the release of Marc Newson's shotgun and a Real Apple Store created to showcase British apple varieties (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our music track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
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News: a team led by Danish architecture firm COBE has seen off competition from three firms to land the commission for a new railway interchange in Køge, a town 28 miles south of Copenhagen. More about COBE team trumps Kengo Kuma in Danish railway station contest
Opinion: an unloved relic of 1950s socialist Yugoslavia is one of the finest buildings of its era. But in modern Serbia, its overtly political message doesn't chime well with the prevailing ideology, says Owen Hatherley. More about "It's no surprise that the government were reluctant to let members of the public in"
Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien claim that the brand was one of the few furniture companies in Italy that would "dare" to invest in their work. More about Doshi Levien's furniture for Moroso "challenges people's perceptions"
News: OMA's New York office has unveiled plans to build three residential towers beside the bay in Miami's Coconut Grove neighbourhood. Practice partner Shohei Shigematsu explains the design to Dezeen in an exclusive interview (+ slideshow). More about OMA reveals trio of "peanut-shaped" towers for Miami's Coconut Grove
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a design director at international interior design company YOO, whose projects include Barkli Virgin House, Moscow (pictured) by Kelly Hoppen. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Italian firearms brand Beretta has revealed Marc Newson's reinterpretation of the traditional side-by-side shotgun (+ slideshow). More about Marc Newson's "streamlined" 486 shotgun unveiled by Beretta
One of the UK's oldest food markets created The Real Apple Store to showcase 1,000 British apple varieties as part of its anniversary celebrations (+ slideshow). More about Real Apple Store created for Borough Market's 1000th birthday
Nendo has designed retail concessions for its wide range of products created exclusively for department stores in Japan (+ slideshow). More about Nendo showcases prolific product range in Japanese department stores
News: Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled its plans for a "radical reinterpretation" of the Smithsonian Institution campus in Washington DC, creating new entrances and underground extensions (+ slideshow). More about BIG presents More billion plans for Smithsonian campus overhaul
German architecture office Wurm + Wurm has transformed a derelict industrial building into offices, featuring a concrete facade punctuated by rows of hexagonal openings (+ slideshow). More about Hexagonal windows pattern the facade of German office building by Wurm + Wurm
London designer Lee Broom used his latest marble homeware and lighting pieces to furnish this subterranean Soho restaurant, which pays tribute to the area's insalubrious history (+ slideshow). More about Lee Broom pairs oak and marble for prostitution-themed London restaurant
Timber surfaces are combined with angled mirrors to help this visitor centre by Smith Vigeant Architects to fit in with its setting in Canada's Mont-Tremblant National Park (+ slideshow). More about Visitor centre "harmoniously inserted" into a Canadian forest by Smith Vigeant Architects
Warsaw collective Pangenerator has designed a digital necklace formed using light patterns that are projected onto the wearer's body via their phone (+ movie). More about Pangenerator creates jewellery with projected light
A team of Austrian students installed a model city in the centre of Vienna to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion (£15 billion) that the government is paying to bail out a local bank (+ slideshow). More about Austrians protest government spending with concrete model city
Jonathan Ive's swipe at design education, a house extension featuring a large window wrapped around one corner (pictured), and a glow-in-the-dark cycle path feature in Dezeen Mail issue 228. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: construction is now underway on a memorial to extinct species of the present and future, designed by David Adjaye for the Isle of Portland, England. More about Construction starts on David Adjaye's spiralling stone extinction memorial