Swedish German design firm Kram/Weisshaar has teamed up with car brand Audi to design and develop a "micro-sharing initiative" to encourage drivers in Stockholm to share their cars (+ slideshow). More about Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram design car-sharing programme for Audi
This cavernous copper-clad library was designed by JKMM Architects for Alvar Aalto's historic Seinäjoki civic centre, and was one of three runners up from the first Finlandia Prize for Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Subterranean tunnel links Seinäjoki library by JKMM Architects with Aalto's 1965 building
A pair of French product designers have created an inflatable bandage that snaps around the wrist like a slap bracelet so it can be self-administered with only one hand. More about Uflex bandage snaps around a wound and inflates to stop bleeding
A curvy structure forms the heart of this small Tokyo home and workspace by Japanese studio Flat House, separating a cafe, gallery and art studio from the residents' domestic activities (+ slideshow). More about Live-in gallery and studio by Flat House hides utility rooms in a central cylinder
A cast-concrete box overhangs the sloping lower floor facade of this house by Japanese studio Matsuyama Architects (+ slideshow). More about Matsuyama Architects builds concrete house on inclining site in Japanese housing estate
Competition: Dezeen has partnered with British interior designer Ilse Crawford to give away five copies of her new book, A Frame for Life: The Designs of Studioilse. More about Competition: five copies of Ilse Crawford's monograph to be won
News: Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi have pledged support to a campaign to prevent the "barbaric" part-demolition of a school by Austrian Modernist architect Helmut Richter. More about Hadid, Holl and Gehry join fight to save "masterpiece" school by Helmut Richter
Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, Dutch designer Tord Boontje explains how the fashion industry has influenced his furniture collections for the Italian brand. More about Tord Boontje and Moroso brought "the excitement of fashion into furniture"
This Vietnam kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects features a knot-shaped roof with a vegetable garden on top and three protected courtyard playgrounds (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia's Farming Kindergarten has a vegetable garden on its looping roof
Japanese studio Nendo has released the second watch in its series of designs that takes graphical cues from architectural drawing tools. More about Nendo's second Draftsman watch is based on circular stencils
Italian car and coach-building firm Pininfarina has combined materials used inside 1930s vehicles with current technologies to produce a limited-edition bicycle (+ slideshow). More about Pininfarina fuses 1930s style with modern technology to produce bespoke bicycle
One end of this stone-clad concert hall in Germany by Peter Haimerl Architektur appears to have subsided into the ground, causing the other to lift up in to the air (+ slideshow). More about Peter Haimerl's Bavarian concert hall has a rough stone exterior and a raw concrete interior
A series of bulbous wicker forms by French designer Matali Crasset aim to promote traditional Zimbabwean weaving techniques. More about Matali Crasset presents woven vessels in collaboration with Zimbabwean weavers
Movie stars including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando make themselves at home in Modernist masterpieces by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and more, in this illustration series. More about Federico Babina imagines film stars living inside famous architect-designed houses
Comments update: architectural debate commanded the conversation on Dezeen this week, with one reader accusing the Modernist movement of "raping South America", while others were more concerned with defending MAD's design for the George Lucas museum from lazy criticism. More about "'Looks like' is the lowest kind of criticism"
Competition: we've teamed up with London designer Phil Cuttance to give away five of his Faceture bud vase/candle holders to Dezeen readers. More about Competition: five hand-cast candle holders by Phil Cuttance to be won
Israeli firm Jacobs-Yaniv has created a pilates studio for Paralympic gold-medallist Keren Leibovitch in Kfar Saba, Israel, using a steel frame to create distinct spaces inside a former events hall (+ slideshow). More about Jacobs-Yaniv Architects creates pilates studio for Paralympic swimmer
News: Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has hit out at the redesign of Zaha Hadid's Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium, branding it "a monumental mistake" that has left him "in despair". More about Zaha Hadid's Tokyo stadium will be "a disgrace to future generations" says Arata Isozaki
News: Terence Conran, Grayson Perry and Kevin McCloud have backed a manifesto from the UK's Crafts Council calling on the government to protect craft skills, as protestors try to save a degree course at one of Britain's leading arts universities. More about Crafts Council launches education manifesto as protestors battle to save crafts degree
A white timber roof masks the upper storey of this Japanese house by Takeru Shoji Architects, but is raised on wooden stilts to reveal the pale timber facade of the lower level (+ slideshow). More about Takeru Shoji Architects tops a timber-clad Japanese house with a "big hat"