News: tech giant Google has released the latest version of its Android operating system called Lollipop – the first to use the company's "flat" design guidelines unveiled earlier this year (+ slideshow). More about Google rolls out Material Design guidelines with Lollipop Android update
Maison&Objet 2014: designer Andrea Rekadlidis has created a set of white-glazed ceramic desk organisers based on the simplified outlines of five famous Italian monuments (+ slideshow). More about Andrea Rekalidis' ceramic desk-tidies take the form of Italian landmarks
Dezeen promotion: Italian furniture brand Pedrali will showcase its new and updated office collections at the Orgatec trade show in Cologne, Germany, later this month. More about Pedrali to launch office furniture collections at Orgatec 2014
Assorted plants create a blanket of red and green across the undulating roof of this housing block, completed by NL Architects for a newly developed Amsterdam neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about Terraces are cut out of the curved green roof of NL Architects' Funen Blok K
Dutch Design Week 2014: The most recognisable paintings from the art collection of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum are printed onto the seats of these plywood stools by Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek. More about Piet Hein Eek prints Rijksmuseum artworks onto flatpack stools
The collar of this sweater by San Francisco studio Sensoree changes colour depending on the wearer's excitement levels (+ slideshow). More about GER Mood Sweater by Sensoree indicates emotions with LEDs
Work is nearing completion on the Amphibious House by Baca Architects – a family home on an island in the middle of the River Thames that can float on rising floodwater like a ship in its dock. More about UK's "first amphibious house" can float on floodwater like a boat in a dock
News: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's new art gallery is nearing completion in downtown Los Angeles – a building that architect Elizabeth Diller says doesn't "try to compete" with Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall next door (+ slideshow). More about The Broad gallery by Diller Scofidio + Renfro speeds towards completion in Los Angeles
Opinion: with the petrol heads stuck firmly in rut, there's an opportunity for designers to do something different with the new wave of electric cars. Elon Musk's Tesla is among those leading the way, says Lucas Verweij. More about "The car is dead, long live the car"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architecture education is failing to understand how technology is changing our cities says Keiichi Matsuda, who foresees the profession “splitting into two parts” thanks to digital advances (+ movie). More about Architects could become "closer to game designers or filmmakers"
Nendo has used different tones of pink and purple to create the illusion of 3D display stands at an exhibition on Japanese design that the studio curated in Singapore (+ slideshow). More about Nendo creates pastel optical illusions for Japanese design exhibition display
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has revamped a room inside the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen originally designed by Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen, using furniture pieces from Danish brand Republic of Fritz Hansen (+ slideshow). More about Jaime Hayón refurbishes Room 506 in Arne Jacobsen's SAS Hotel
Warsaw studio MFRMGR has subdivided this office space in Poland to create individual workspaces for employees within wooden cabins designed to look like a "mini-town" (+ slideshow). More about MFRMGR creates house-like cubicles with windows inside a Polish office
News: graphic designer Neville Brody has reorganised his London studio and rebranded it as Brody Associates because "people didn't really understand" its former name, Research Studios (+ interview + slideshow). More about Neville Brody rebrands studio: "Clients weren't quite clear on what we were offering"
London architect Henry Goss has revealed how photo-realistic and 3D visualisations helped shape his design for this house in Hertfordshire, England, which is also the first output from the renderings studio he recently launched with fellow artist Peter Guthrie (+ slideshow). More about Carey House by Henry Goss: "Visualisation played a vital role in design decisions"
Perforated pink aluminium panels form a sinuous structure that envelops visitors to this installation by French architect Marc Fornes, his studio The Very Many and sound artist Jana Winderen (+ slideshow). More about Marc Fornes creates pink "envelope of experiential tension" for Situation Room installation
The exposed criss-crossing skeleton of this see-through house in Japan frames a labyrinth of wall-less rooms connected by over a dozen different staircases (+ slideshow). More about Yuusuke Karasawa's maze-like S House has an entirely transparent facade
News: Berlin design studio Blond and Bieber's project that uses algae to create colourful dyes for textile printing has won a competition for young designers organised by Lodz Design Festival (+ movie). More about Blond and Bieber's Algaemy coloured dyes win Lodz Design Festival prize
Comments update: after a short animation simulating the completion of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família basilica went viral on social media, readers revisited the story to question the logic of such a long-term project. More about "Why don't they give up building this thing?"