Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: popular software packages are influencing the way new buildings look says Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, who calls on architects to develop their own code rather than using "off-the-shelf" solutions (+ movie). More about You can "spot what software has been used" to design a building
Danish studios CEBRA and Glifberg+Lykke have created an igloo-shaped street sports centre and a skate park on the harbour front of Haderslev, Denmark (+ slideshow). More about CEBRA's sports centre "grows like a mushroom" from concrete skate park by Glifberg+Lykkeskate
Dutch Design Week 2014: The interlocking modules of this street furniture by Polish designer Izabela Bołoz form flexible seating for members of the public to sit, recline or climb on (+ slideshow). More about Izabela Bołoz's Intersections modules interlock to form street furniture
Beijing Design Week 2014: People's Architecture Office has developed a panelling system for building temporary living spaces within the ageing structures of the city's hutong districts (+ slideshow). More about Courtyard House Plugin by People's Architecture Office repurposes ancient Beijing residences
The domed and curving rooftops of this science museum in Komatsu, Japan, are covered in grass, creating a series of rolling hills that visitors can clamber across (+ slideshow). More about Concrete hills frame the galleries of Mari Ito's Komatsu science museum
News: Haworth Tompkins' new home for the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, featuring a curved auditorium built from 25,000 reclaimed bricks, is the 2014 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize for the biggest contribution to British architecture this year. More about Liverpool Everyman Theatre by Haworth Tompkins wins Stirling Prize 2014
News: Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA has teamed up with American landscape architecture studio Olin to create the winning design for the 11th Street Bridge Park – a raised garden spanning Washington DC's Anacostia River (+ slideshow). More about OMA and Olin win competition to design garden bridge for Washington DC
Dutch Design Week 2014: This rug shaped like a tightly coiled piece of rope by Studio Siem & Pabon heats up to kill dust mites lurking in its fibres (+ slideshow). More about Studio Siem & Pabon's Fervent Carpet kills dust mites to relieve asthma sufferers
Opinion: designers today are being swamped with visual information that has been stripped of its historical context. Making personal connections across generations can help fill the gaps, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "History has become a trove of artefacts ready for appropriation"
A family home that can float on rising floodwater, Tesla's latest "self-driving" car and a maze-like Japanese house (pictured), feature in Dezeen Mail issue 224. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: Henning Larsen Architects has won a bid to design a train station for the new city of Vinge, located in a rural area outside Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More about Henning Larsen Architects to design train station for new Danish town
News: MVRDV and fellow Rotterdam studio MorePlatz have been selected to create a pair of dockside office blocks in Mainz, Germany, with designs for buildings featuring zigzagging profiles. More about MVRDV's zigzagging buildings come top in Mainz basin contest
This complex of interlocking white buildings was designed by Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos to house the different activities of Spanish social charity Padre Rubinos (+ slideshow). More about Elsa Urquijo's campus for a Spanish charity is made up of "serene" white buildings
News: Brazilian studio OSPA has won a competition to design a sports education campus in Porto Alegre, with a proposal that includes a floating football pitch (+ slideshow). More about Football pitch hovers above basketball courts in winning UFCSPA campus design
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