Dezeen Mail issue 209 includes a vaginal activity tracker designed to help strengthen pelvic floor muscles, reactions to Zaha Hadid winning the Design of the Year prize, and Lego Minifigures hacked to create holders for iPhone cables. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Children attending this nursery in Spain by Pamplona studio Taller Básico de Arquitectura enter through an angular concrete corridor carved out of the building's faceted shell (+ slideshow). More about Faceted concrete corridor welcomes children to Taller Básico de Arquitectura's nursery
Activity trackers are becoming more personal – instead of fitting around the wrist, this grenade-shaped product inserts into the vagina to help strengthen pelvic floor muscles and vibrates to give workout feedback. More about Vibrating kGoal activity tracker monitors vaginal exercises
News: Frank Gehry has unveiled yet another reworked design for the proposed skyscraper complex in his home city of Toronto, reducing the number of towers from three to two. More about Gehry scales back Canadian skyscraper scheme to be "more Toronto"
Swedish architecture firm Wingårdhs has completed a university auditorium in a Stockholm suburb with a patterned glass facade that twists and leans over the adjacent street (+ slideshow). More about Glass triangles animate facade of Wingårdh's auditorium for Karolinska Institutet
Fernando Amat, the designer of the first-ever Camper store, has designed a new boutique for the footwear brand in Palma de Mallorca, featuring boxy display units with mirrored edges (+ slideshow). More about Fernando Amat designs Camper store in Palma de Mallorca
This pale brick building for Dutch financial services company Rabobank has been purposefully designed by architecture studio Mecanoo to "not look like a bank" (+ slideshow). More about Mecanoo integrates public workspaces within banking centre for Rabobank
Movie: a host of international designers including Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, Barber & Osgerby and the Campana Brothers discuss their involvement in Clerkenwell Design Week 2014 in this movie we made for the festival. More about Clerkenwell Design Week is helping London "live up to its design reputation"
Melbourne architect Clare Cousins and her team have created themselves a shared office space, where interior fittings are picked out in black or white to distinguish between the different areas of its two occupants (+ slideshow). More about Clare Cousins' Melbourne office is divided up with colour-coordinated details
Drinks brand Coca-Cola and musician Will.i.am have developed a 3D printer that produces objects using filament made from recycled plastic bottles. More about Coca-Cola and Will.i.am's 3D printer uses recycled bottles as filament
Dezeen Watch Store: designer Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility has spoken to the Dezeen Watch Store blog about Bottle, a new watch based on the "graphic folly" of a beer bottle base. More about Bottle watch is based on "graphic folly that intrigued me" says Sam Hecht
This conceptual project by Royal College of Art graduate Johanna Schmeer builds on developments in nanotechnology to create synthetic foods for feeding the world's burgeoning population (+ movie). More about Johanna Schmeer imagines the future of food with Bioplastic Fantastic
The overlapping volumes that comprise this family house outside Barcelona were designed by Spanish studio Mirag with clean white exteriors and bare concrete interiors (+ slideshow). More about Mirag's House in Llavaneres comprises four overlapping white blocks
British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has unveiled her line of uniforms for airline Virgin Atlantic. More about Vivienne Westwood launches Virgin Atlantic uniforms
News: the Design Museum in London has defended its decision to give its Designs of the Year top prize to a Zaha Hadid building in Azerbaijan, following widespread criticisms of the award on human rights grounds. More about Designs of the Year prize "about architecture rather than politics" says Design Museum director
Fresh loaves and sugary treats are presented alongside wooden surfaces, ceramic tiles and plants at this renovated bakery in Kiryu, Japan, by architecture studio SNARK (+ slideshow). More about Style Bakery by SNARK features tiled walls and oak shelving
An architecture graduate from the University of Westminster has designed a temporary plywood "temple" for the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. More about Josh Haywood creates temporary "temple" out of plywood for Burning Man Festival
A collective of emerging Italian designers has worked with artisans to create a range of terracotta objects (+ slideshow). More about FID celebrates native Italian material with Terracotta Everyday collection
A stripy facade modelled on a skyline bounds the circular campus of this Melbourne primary school, designed by Australian firm McBride Charles Ryan to reference walled cities around the world (+ slideshow). More about Stripy Melbourne school by McBride Charles Ryan mirrors the local skyline
Architect Zaha Hadid has described her Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan as an "incredible achievement" while project architect Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu said the project expressed the "soft, romantic side" of Azeri culture (+ interview + movie). More about Heydar Aliyev Center was "an incredibly ambitious project" says Zaha Hadid