This performing arts centre in São Paulo by Brasil Arquitetura features huge concrete volumes lifted off the ground to create accessible public spaces and has been named on the shortlist for the Designs of the Year awards, announced this week (+ slideshow). More about Praça das Artes by Brasil Arquitetura features concrete boxes projecting over a public plaza
A Dublin-based graphic designer has developed a digital resource encouraging people to eat insects. More about Entomo website design promotes insects as food
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: new technologies mean the design process is becoming akin to "creating a Hollywood film," says designer Francis Bitonti, who created a seamless 3D-printed dress for burlesque dancer Dita von Teese. More about Advances in design software mean "materials are becoming media"
Opinion: Justin McGuirk argues that despite the furniture industry's decline in Italy, it's still the best place to buy a sofa until the digital manufacturing revolution delivers on its promises. More about "We are not in the midst of a revolution, we are between revolutions"
This concrete Second World War bunker in Hamburg has been converted into a renewable energy plant and visitor centre by urban development company IBA Hamburg (+ slideshow). More about Abandoned concrete bunker converted into a green power plant by IBA Hamburg
Stockholm 2014: young designers Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho have designed a series of clothing racks that resemble the regular shape of a wave (+ slideshow). More about Wave-shaped clothes rails keep items evenly spaced
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position as an industrial designer at Dutch brand G-Star Raw, whose interior design team fitted out a ferry on the Amstel river in Amsterdam (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Designer Konstantin Grcic has produced a collection of furniture that combines industrial sheet glass with pistons, hinges and cranks for his latest exhibition at Galerie Kreo in Paris (+ slideshow). More about Konstantin Grcic designs glass furniture with moving parts for Galerie Kreo show
News: universities "aren't interested in the type of education that is needed for creatives," says Neil Austin, head of the UK's leading furniture design course, which is being closed down. More about Creativity "isn't welcome" in UK universities, says head of axed design course
This house by Japanese architect Shogo Aratani clambers over a steep rocky site in Hyogo, so it was named Krampon after the spiky devices that strap onto shoes to improve grip for climbing (+ slideshow). More about Krampon house by Shogo Aratani climbs over a rocky site
Stockholm 2014: Swedish designer Stefan Borselius has created a series of minimal chairs for Swedish furniture brand Fogia. More about Stefan Borselius designs minimal chairs for Fogia
A corner appears to have been sliced away from this hilltop house in Portugal by architect Manuel Aires Mateus (photos by Fernando Guerra + slideshow). More about House in Fontinha by Manuel Aires Mateus has a cross-shaped plan and a missing corner
This six-sided wooden cabin by Estonian designer Jaanus Orgusaar has walls that zigzag up and down and two circular windows resembling fisheye camera lenses (+ slideshow). More about Six-sided modular cabin by Jaanus Orgusaar with wooden walls and fisheye windows
News: Austrian lighting brand Zumtobel has conducted the first ever laboratory study into how shoppers respond to different lighting scenarios and claims the results of its research will help retailers improve the way customers perceive their products. More about Analysing shoppers' brains waves will lead to "a new era of shop lighting"
An Alpine choir pivoted on hydraulic platforms as part of French fashion house Moncler's Autumn Winter 2014 presentation at New York Fashion Week, which concludes today (+ movie). More about Hydraulic mechanisms tilt singers at Moncler Autumn Winter 2014 presentation
A radical redesign of a door and a fantasy house on stilts (pictured) lead Dezeen Mail issue 189, which also features the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Stockholm 2014: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has produced a lamp based on a cheese fondue pot for Swedish firm David Design. More about Fondue lamp shaped like a cheese-melting pot by Luca Nichetto
News: architecture firm Farrells has won a competition to masterplan two major commercial sites in the growing Qianhai special economic zone in Shenzhen, China, with plans that include a 320-metre skyscraper. More about Farrells to masterplan two sites in Shenzhen's Qianhai financial district
London-based Marks Barfield Architects has designed a temporary glazed pavilion raised up on criss-crossing steel columns that looks set be built near the firm's London Eye observation wheel on the South Bank. More about London Eye-designer Marks Barfield Architects plans elevated glass pavilion next door
News: architects have been surprisingly slow to adopt augmented reality as a design tool, according to co-founder of visualisation studio Inition Andy Millns. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Architects slow to embrace augmented reality, says visualisation expert Andy Millns