Chicago firm Studio Gang Architects has completed a boathouse on the northern bank of the Chicago River with a rhythmic roofline intended to capture the alternating motions of a rower's arm movements (+ slideshow). More about Studio Gang's Chicago boathouse designed to echo the rhythms of rowing
News: American manufacturer 3D Systems has unveiled the world's first 3D printers for food, printing out sweets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More about First food 3D printer launched by 3D Systems
Opinion: now we buy everything from Amazon, where does that leave the counterculture? A new attempt to revive the spirit of the Whole Earth Catalog is "about as counter-cultural as a Happy Meal," argues Justin McGuirk. More about "To stick it to The Man, first you have to let him trouser your money"
The buildings of 26 prolific architects are transformed into letters of the alphabet in this series of detailed illustrations by graphic designer Federico Babina. More about Federico Babina creates Archibet, an illustrated alphabet of architects
East London design brand Hulger has launched a second design for its award-winning Plumen low-energy lightbulbs. More about Hulger launches second design for Plumen designer low-energy light bulb
The first Dezeen Mail of 2014 features Norman Foster's "cycling utopia" and furniture that looks like line drawings (pictured), plus all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: the Williams and Tsien-designed former American Folk Art Museum in New York will be demolished just 13 years after it was built to make room for an extension to the neighbouring Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), despite an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics. More about Demolition "only option" for New York's folk art museum says MoMA director
Webs of red parachute cables take the place of traditional balustrades between the two levels of this office that architects Joe Fraher and Lizzie Webster have built as an extension of their London home (+ slideshow). More about Parachute cables form netted balustrades at Fraher Architects' London studio
Maritime gas lamps were used as a reference for these pendant lights created by Danish studio Space Copenhagen for design brand &tradition. More about Space Copenhagen creates nautical lamps for &tradition
A hotel in Munich is stretched, twisted, distorted and exploded in this series of 88 manipulated photographs by Spanish photographer Victor Enrich (+ movie). More about Photographer Victor Enrich turns a Munich hotel upside down and inside out
Floatation devices, signalling flags and weapons are all incorporated into this apocalypse survival coat by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Marie-Elsa Batteux Flahault. More about Jacket to help prepare for the end of the world
French architect Paul Coudamy has converted this former butcher's shop in suburban Paris into a private residence and included mysterious figures in the photographs (+ slideshow). More about Butcher shop transformed into a home by Paul Coudamy
Walls of dark brick connect the exterior and interior of this mews house in the north London borough of Hackney (+ slideshow). More about Blackbox mews house by Form_art Architects has brick walls inside and out
News: architecture firm Snøhetta has concluded the first phase of a major overhaul of New York's Times Square, continuing the initiative started in 2009 to pedestrianise large sections of the popular tourist destination. More about Snøhetta completes phase one of Times Square transformation
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this exclusive interview with vertical gardens pioneer Patrick Blanc, the French botanist discusses his hanging gardens for Herzog & de Meuron's new Pérez Art Museum in Miami and reflects on why vertical gardens have become so popular. More about Green wall pioneer Patrick Blanc: "Now everybody is doing vertical gardens"
The stem of this task lamp designed by Bao-Nghi Droste forms an exaggerated loop behind the conical shade (+ slideshow). More about Round Lamp with a looping stem by Bao-Nghi Droste
Architecture studio MAPA borrowed elements and colours typically used on colonial-style Chilean houses to create this bright red residence in a winemaking region near Santiago. More about WA House by MAPA references colonial-style Chilean residences
Italian architect Andrea Dragoni has extended a cemetery in an ancient Italian town by adding rows of monumental travertine walls with public plazas and artworks slotted in between (+ slideshow). More about Cemetery complex by Andrea Dragoni contains public plazas and site-specific artworks
News: online home rental brand Airbnb is to replace a set of aluminium chairs at its new San Francisco headquarters after Emeco, the company that makes the original Navy Chair, pointed out that they were fakes. More about Airbnb removes "knockoff" Navy Chairs from new headquarters
News: online design retailer Fab has changed its strategy yet again, ending its relationship with external designers and brands across Europe and instead focusing on selling its own custom-designed furniture. More about Fab "taking a break" from selling designers' work in Europe