Visitors to London department store Selfridges can take a virtual reality tour created by technology company Inition inside a helmet by fashion designer Gareth Pugh (+ slideshow). More about "Immersive virtual world" by Gareth Pugh and Inition installed at Selfridges
This baguette shop in Warsaw, Poland, by architects MFRMGR is modelled on market booths and stalls set up in the city during the 1990s (+ slideshow). More about Zapiekanka restaurant in Warsaw modelled on a market booth by MFRMGR
Russian product designer Ilya Tkach has created a simple desk lamp featuring a light source that snaps onto its stem with a magnet. More about Magnets connect Ilya Tkach's two-part desk lamp
The revamps of two major public spaces - Place de la République in Paris and Times Square in New York - completed this week. Our Dezeen Music Project track of the week plus more architecture and design news follow. More about This week on Dezeen
News: a skyscraper shaped like a giant doughnut has been completed by Italian architect Joseph di Pasquale in Guangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More about Doughnut-shaped skyscraper completed in Guangzhou
Over 170,000 visitors to this year's Sochi Winter Olympics will be able to have their faces scanned and recreated on the facade of a building as part of an installation by London designer Asif Khan. More about Asif Khan designs a "Mount Rushmore of the digital age" for the Sochi Winter Olympics
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a project leader with Danish firm C. F. Møller Architects, whose domed tropical greenhouse that can be pumped up to alter lighting and temperature inside is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garçons has opened a branch of its London store Dover Street Market in New York City (+ slideshow). More about Dover Street Market fashion store opens in New York
A series of steel-braced oak staircases and bridges connect the different levels of this extension to the Manchester School of Art by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (+ slideshow). More about Art school extension with wooden stairs and bridges by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
The first products from new Danish design brand Herman Cph include a series of side tables with oak tops and slender steel legs (+ slideshow). More about Debut collection by Herman Cph includes oak tables with spindly steel legs
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