News: record numbers of overseas students have applied to study architecture and design courses in the UK, with applications up 14% on last year. More about Overseas applications to UK architecture and design courses "highest on record"
News: British bicycle brand Empire Cycles has collaborated with additive manufacturing company Renishaw to build the world's first 3D-printed metal bike frame. More about World's first 3D-printed bicycle frame launched
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a middleweight industrial designer for London designer Benjamin Hubert, whose screen of branching modular structures called Amass is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Visitors could suspend themselves within a 3D grid of ropes inside this inflatable installation created by Croatian-Austrian design collective Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More about Numen/For Use creates 3D grid of ropes inside inflatable String Prototype installation
News: London studio Grimshaw has won the redevelopment of the Curragh Racecourse in Ireland with proposals for a large canopied-grandstand for the thoroughbred horse racing venue. More about Grimshaw to redesign grandstand for Ireland's Curragh Racecourse
Stockholm 2014: design and architecture studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has extended its range of W131 lighting for Swedish brand Wästberg to include table and floor lamps. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune extends its W131aluminium lighting range for Wästberg
A landscape of stepped boxes covered in sisal displays products at this Barcelona boutique by local firm Arquitectura-G. More about AOO shop in Barcelona by Arquitectura-G has a stepped sisal display platform
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed an academic campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district comprising six concrete and glass buildings with subtle surface patterns designed to resemble ivy (+ slideshow). More about Wiel Arets completes college campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district
Trios of windows and a new lightwell help to bring daylight through the clean white interiors of this renovated townhouse in Porto by local studio Pablo Pita Architects (photos by José Campos + slideshow). More about Casa da Maternidade by Pablo Pita Architects is a renovated Porto townhouse
Stockholm 2014: the founders of Swedish design studio Form Us With Love have launched BAUX, a new brand taking construction materials such as insulation and turning them into architectural features (+ slideshow). More about Form Us With Love founders launch BAUX architectural products company
Frank Gehry's proposal for Berlin's tallest skyscraper and a concrete house photographed like a crime scene (pictured) feature in this week's Dezeen Mail, along with the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: New York studio The Living has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program competition with plans to cultivate bio-bricks from corn stalks and mushrooms, and use them to build a tower in the courtyard of the New York gallery (+ slideshow). More about Organic tower grown from agricultural waste wins MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2014
News: US office furniture giant Haworth has acquired a majority stake in iconic Italian design brands including Cappellini, Cassina and Alias as part of its $270 million deal with Italian furniture group Poltrona Frau. More about Haworth buys Poltrona Frau to create global furniture brand
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: augmented and virtual reality visualisation technologies will soon be combined in one device, says Andy Millns of 3D production company Inition in the final part of our interview. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Virtual and augmented reality technology will converge in digital "contact lens"
Famous film set designs are translated into detailed cross sections that resemble the insides of dolls' houses in this series of illustrations by architect and illustrator Federico Babina. More about Archiset illustrated film sets by Federico Babina
News: the David Adjaye-designed Wakefield Market Hall in Yorkshire, England, is facing demolition just six years after opening, following news the local council wants to sell the building to a developer and replace it with a cinema. More about David Adjaye's Yorkshire market hall faces demolition
Amidst the fast-paced construction of King's Cross in London, young Finnish studio AOR has installed an angular canal-side platform where visitors can make contact with some of the local wildlife (+ slideshow). More about AOR's floating Viewpoint offers glimpses of London's canal-side wildlife
Mexican firm Taller 6A has renovated a library inside an eighteenth-century building in Mexico City, adding a bookshop with hundreds of wooden boxes on its walls, its ceilings, and under its glass floor (+ slideshow). More about Mexican library renovation by Taller 6A features bookshop covered in boxes
Stockholm 2014: the delicate glass base of this vase by German designer Hanne Willmann contrasts with a concrete cover that supports the stems of flowers. More about Willmann Vase by Hanne Willmann has a glass base and a concrete lid
Architecture collective MAPA of Brazil and Uruguay has built a prefabricated modular home and transported it by lorry to a picturesque spot in the countryside outside Porto Alegre (photos by Leonardo Finotti + slideshow). More about Prefabricated modular home by MAPA delivered to the Brazilian countryside