White and black painted patches create artificial shafts of light and shadows on the walls of this salon in Japan by Tokyo studio Takara Space Design. More about GreeM hair salon with artifical light and shadow by Takara Space Design
This golden public toilet in Wembley, London aims to evoke the days when lavatories were "civic buildings that aimed to inspire confidence and pride in a place". More about Golden public toilet by Gort Scott aims to "inspire confidence"
A sheltered deck separates the bedroom from the living spaces of this tiny home in a suburb of Brisbane (+ slideshow). More about Keperra House built around a sheltered deck by A-CH
An angular wooden staircase ascends the lobby of this office renovation in the Dutch town of Hoofddorp by Amsterdam architects Studioninedots (+ slideshow). More about De Burgemeester office with an angular wooden staircase by Studioninedots
Movie: Wong Mun Summ of WOHA explains how the Singapore studio tried to recreate geological forms in the architecture of PARKROYAL on Pickering, which won the Hotels category at last month's Inside Festival. More about Singapore hotel covered with plants was "inspired by rock formations"
A giant chess set and a hot-dog-shaped rocking horse are on show at a retrospective of work by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (+ slideshow + interview). More about Jaime Hayón says his Groninger Museum exhibition is full of "all kinds of crazy products"
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a meeting room in a London hotel where guests can relax beneath a canopy with an image of trees projected onto its surface (+ slideshow). More about Business Playground meeting room by Mathieu Lehanneur
Synthetic biology projects made it a weird week on Dezeen, as we featured new creatures that could save existing species and floors embedded with bacteria that could clean feet. Click through for more top content from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. More about This week on Dezeen
In this exclusive interview, British fashion designer Paul Smith shows Dezeen his new exhibition at London's Design Museum, which contains a room "nicknamed the paracetamol room, because by the time you come out you'll probably need an aspirin". Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12 (+ movie). More about "You'll probably need an aspirin" after my Design Museum show, says Paul Smith
News: architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled the design for a new staircase linking the existing San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with the 21,000 square-metre extension currently under construction. More about Snøhetta unveils new staircase for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
News: Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won a competition to design a theatre and cultural centre in Hjørring, Denmark, with plans for a series of buildings clad in Corten steel (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen wins competition for Danish theatre complex
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a call for artists at Foster + Partners, whose design for the new Apple Campus 2 is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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The new San Francisco headquarters for photo-sharing website Pinterest is housed in a converted warehouse filled with two-storey white volumes. More about Pinterest's San Francisco headquarters by All of the Above and First Office
This huge slideshow of images by British photographers Hufton + Crow shows the minimal interior of John Pawson's St Moritz Church in Augsburg, Germany, during a rehearsal for a choir recital. More about John Pawson's minimal St Moritz Church photographed during a choir rehearsal
Opinion: after five cyclists die on London roads in nine days, Dan Hill asks whether driverless cars would make our roads safer, or whether dependance on "an algorithmic organisation of society" would only encourage complacency. More about "Self-driving cars are the answer. But what is the question?"
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Wiley to give away five copies of a book about the construction of the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi. More about Competition: five Al Bahr Towers books to be won
Clothes are displayed on precariously balanced tables at this Tokyo boutique designed by Tokujin Yoshioka for fashion label Issey Miyake (+ slideshow). More about Reality Lab. Issey Miyake boutique by Tokujin Yoshioka
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan - a cultural centre with walls that rise seamlessly from the surface of the surrounding plaza (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center rises from the landscape in Baku
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Eindhoven, design graduates Aagje Hoekstra and Evelien Crooy show us the bioplastic and ink made from insects that they presented at this year's Dutch Design Week. More about Young designers transform beetles into plastic and printing ink
This synthetic biology project by design graduate Agatha Haines proposes using animal cells to print new types of organs, which could be implanted into humans to prevent heart attacks or strokes (+ movie) More about Animal cells could be used to make "Frankenstein-esque hybrid organs"