News: only one city has submitted a bid for World Design Capital 2016 - meaning Taipei is likely to be awarded the title. More about Taipei city submits the only bid for World Design Capital 2016
Product news: Swiss furniture brand Vitra has put its latest range of updates and reissues from the archive of French designer Jean Prouvé into production (+ slideshow). More about Prouvé Collection Update by Vitra
UK studio Designscape Architect has completed two buildings for artist Damien Hirst. One is an art production studio that appears to change colour from blue to green and the other is a glazed brick building designed for using toxic chemicals (+ slideshow). More about Science Studio and Formaldehyde Building for Damien Hirst by Designscape Architects
Opinion: Slovakian designer Tomáš Libertíny, who wrote to Dezeen last month accusing a major advertising agency of exploiting his work, reflects on the nature of copying in design and argues that imitating the work of others should be an integral part of any designer's education. More about "Don't be afraid to learn by copying others"
A rural beach house in Chile (pictured) and Shigeru Ban's cardboard cathedral feature in Dezeen Mail issue 164, plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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The shelves in this furniture by design graduate Emiel Remmelts only stay up thanks to concrete blocks, bricks, a glass vase and magazine file boxes propping up one end. More about Stacked Objects by Emiel Remmelts
News: a team comprising Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Australian firm Hassell has won the high-profile competition to redesign Melbourne's iconic railway station at Flinders Street. More about Herzog & de Meuron and Hassell triumph in Melbourne station competition
From the outside this house in Nagoya by Japanese architect Tetsuo Kondo looks like a pile of overlapping boxes, but inside it opens up to form one big bright space (+ slideshow). More about House in Chayagasaka by Tetsuo Kondo Architects
Surfaces appear to be stitched together with thick black thread in this fantasy bar and restaurant interior by Polish designer Karina Wiciak. More about Szwalnia by Karina Wiciak
News: computer and electronics retailer Microsoft has become the first US retailer to sell MakerBot's desktop 3D printers on the shop floor for customers to take home on the same day. More about Microsoft to sell MakerBot 3D printers in American stores
This house in Pittsburgh by American architect Eric Fisher cantilevers by 16 metres to hover over the roof of a glass factory (+ slideshow). More about Emerald Art Glass House by Fisher Architecture
This kindergarten in Gandia, eastern Spain, has a cloud-shaped courtyard that encloses six mulberry trees (+ slideshow). More about Kid University by Paredes Pedrosa
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled new images and a movie showing the studio's proposals to convert an old textile factory in Belgrade, Serbia, into a free-flowing complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities. More about Movie: Beko Masterplan by Zaha Hadid Architects
News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller (+ slideshow). More about Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion world map redesigned
Offset gabled volumes form a new classroom and play area at this infant school in Oxfordshire, England, by local firm Jessop and Cook Architects (+ slideshow). More about St Mary's Infant School by Jessop and Cook Architects
Richard Rogers reflects on his 50-year career and says that architects today must be careful to protect the public domain in the final movie in our series of exclusive interviews with the eminent British architect. More about "Today is much more an age of greed" says Richard Rogers
Playground swings can be hung both inside and outside this Japanese house with a corner sliced off by Level Architects, the firm that previously completed a residence with a slide connecting its floors (+ slideshow). More about House in Ofuna by Level Architects
Product news: these angular lounge chairs and ottomans by Brisbane designer Alexander Lotersztain can be tessellated in an endless array of shapes and patterns. More about Prisma by Alexander Lotersztain for Derlot Editions
In this movie we filmed at Domaine de Boisbuchet in southwestern France last month, design curator and collector Alexander von Vegesack gives us a tour round the estate, which features pavilions including Shigeru Ban's first permanent building in Europe, pioneering bamboo structures by Simón Vélez and experimental domes by German structural engineer Jörg Schlaich. More about "Shigeru Ban's first building in Europe is here"
Dezeen promotion: new British shelving design and manufacturing company ON&ON will launch at Design Junction during the London Design Festival in September. More about ON&ON shelving systems to launch at Design Junction