Opinion: in the first of two columns about the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob asks what America's Prism surveillance program tells us about design thinking. More about "Prism is the dark side of design thinking"
News: Thomas Heatherwick has released images of a proposal for a garden to span the River Thames on a new pedestrian bridge (+ slideshow). More about Thomas Heatherwick reveals garden bridge designed for River Thames
Readers' reactions to Apple's iOS 7 software design revealed earlier this week lead Dezeen Mail issue 156, which also includes all the latest news, jobs and comments from Dezeen.
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News: Japanese studio SANAA has presented designs for a new campus for Israel's leading design school within Jerusalem's historic Russian Compound. More about SANAA plans new campus for Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Architect Matilde Peralta del Amo has converted an old market hall in western Spain into a theatre with a huge concrete mouth. More about Navalmoral de la Mata Theatre by Matilde Peralta del Amo
News: architect David Adjaye has unveiled his design for a facility to house master silk weavers in Varanasi, India. More about David Adjaye reveals design for a silk-weaving facility in India
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our fourth movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, MINI head of design Anders Warming introduces the workshops that took place in the space and journalist Justin McGuirk explains why he sees OMA's Tools for Life collection as a nostalgic reaction to the decline of industry in the city. More about OMA's furniture collection for Knoll "turns industry into a fetish"
This conceptual technology by architecture graduate Chris Kelly would allow individuals to project digital imagery over their perception of reality and then manipulate it like the layers of a Rubik's Cube (+ movie). More about Rubix by Chris Kelly
News: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has announced 52 winners of this year's RIBA Awards, including a faceted auditorium in Alicante, a shimmering seaside gallery and a museum that mimics volcanic formations. More about 2013 RIBA Awards winners announced
Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed an art and culture centre with a chequered timber facade on the banks of the Doubs river in Besançon, France (+ slideshow). More about Besançon Art Centre and Cité de la Musique by Kengo Kuma and Associates
News: London is set to offer a rival to New York's acclaimed High Line park with these competition-winning proposals for a landscaped promenade linking gardens and railways arches along the River Thames. More about Green promenade to provide London's answer to New York's High Line
Renzo Piano has become the latest high-profile architect to add a building to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, by completing a tiny wooden cabin with room for just a single inhabitant. More about Diogene by Renzo Piano at Vitra Campus
News: IKEA has announced that it is to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with. More about IKEA launches furniture for dolls' houses
German designer Philipp Weber's glassblowing pipe with valves like a trumpet won the New Talents Award at DMY Berlin last week (+ movie). More about Strange Symphony by Philipp Weber
These billboards by creative agency Ogilvy & Mather stretch outwards to double as street furniture (+ movie). More about Ads with a New Purpose by Ogilvy & Mather for IBM
The head of this lamp by London designer Klemens Schillinger can rotate freely without the interruption of wires. More about Lamp 11811 by Klemens Schillinger
Winners of this year's W Hotels Designers of the Future Award have revealed their projects at Design Miami/Basel (+ movie). More about W Hotels Designers of the Future Award 2013 projects at Design Miami/Basel
Tokyo practice Klein Dytham Architecture referenced traditional Japanese festivals, bathhouses, fishponds and timber houses for the interior of Google's new Japan office (+ slideshow). More about Google Japan by Klein Dytham Architecture
Dutch studio MVRDV has transformed the facade of an ageing mixed-use building into a stack of shop windows in Gangnam, the trendy district of Seoul described in the world-famous Korean pop song. More about Chungha in Gangnam by MVRDV
An angular installation by Zaha Hadid has been unveiled in front of the architect's Fire Station at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany (+ slideshow). More about Prima installation by Zaha Hadid for Swarovski at Vitra Campus