Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our penultimate movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, New York designer Stephen Burks discusses the importance of having a design identity and journalist Henrietta Thompson explains why designers are starting to expand into retail. More about "It's easy for designers today to produce and sell their own work"
French designer Claire Lavabre has made a mirror that only works when it's placed in front of a dark shape painted on the wall. More about Reflet by Claire Lavabre
Fashion designer Ying Gao has fabricated a pair of dresses that writhe around and light up when someone stares at them (+ movie). More about (No)where (Now)here: Two Gaze-activated Dresses by Ying Gao
News: Danish architect Henning Larsen has died in Copenhagen at the age of 87. More about Henning Larsen 1925-2013
Huge clerestory windows reveal the exposed timber frame of this school sports hall in Kobe, Japan, by architecture firm Takenaka Corporation (+ slideshow). More about Harmonie Hall by Takenaka Corporation
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has unmasked the I-beams structure of the oldest steel-framed building in Shanghai to create an Italian restaurant with a raw industrial interior (+ slideshow). More about Mercato at Three on the Bund by Neri&Hu
London architect Dingle Price has revamped a warehouse in south London to create a bright spacious home and studio for a painter and his family. More about House for a Painter by Dingle Price Architects
This range of anti-drone clothing was created by New York designer Adam Harvey to hide the wearer from heat detection technologies. More about Stealth Wear by Adam Harvey
Product news: London studio Industrial Facility has designed an office furniture system for American manufacturer Herman Miller that promotes interaction in the workplace (+ slideshow). More about Locale Office Furniture by Industrial Facility for Herman Miller
Metal trellises offer a framework for climbing plants and vines around these recently completed houses in Poitiers, France, by Bordeaux studio Lanoire & Courrian (+ slideshow). More about 32 houses in Poitiers by Lanoire & Courrian
Dezeen archive: following our story on a wooden skyscraper proposed for Stockholm this week, here's a series of timber architecture from Dezeen's archive. See all wooden buildings »
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Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has furnished an apartment in Le Corbusier's iconic Cité Radieuse housing block with his own products and blown-up pages from a punk fanzine (+ slideshow). More about Konstantin Grcic at Appartement N°50
News: New York design studio Atopia has moved to defuse the row over the authorship of the 2012 Olympic cauldron, saying: "we have never accused Thomas Heatherwick of plagiarism". More about "We never claimed to be designers of the cauldron" says Atopia
News: an exhibition of drawings, photographs, models and videos documenting work by Italian architect Renzo Piano opens on Thursday at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. More about Renzo Piano exhibition to open at New York's Gagosian Gallery
Designers Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid have adapted the flocking process to make a hairbrush that's coated in human hair. More about Hairbrush by Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid
This week Thomas Heatherwick was accused of copying the design for the Olympic Cauldron just days after being awarded a CBE for services to the design industry. Read on for more architecture and design news from the last seven days plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: DMY Berlin founder Joerg Suermann gives us a guided tour of this year's design festival in our second report from Berlin. More about "At DMY Berlin we want to support young designers"
Dezeen archive: following claims that Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron design isn't original, we've compiled our top stories about copying in design. More about Dezeen archive: copying in design
Spiralling stone walls will be carved with images of extinct species - with space reserved for future extinctions - at this observatory and education centre designed by Adjaye Associates for the Isle of Portland, England. More about Mass Extinction Memorial Observatory by Adjaye Associates
Opinion: in the second of two columns exploring the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob looks at how Google Maps is reshaping cities while Apple, Facebook and Amazon are reshaping the natural landscape by building their own headquarters as self-contained ecosystems. More about "Cities are being redrawn according to Google's world view"