News: Facebook asked Frank Gehry to "tone down" his original plans for its new Silicon Valley campus, according to a partner at the architect's firm. More about Facebook asks Gehry to design "more anonymous" headquarters
Here are some photos of the refurbished womenswear floor of La Rinascente department store in Milan by Japanese designers Nendo. More about La Rinascente womenswear department by Nendo
Milan 2013: Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola will present a collection of armchairs with wavy backs and seats made from rigid felt for Italian brand Moroso in Milan next week. More about Mafalda by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso
Japanese studio General Design constructed this two-storey house in Tokyo as the prototype for a series of urban housing templates that can be replicated in any Japanese city (+ slideshow). More about Prototyping UH by General Design
Milan 2013: Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa will launch a wooden stool with a stainless steel footrest for Italian manufacturer Plank in Milan next week. More about Blocco stool by Naoto Fukasawa for Plank
Chilean architect Pedro Gubbins designed this concrete residence as a rural retreat for himself and his family and has balanced it on top of a dry-stone wall (+ slideshow). More about Omnibus House by Gubbins Arquitectos
Milan 2013: more from Dutch design studio Tjep. at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next week: this time a collection of wooden furniture including a chair with legs like ice skates (+ slideshow). More about Hendrick's Collection by Tjep
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our interview at Design Indaba in Cape Town, Masashi Kawamura, partner at creative agency PARTY, explains the process behind a television commercial he made featuring dancing sperm. More about "I think we were the first in history to motion-capture our own sperm"
Milan 2013: Dutch design studio Tjep. will launch a dining booth inspired by old train compartments at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next week. More about Il Treno by Tjep
News: architects including Zaha Hadid, Farshid Moussavi and Hani Rashid have signed a petition calling for Denise Scott Brown (above) to be recognised as a Pritzker Prize laureate alongside her husband, Robert Venturi, who was awarded the prestigious prize in 1991. More about Zaha Hadid joins call for Pritzker to correct Scott Brown "oversight"
Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka has stripped an office in south-west Tokyo back to the concrete to create a fashion boutique that looks more like an abandoned warehouse for Japanese brand EEL (+ slideshow). More about EEL Nakameguro by Schemata Architecture Office
Boxy wooden rooms branch out from a crooked blue spine at this family house in Sayo, Japan, in our second story this week about the work of FujiwaraMuro Architects. More about House in Sayo by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in latest video from Design Indaba in Cape Town, Masashi Kawamura of Japanese creative agency PARTY talks about the pop-up 3D photo booth he ran in Tokyo last year. More about "We wanted to bring the family portrait into the next century"
This half-scale model of a spiral staircase by American studio Matter Design is made from concrete treads that slip neatly over each other. More about Helix Staircase by Matter Design
Double-height studios bring art and architecture students together in the new college of architecture at Clemson University, South Carolina, by New York office Thomas Phifer and Partners (+ slideshow). More about Lee Hall College of Architecture by Thomas Phifer and Partners
When we posted a story about MVRDV's glass building printed with the image of a farmhouse, our readers wondered how it would be occupied and how the facade would look when illuminated from within. This new set of images reveals just that (+ slideshow). More about Glass Farm by MVRDV - night shots
News: Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have won a competition for the Moscow Polytechnic Museum and Educational Centre with a design consisting of four copper-clad elements that appear to have been "cut by the wind". More about Fuksas wins competition for Moscow Polytechnic Museum and Education Centre
Milan 2013: glass silhouettes of male and female figures reach out to each other across the tiled floor of this Milan fashion boutique by Italian designer Fabio Novembre. More about Who*s Who boutique by Fabio Novembre
Icelandic designers Katrin Olina and Garðar Eyjólfsson have teamed up to design a collection of circular aluminium tables, contrasting raw and uneven sand-cast surfaces with precise laser-cut legs. More about Aluminium tables by Katrin Olina and Garðar Eyjólfsson
This week Dezeen focussed on devices you wear to monitor your health, including the relaunch of UP by Jawbone (above). Scroll on for more news highlights and our top new track from Dezeen Music Project. More about This week on Dezeen