MAD's twisting skyscrapers in Canada, OMA's proposals for Sydney and our coverage of Design Miami all feature in Dezeen Mail issue 131 along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments.
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New York practice Cooper Joseph Studio was inspired by Mexican beach huts to insert four pyramidal chimneys behind the concrete exterior of this playground pavilion in Dallas, Texas (+ slideshow). More about Webb Chapel Park Pavilion by Cooper Joseph Studio
Dutch studio MVRDV has given the new Oslo headquarters for Norwegian bank DNB a pixellated appearance by building a stack of brick and glass cubes (+ slideshow). More about DNB Bank Headquarters by MVRDV
Design Miami: Belgian designer Maarten de Ceulaer nailed bendy leather planks onto solid wood to create this installation of stripy furniture for Italian fashion house Fendi (+ slideshow). More about Transformations by Maarten de Ceulaer for Fendi
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five prints by UK designers Dorothy that feature bands and songs with colours in their names next to corresponding hues on the colour wheel (+ slideshow). More about Competition: five Colour of Popular Music and Song prints to give away
A grid of timber louvres screens either end of this house in Japan, which is the letter M in our daily A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House M »
More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: House M by AE5 partners
Product News: French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a collection of cutlery for Italian design brand Alessi. More about Ovale cutlery by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Alessi
Chinese firm MAD has completed a pair of curvaceous twisted skyscrapers in the growing city of Mississauga, Canada (+ slideshow). More about Absolute Towers by MAD
Three Royal College of Art architecture graduates have used stripped scaffolding boards and reclaimed parquet flooring to create a wooden cafe at the school's Battersea campus in south London (+ slideshow). More about Royal College of Art Student Union Cafe by Weston Surman & Deane
News: Dieter Rams (pictured), the former head of design at Braun, has made furniture brand Vitsœ the exclusive worldwide licencee of his complete collection of furniture designs. More about Vitsœ granted exclusive licence to produce Dieter Rams furniture
Dezeen promotion: Designersblock Department Store will showcase work by young designers and makers at Interiors UK 2013 in Birmingham next month, and registration is now open to attend the event. More about Designersblock Department Store at Interiors UK 2013
News: the way architecture is consumed through websites like Dezeen is "utterly disastrous", according to UK critic Owen Hatherley (above). More about Architecture "no longer interested in anything but its own image"
A looping bridge by three Bosnian product design students has been completed outside the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (+ slideshow). More about Festina Lente bridge by Adnan Alagić,Bojan Kanlić and Amila Hrustić
Design Miami: Belgian designer Jens Praet used bronze drapes cast from sheets of cloth to dress these pieces of brass furniture. More about Dressed collection by Jens Praet
This conceptual house would be wrapped entirely in a plastic insulating material normally used on roofs. Intended for Łódź in Poland, it's the lowercase letter l in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about l House »
More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: l House by moomoo architects
Eight architecture students from the University of Colorado have designed and built a cabin in the Utah desert for a Navajo woman (+ slideshow). More about Nakai House by University of Colorado students
Design Miami: design duo Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram have used technology from the car-racing industry to develop a chair made by robots that weighs just 2.2 kilograms (+ movie). More about R18 Ultra Chair by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram
News: flexible high-tech rental apartments with moving "robo-walls" should replace speculative developments as young people increasingly view homes as services rather than possessions, according to Kent Larson, director of the Changing Places Group at MIT Media Lab (+ movie). More about American dream "breaking down" as young reject home ownership
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five Pilot Stools in collaboration with Belgian design brand Quinze & Milan. More about Competition: five Pilot Stools by Quinze & Milan to give away
News: a team made up of architecture firms OMA, Hassell and Populous has been selected to redevelop Sydney's convention, exhibition and entertainment precinct at Darling Harbour (+ slideshow). More about OMA, Hassell and Populous to redevelop Sydney's Darling Harbour