Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has created a collection of sneakers and slip-ons for American shoe company Converse, featuring a handwritten poem celebrating the "sensual curve" for which his architecture is famous (+ slideshow). More about The Oscar Niemeyer Collection for Converse
The big news this week is Apple bringing its hardware and software design teams together under the direction of Jonathan Ive (above), a move our readers think is "long overdue" and they hope will mean the end of "that nasty skeuomorphism fetish" where software interfaces are styled to resemble leather and wood. More about This week on Dezeen
Dutch Design Week: a Victorian scientist's laboratory experiments inspired Dutch designer David Derksen to create these glass lamps and vases, which have double walls like a Thermos flask. More about Dewar Glassware by David Derksen
Mexican firm Fernando Romero EnterprisE (FR-EE) has won a competition to design a chapel in Miami with plans modelled on the pleated fabric gown of religious figure the Lady of Guadalupe. More about Miami Chapel by FR-EE
Interieur 2012: objects that seem like half-finished sketches of candle holders, vases, bowls and bottles won British designer Maya Selway second prize in the Object category of the Interieur Design Awards at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). More about Kishu by Maya Selway
World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Kerry Hill won the award in the housing category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for an apartment building in Singapore and in this interview we filmed he discusses how he believes the nation is developing an "emerging approach to design" rather than an architectural style. More about "I hope that Singapore doesn't have a style" - Kerry Hill on Martin No. 38
News: Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti, best known for the interior design of Paris art gallery the Musée d'Orsay, has died at the age of 84. More about Gae Aulenti 1927-2012
Hard hats and high visibility jackets are displayed as fashion items at this Singapore boutique that architects Ministry of Design designed for a safety equipment brand (+ slideshow). More about Durasafe Store by Ministry of Design
Interieur 2012: soft leather seats hang between the colourful plastic shelves of this furniture by Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen presented at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). More about Future Primitives by Muller Van Severen
World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Paul Williams of Stanton Williams tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs why his team designed the new campus for London art and design college Central Saint Martins as "a blank canvas" where different disciplines could "take form and ownership", in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival last month. More about "An art college should be a blank canvas" - Paul Williams on Central Saint Martins
News: Moscow skyscraper Mercury City topped out today and has overtaken Renzo Piano's The Shard as the tallest building in Europe. More about Moscow's Mercury City overtakes The Shard as Europe's tallest skyscraper
In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Studiomama founder Nina Tolstrup talks about the chair she modified for the Stepney Green Design Collection and how "there are always materials to be found" in east London. More about "In the East End there are always materials to be found" - Nina Tolstrup
Zaha Hadid's newly completed Galaxy Soho development in Beijing (above) leads this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which includes all the best stories and reader comments from the past seven days plus the latest news, jobs and competitions.
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Interieur 2012: British designer Ross Lovegrove presented a futuristic concept car shaped according to instinct rather than science at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ movie). More about Futuristic Primitivism/Instinctive Override by Ross Lovegrove
Hundreds of perforations are dotted across the monolithic facade of this weekend house outside Mexico City by AS/D Asociación de Diseño. More about Casa Alta by AS/D Asociación de Diseño
Dutch Design Week: twenty-five designers set up their own production lines inside a former textile factory in the Netherlands last week, making furniture, lighting, clothes, shoes, food, paper and more with the help of visitors. More about C-Fabriek curated by Itay Ohaly and Thomas Vailly
A loosely curving wall of timber shingles spirals around this visitor centre that Dutch studio Emma Architecten has constructed beside one of the coastal batteries of Amsterdam's historic defence line (+ slideshow). More about Paviljoen Puur by Emma Architecten
Danish studio Space Copenhagen has overhauled the interior of Copenhagen eatery Noma, which was this year named "World's Best Restaurant" for the third time in a row (+ slideshow). More about Noma Restaurant by Space Copenhagen
Product news: British designer David Irwin has created pentagonal pendant lights that are bound together by silicon bands for design company Deadgood. More about EXTL pendant lights by David Irwin for Deadgood
Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: German designer Annika Frye incorporated a cordless drill in the rotational moulding machine she built for making one-off items using a process that would normally result in an identical series (+ movie). More about Improvisation Machine by Annika Frye