Movie: next up in our exclusive video series celebrating the 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones looks back at how Zaha Hadid's marquee from 2000 launched the annual commission. More about Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion set the bar for what followed, says Julia Peyton-Jones
Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how his design for a "big building composed of mini units" created a headquarters for Norway's DNB Bank interspersed with indoor and outdoor meeting places, in the penultimate movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). More about MVRDV used pixellated forms to make DNB Bank "human and approachable" says Winy Maas
Spanish watersports brand Onean has unveiled two battery-powered boards that make it possible to surf without any swell (+ movie). More about Onean launches motorised electric boards for waveless surfing
Bjarke Ingels has become the latest architect to use crowdfunding to finance a project, launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for development of a power plant chimney that will blow smoke rings (+ movie) More about BIG launches Kickstarter campaign for smoke-ring-blowing chimney at Copenhagen power plant
Music: hand-drawn imagery depicts stormy and celestial scenes in Alasdair + Jock's intricate animation for David Gilmour's Rattle That Lock (+ movie). More about Satan's fall from heaven retold as an animation for David Gilmour's Rattle That Lock music video
In the first of a series of movies filmed in Milan, Patrizia Moroso, creative director of Italian furniture brand Moroso, explains why building close relationships with designers and architects is so important to her. More about "I want to work with designers that I love" says Patrizia Moroso
The eighth movie in our exclusive series profiling buildings by MVRDV looks at Frosilo – a pair of converted seed silos in Copenhagen that now contain some of the neighbourhood's most sought-after apartments (+ movie). More about Frosilo apartments offer a "great combination of old and new" says MVRDV's Jacob van Rijs
Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design a 920-metre-long bridge across the mouth of the Tamsui River in the Taiwanese capital. More about Zaha Hadid wins contest for landmark bridge across Taipei's Tamsui River
MAD architects founder Ma Yansong has created a series of carpets shaped like juicy steaks for labradors (+ movie). More about Ma Yansong designs meat-patterned rugs for dogs
Atelier Central Arquitectos has upgraded the campus of a Lisbon high school, adding a pale concrete entrance block and a network of corridors enclosed behind slender golden fins (+ movie). More about Atelier Central Arquitectos adds concrete entrance and golden walkways to Lisbon school
A Japanese inventor has developed the "world's smallest electric car" – an aluminium board with wheels that carries a passenger like a Segway and fits into a backpack (+ movie). More about Cocoa Motors' WalkCar transports passengers on a laptop-sized board
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Royal College of Art graduate Frank Kolkman has built an open-source machine that could enable people to perform keyhole surgery on themselves using a Playstation controller (+ movie). More about Designer Frank Kolkman hacks 3D printer components to build DIY surgical robot
Music: tanks, helicopters and jets chase a group of people across a shifting landscape of colourful circles in this animated music video directed by London duo Bif for electronic artist Azel Phara (+ movie). More about Azel Phara's Green music video depicts a military chase using brightly coloured geometric shapes
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund what he describes as the largest air-purifier in the world (+ movie). More about Daan Roosegaarde aims to rid cities of pollution with Smog Free Tower
Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has redesigned the set-top box, creating a matt black cube for French TV network Canal+ (+ movie). More about Yves Behar debuts cube-shaped set-top box for Canal+
MVRDV co-founder Jacob van Rijs explains how the staggered formation of his firm's Haus am Hang in Stuttgart gives every floor its own outdoor space in the latest movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). More about MVRDV created "a different kid on the block" with Haus am Hang, says Jacob van Rijs
Japanese car brand Lexus has revealed its eagerly anticipated hoverboard, which uses magnetic fields to carry its rider without touching the ground (+ movie). More about Lexus unveils Back to the Future-style hoverboard
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this movie filmed at the Royal College of Art, graduate Morten Grønning explains how he adapted an electric kitchen knife to make a prototype glove for carving hard materials. More about Electric Happaratus glove enables wood and stone to be sculpted by hand
Slate-covered walls frame this swimming pool created by architecture studio LAD in the grounds of an Italian villa, which offers swimmers views of the surrounding hills and valleys (+ movie). More about Slate-clad Fontanile Pool frames views of the Italian countryside from the garden of an old villa
Converse has released a movie explaining the changes it has made to its classic Chuck Taylor All Star basketball sneakers, which have been redesigned for the first time in over 80 years. More about Movie shows features of Converse's redesigned Chuck Taylors