This week the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik scooped the most prestigious European architecture prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award. Read on for more highlights in architecture and design over the past seven days. More
News: a tiny robotic insect that hovers in the air like a fly has been built by scientists at Harvard University (+ movies). More
Milan 2013: German designer Ingo Maurer's table without any legs has gone into production with British brand Established & Sons. More
News: JDS Architects has unveiled plans for an M-shaped office building with green terraces in the north of Turkey's largest city. More
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the first of a series of films recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan last month, MINI head of design Anders Warming explains the thinking behind the brand's presentation during the furniture fair while Johanna Agerman Ross, editor-in-chief of Disegno magazine, gives her opinion on the highlights of the world's most important design week. More
News: nanotechnology scientists at an American university have 3D-printed a bionic ear that can hear radio frequencies beyond a human's normal range. More
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban developed these timber and earth houses for the rehabilitation of a Sri Lankan fishing village that was swept away during the 2004 tsunami (+ slideshow). More
This holiday house with rammed earth walls by US architects DUST is nestled amongst the rocky outcrops and sprouting cacti of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2013: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a chair with armrests that stretch outwards like limbs for Danish brand &tradition. More