This week Thomas Heatherwick was accused of copying the design for the Olympic Cauldron just days after being awarded a CBE for services to the design industry. Read on for more architecture and design news from the last seven days plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: DMY Berlin founder Joerg Suermann gives us a guided tour of this year's design festival in our second report from Berlin. More
Dezeen archive: following claims that Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron design isn't original, we've compiled our top stories about copying in design. More
Spiralling stone walls will be carved with images of extinct species - with space reserved for future extinctions - at this observatory and education centre designed by Adjaye Associates for the Isle of Portland, England. More
Opinion: in the second of two columns exploring the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob looks at how Google Maps is reshaping cities while Apple, Facebook and Amazon are reshaping the natural landscape by building their own headquarters as self-contained ecosystems. More
This deep house track by German producers Wave Crushers has a wonderfully laid-back groove - the perfect way to ease into the weekend.
The track was submitted to Dezeen Music Project by German label Aux Audio.
You can listen to more house music on Dezeen Music Project here.
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News: London architecture firm Grimshaw has unveiled a masterplan for the home of the annual Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament. More
Australian architect Raffaello Rosselli has repurposed a corroding tin shed in Sydney to create a small office and studio apartment (+ slideshow). More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Domaine de Boisbuchet in south-west France to offer the chance to win a place on an architecture and design workshop this summer (+ slideshow). More
A group of Royal College of Art graduates has used the pulp from mulched newspapers to form helmets for London's cycle hire scheme (+ movie). More