News: on the eve of a major exhibition about his life, architect Richard Rogers has spoken of how architecture's civic responsibility has been eroded in "an age of greed". Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More
Kingston University graduate Aaron Dunkerton has designed an enclosed cavity brick fitting that allows endangered birds to nest in new buildings and garden walls. More
Interview: in this exclusive interview designer Tom Dixon tells us why he decided to design his first watch - and how he wanted to make it easy to read the time (+ movie). More
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed a family house in Shiga, Japan, that is 27 metres long but only 2.7 metres wide (+ slideshow). More
The latest version of the affordable XO tablet, designed by Yves Behar for the One Laptop Per Child Association, goes on sale this week (+ movie). More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Thames & Hudson to give readers the chance to win one of five compendiums of work by Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). More
The curved plasterwork of typical Mediterranean architecture influenced the smooth white interior of this store for skin and haircare brand Aesop in London's Covent Garden. More
Product news: these tables by London designer Michael Sodeau have noughts and crosses inserted between their legs. More
Gehry Partners has released images of its shortlisted entry for the competition to design the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing - a competition thought to have been won by Jean Nouvel. More
News: London architect Zaha Hadid has unveiled plans for an 11-storey apartment block that will be constructed beside New York's popular High Line park. More
News: the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has appointed Asian curator Doryun Chong as chief curator of Hong Kong's forthcoming M+ museum of visual culture. More
News: a human-powered helicopter by Canadian startup AeroVelo has become the first winner of a 33-year-old aviation prize, after hovering for 64 seconds and reaching an altitude of 3.3 metres. More
This boxy house in Kyoto by Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Atelier (YYAA) has a narrow body intended to recreate the proportions of Japanese government-built apartments of the 1950s, 60s and 70s (+ slideshow). More
Design graduate Joe Buttigieg has created a tubular steel chair that can be easily stored by hooking the seat over the surface of a desk or table. More
In this movie we filmed in New York, French designer Philippe Starck explains how his Organic tap for bathroom brand Axor dramatically reduces water consumption by combining it with air. More
Hong Kong-based architecture photographer Edmon Leong has sent us a set of exclusive photos of Zaha Hadid's nearly-completed Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (+ slideshow). More
Clothing can be tucked away behind the textile skins of these storage units by German designer Meike Harde. More
Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem has renovated a 1950s house in Tel Aviv with a roughly hewn sandstone mosaic wall inside it (+ slideshow). More
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