"We are at the beginning of a remarkable time" says Apple's Jonathan Ive
News: Apple's reclusive head designer Jonathan Ive says the technological age in still in its infancy in his first in-depth interview in almost 20 years. More
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Google unveils Android Wear operating system for smartwatches
News: Google has unveiled an operating system designed specifically for wearable devices called Android Wear, plus details of the first smartwatches to incorporate the technology. More
Future smartphones could be charged by stroking them
News: researchers in America have developed a friction-based miniature generator that could enable mobile devices to be charged by typing or stroking the screen. More
Graphene sensors could create night-vision contact lenses
News: miracle material graphene has been used to develop infrared sensors, which could be inserted into contact lenses and allow the wearer to see in the dark. More
Work starts on New Jersey's tallest building by HWKN and Handel Architects
News: construction is now underway on a 222-metre skyscraper by New York studios HWKN and Handel Architects that is set to become the tallest building in the state of New Jersey. More
Software advances are "blurring boundaries between design disciplines"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and designer Daniel Widrig explains how he uses technology borrowed from the special effects business to design everything from jewellery to skyscrapers. More
Preview of products to launch at May Design Series
Dezeen promotion: international brands will be launching new products at this year's May Design Series event, taking place in London from 18 to 20 May. More
Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas and Kengo Kuma join fight to save Moscow's Shukhov Tower
News: architects including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, Kengo Kuma, Thom Mayne and Elizabeth Diller have launched an urgent appeal to Russian president Vladimir Putin to halt demolition of Moscow's iconic Shukhov Radio Tower. More
"Architecture is not art" says Patrik Schumacher in Venice Architecture Biennale rant
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: director of Zaha Hadid Architects Patrik Schumacher has taken to Facebook to launch an attack on political correctness in architecture and a perceived trend for prioritising art over form-making. More
OMA plans San Francisco skyscraper
News: architecture firm OMA is working on designs for a 167-metre skyscraper on Folsom Street in San Francisco. More
Franco-Prussian war site hosts block of flats by Guérin & Pedroza Architects
A seven-storey block of flats by Guérin & Pedroza Architects is the latest addition to a project transforming the site of a nineteenth century fort outside Paris into a new residential district (+ slideshow). More
Giant timber nest provides meeting room at Baya Park offices by Planet 3 Studios
A wooden pod resembling the woven structure of a bird's nest can be used for meetings at this sales office for a property development in Mumbai by local firm Planet 3 Studios (+ slideshow). More
Uma by Kazunaga Sakashita updates archetypal trestle table
The base of this table by Japanese designer Kazunaga Sakashita was inspired by trestles found in factories and on construction sites. More