What Design Can Do offers 15% off tickets for Dezeen readers
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with the annual What Design Can Do conference to give readers a 15 per cent discount on tickets for this year's event in Amsterdam. More
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Renzo Piano's "prodigiously misassembled" Whitney Museum is a grower, say critics
Renzo Piano's new building for one of New York's most prestigious museums has been described by critics as an "art tanker", "ungainly" and "more clunky than romantic" – but they like it anyway. More
Tokujin Yoshioka installs glass tea house beside an ancient Japanese temple
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More
Job of the week: industrial designer with Fernando Romero
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an industrial designer at the firm of Mexican architect Fernando Romero, who is designing one of the biggest airports on earth with Norman Foster (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
MINI's augmented-reality glasses allow drivers to see through the body of their car
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this exclusive video interview, Jörg Preißinger of BMW Group Research and Technology explains how the prototype augmented-reality glasses his team have developed can make the solid parts of a car appear transparent. More
Superkül extends Canadian farmhouse with rusty Corten-clad block
Pre-rusted steel clads this L-shaped extension to a farmhouse in rural Canada, giving the block a burnt orange colouring that complements the red brickwork of its neighbour (+ slideshow). More
Alcarol turns damaged marble-cutting worktops into resin-coated tables
Milan 2015: Italian design duo Alcarol has launched a collection of furniture made from worktops taken out of Italian quarries and marble processing labs (+ movie). More
Renzo Piano's new building for the Whitney set to open
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art – an asymmetric steel and concrete assembly in Manhattan's Meatpacking District (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen's #milanogram2015 winner revealed
Milan 2015: more than 9,000 images from Milan's design week have been uploaded to Instagram using our #milanogram2015 tag, but this shot by Matti Kleell has been named best photograph by our panel of judges. More
Safdie Architects designs museum to honour American war heroes
Moshe Safdie's firm has unveiled its design for the National Medal of Honor Museum in South Carolina – a five-pointed structure that will present the history of the USA's most revered soldiers. More
Dezeen Mail #250
Apple's Milan pavilion, architectural photography captured using Instagram and marble vases designed by Zaha Hadid feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for our pick of the best news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Nendo follows up Milan exhibition with stacking chair for Kokuyo
Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has created a chair for office furniture company Kokuyo, following its one-year retrospective exhibition in Milan (+ slideshow). More
3D-printing pioneer MakerBot lays off staff and closes stores
Business news: MakerBot, once the darling of the 3D-printing scene, has laid off 20 per cent of its staff and closed its three retail stores after failing to meet its financial growth targets. More
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Huize Looveld is a blackened timber house built on the site of a razed farmstead
Strips of dark-stained timber give a charred appearance to the three stacked blocks that form this house in the Netherlands, which replaces another property that was destroyed by fire (+ slideshows). More
"People have had it with the smells and verrucas from indoor pools" says Thames Baths founder
Interview: a Kickstarter campaign has launched to fund a floating swimming pool for London's River Thames. According to Studio Octopi architect and project co-founder Chris Romer-Lee, the city is experiencing an outdoor swimming revolution. More
Boffi eyes US market growth with De Padova acquisition
Business news: luxury Italian kitchen and bathroom brand Boffi has acquired furniture company De Padova, adding free-standing pieces to its range of products in a move to appeal to the US market. More
Competition: win a place on the summer workshops at Domaine de Boisbuchet
Competition: Domaine de Boisbuchet is offering Dezeen readers the chance to win a place on a week-long design workshop at a chateau in south-west France this summer. More
"Drip-free" umbrella encloses wet canopy on the inside
This umbrella has a frame that turns its canopy inside out, keeping water droplets inside as well as allowing it to open and close in confined spaces (+ movie). More
DSDHA's Covert House is designed to camouflage with its surroundings
Architects Deborah Saunt and David Hills used underground rooms and mirrors to help disguise the volume of their house, which is located in a conservation area in leafy south London (+ slideshow). More