Business news: Molteni has become the latest Italian design brand to appoint a non-Italian creative director, signing up Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen for the role. More
Architecture firm ODA New York has conceived three glass towers for Brooklyn that feature setbacks and protrusions to ensure tenants are afforded expansive views. More
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has unveiled plans for a new Hans Christian Andersen Museum in the Danish city of Odense, which will revolve around the writer's popular fairy tales (+ slideshow). More
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has been named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2016, with a citation written by his former employer Rem Koolhaas that compares Ingels to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. More
OMA's New York office is almost doubling the size of Quebec's Musée National des Beaux-Arts with a new building in the city's Parc des Champs-de-Bataille (+ slideshow). More
American musician Prince has died suddenly aged 57. By changing his name to a graphic symbol for a period, the artist elevated himself to icon status that would last a lifetime, according to the logo's designer. More
Renderings of a sculptural Manhattan residential skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox have been unveiled to entice buyers to purchase units costing up to $18.5 million (+ slideshow). More
A replica of the Palmyra Arch – a 2,000-year-old Syrian architectural landmark believed to have been destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS – has been erected in London's Trafalgar Square. More
Grafton Architects has been selected to design a new faculty building for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in Holborn, seeing off a shortlist of prestigious firms. More
Brooklyn's first supertall skyscraper by New York studio SHoP Architects has received the go ahead for construction. More
Milan 2016: food and drinks giant PepsiCo is expanding its design team from 100 to 160 and opening studios around the world, following the success of its inaugural studio in New York (+ slideshow). More
New York's Museum of Modern Art is closing its architecture and design galleries for refurbishment, but the institution is unable to confirm that they will reopen in the same format. More
Milan 2016: students at Design Academy Eindhoven no longer aspire to be famous designers and instead want to work in industry, according to designer Andrea Trimarchi of Formafantasma, who teaches at the school. More
Beverly Hills City Council has unanimously approved plans for a driverless-car programme that could replace the affluent Los Angeles neighbourhood's public transport system. More
Chicago's mayor has suggested moving the proposed location for the controversial museum dedicated to film director George Lucas in order for the project to go ahead. More
Zaha Hadid Architects has announced it will continue to practice without its late founder and figurehead, who died suddenly last month. More
The architecture college at Washington University in St Louis has announced it plans to prohibit students from using styrene in their models, citing health risks related to the chemical that is used to make foam boards. More
The late Zaha Hadid's designs for a spiralling car park and public plaza in Miami have been rejected by city officials, five years after the architect was hired for the project. More
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Philip Johnson was an impassioned supporter of Nazism, in which he found a "new international ideal", according to a new book by American journalist Marc Wortman. More
This week on Dezeen: the Dezeen team were in Milan this week to cover product launches, events and installations from the world's biggest and most important design fair. More