NASA – the US space agency that announced the discovery of flowing water on Mars this week – has chosen a winner in its contest to design proposals for 3D-printed housing on the red planet (+ slideshow). More
Opinion: charisma can't be learned, but it is often the architect's last line of defence against demanding clients and unsavoury economic realties, says Reinier de Graaf. More
London Design Festival 2015: Amsterdam tech company Fairphone has launched a new version of its ethically produced smartphone. More
Comments update: London's Royal College of Art is in the spotlight this week on Dezeen following more staff departures and the suspension of its world-famous Design Interactions course. Read on for more on this and explore our comments page to keep up with the latest discussions. More
Design and engineering sibling duo Gaspard and Lucas Tiné-Berès have created a prototype for a tricycle that allows riders to change direction by leaning to either side (+ movie). More
Images have emerged of Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery – designed by London architecture studio Caruso St John in a row of converted and extended theatre warehouses. More
London office Delvendahl Martin Architects has merged and extended a pair of Victorian semi-detached houses in Oxford to create a new double-fronted home for one family (+ slideshow). More
Architecture firm AZPML has completed its £750 million overhaul of Birmingham New Street railway station in the UK – but co-founder Alejandro Zaera-Polo says the result "could have been much better". More
Interaction designer Daniel Bjorkman has created a conceptual adaptive logo and visual identity for Swedish art school Akademin Valand (+ slideshow). More
British artist Lucy Sparrow is filling an adults-only shop in London's Soho district with sex toys, porn magazines and bondage gear all made of felt. More
Karl Lenton of UK company Safe Innovations has designed these mobile therapy spaces to give prisoners better and more comfortable access to healthcare. More
New York-based Rafael Viñoly Architects has conceived a pair of residential towers for Chicago's growing South Loop neighbourhood, on a site overlooking a park. More
An award-winning visitor centre completed last year by Oto Arquitectos on the Cape Verde island of Fogo has been destroyed by a volcano (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2015: the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland invited more than 20 designers and craftspeople to contribute to its Ó exhibition at Tent London (+ slideshow). More
Feature: with the first Chicago Architecture Biennial kicking off later this week, Dezeen picks 10 of the projects – past and present – that have helped shape the city that gave birth to contemporary high-rise architecture. More
Grimshaw Architects, the London firm behind bubble-shaped ecological park the Eden Project, has signed a £100 million deal to design a similar scheme named China Eden in Qingdao. More
The Royal College of Art has suspended its world-famous Design Interactions course after failing to find replacements for staff who resigned earlier this year. More
Competition: to celebrate 15 years of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Dezeen has teamed up with fashion brand COS to offer readers the chance to win tickets to a talk with the gallery's co-directors Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. More
Supermodel Kate Moss has become the latest celebrity to launch a design career, creating interiors for a house that forms part of a "luxury second homes" development in the English countryside. More
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled plans for a trio of housing towers in Ho Chi Minh City linked by aerial bridges and shielded from the harsh tropical sunlight by swathes of bamboo (+ slideshow). More