Interview: hybrid and electric technologies are changing the way cars are designed after decades of stagnation, according to BMW's Benoit Jacob, speaking exclusively to Dezeen about the i8 sports car (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of Austrian design was presented beneath a translucent vaulted ceiling at Milan's La Pelota during this year's Salone del Mobile furniture fair (+ movie). More
Israeli artist Tsibi Geva has wrapped his country's Venice pavilion in old car tyres and filled it with a mixture of found architectural and household objects to explore ideas about the home (+ slideshow). More
A drystone wall frames the glazed pavilions that make up this family summer house, which is perched on a hilltop on the southern tip of Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula (+ slideshow). More
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has attached two long cushions to the back of this outdoor chair with coloured straps. More
A glazed corridor connects the four house-shaped buildings that make up this holiday home on the outskirts of Porto, designed by young Portuguese studio PROD (+ slideshow). More
New York 2015: textile designer Dusen Dusen has used magnetic wallpaper to create an interactive mural for the 2015 Wanted Design show in Brooklyn (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2015: David Adjaye, Alex Chinneck and Mischer'Traxler are among the designers set to create installations for this year's London Design Festival, which will include an electricity pylon turned on its head and a courtyard filled with mirrors (+ slideshow). More
A group of architecture students has developed a conceptual "levitation suit" that allows guests to experience 3D sleeping as if they were floating in zero gravity (+ slideshow). More
Solar panels cover the rooftops of these four townhouses in Boston by local firm ISA, allowing them to sustainably produce more energy and hot water than their occupants are likely to use (+ slideshow). More
To celebrate the launch of Dezeen's office in New York, our recruitment platform Dezeen Jobs is offering new advertisers in the USA their first job ad free! More
Dutch firm MVRDV has been selected to transform an elevated road in Seoul into a public park that could become South Korea's answer to the High Line. More
BIG has completed its second addition to a school in Denmark – an art school beneath a football field that joins the underground gymnasium with a humped courtyard on its roof (+ slideshow). More
New York 2015: Dezeen's US editor Jenna McKnight picks 10 designers not to miss at New York's Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition, which opens this Friday (+ slideshow). More
A pine unit provides a kitchen, bathroom and mezzanine level for this tiny Berlin apartment designed by two local architects, which also features Art Deco details including a parquet door (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: Dutch design studio Droog has launched a collection of small hardware items to focus on the functional elements of furniture design that are often overlooked. More
Milan Expo 2015: gardens of fruit trees are framed by the white concrete walls of Bahrain's Milan Expo pavilion, designed by Dutch architect Anne Holtrop as a peaceful oasis of green (+ slideshow + interview). More
New York 2015: New York studio Snarkitecture has used patterns of the city's subway tiles and marbled surfaces to cover a range of clothes that allow the wearer to blend in with the urban environment (+ slideshow). More
Opinion: an exhibition at New York's Museum of Arts and Design about women's role in postwar Modernism highlights the uneasy gender imbalance between craft and industrial design, says Alexandra Lange. More
Comments update: the robotic cranes proposed for building Google's new HQ triggered a debate about "hackable" architecture this week – read on for more on this and the other most commented stories on Dezeen. More