External staircases connect the three stories of this cast-concrete house overlooking a lake in Norway by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk (+ slideshow). More
French architect Jean Nouvel teamed up with botanist Patrick Blanc to create this pair of plant-covered Sydney towers that reflect light into their lower levels with a huge cantilevered panel of mirrors. More
British architect Simon Astridge has added a leather-lined dressing room as part of a refurbishment of a London house (+ slideshow). More
Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a public library in Edmonton, Canada, with a metallic facade and large windows designed to draw visitors inside (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2014: Adelaide-based design studio Daniel Emma has moved into larger scale furniture and lighting for the first time with a collection launched at the London Design Festival. More
These new images by photographers Hufton + Crow reveal the curving details of the two glasshouses at Thomas Heatherwick's visitor facility for British gin brand Bombay Sapphire (+ slideshow). More
This one-bedroom apartment in Barcelona has been remodelled by Nook Architects to include a second bedroom, as well as built-in storage around three arched doorways (+ slideshow). More
News: Zaha Hadid has unveiled designs for a new Cambodian institution made up of five interwoven wooden towers to house the largest archive of genocide-related documents in Southeast Asia (+ movie). More
Rough concrete columns are juxtaposed with bright blue aluminium panels at the soon-to-open Issey Miyake flagship store in London by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka (+ slideshow + interview). More
Opinion: driven by economics and overly concerned with "iconic" design and star names, international design fairs have lost their way. But BIO 50, the design biennial in Ljublana, offers a refreshing alternative, says Louise Schouwenberg. More
Driverless trains for the London Underground, Snøhetta-designed banknotes for Norway and Ole Scheeren's "important prototype" for housing in Singapore (pictured), feature in Dezeen Mail issue 223. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Vertical lengths of timber mask the interior of this chapel designed by AZL Architects in eastern China, which features a distinctive V-shaped roof (+ slideshow). More
Japanese studio Nendo has teamed up with a traditional Japanese paper moulding specialist to create a collection of pendant light shades with a coloured exterior and reflective interior (+ slideshow). More
News: British supermarket giant Tesco has followed up its Hudl device – one of the first "affordable" Android tablets – with a second model by product designers Chauhan Studio, which goes on sale today. More
News: designs by London studio Priestmangoode are due to be rolled out on four London tube lines in 2020, and could be the first fleet of driverless Underground trains (+ interview + movie). More
Japanese studio Case-Real has completed a small timber-clad cabin at the base of Mount Kamafuse in Saitama Prefecture (+ slideshow). More
Dutch Design Week 2014: Rug company ICE International will launch a set of eight different carpets by individuals from four "design couples" – including Piet Hein Eek, Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk – at next week's Dutch Design Week. More
This concrete sports hall by Belgian studio URA has been built into a hillside in the wooded grounds of a school just outside Brussels (+ slideshow). More
Dutch Design Week 2014: This chair by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Govert Flint allows the user to control their computer cursor with a range of body movements (+ movie). More
Studiomama has converted the upper floors of a 300 year-old building in Stockholm's medieval old town to create a pair of 200-metre-square apartments with built-in wooden fittings (+ slideshow). More