Dolfi is a tiny ultrasonic washing machine for delicate clothes
Product designer Andre Fangueiro has created a small pebble-shaped device that uses ultrasonic sound waves to clean clothes (+ movie). More
Rogers Stirk Harbour's Cheesegrater skyscraper documented in timelapse film
Movie: photographer Paul Raftery and filmmaker Dan Lowe have produced a timelapse documentary showing the construction of Rogers Stirk Harbour's recently completed Leadenhall Building in London, also known as the Cheesegrater. More
Jean Nouvel boycotts opening of his Paris concert hall
News: French architect Jean Nouvel has issued a statement saying he will not attend the opening of his Philharmonie de Paris this evening, claiming it is "not finished" and defending his firm against allegations regarding cost overruns. More
Norman Foster narrates drone tour of New York's Hearst skyscraper
News: a decade after the final beam was placed atop the Norman Foster-designed Hearst Tower in New York, the architect has returned to the building to mark its anniversary with a film captured using a drone (+ movie). More
Brooke Roberts turns brain scans into knitwear patterns
Cardiac radiographer and designer Brooke Roberts has used digital knitting technology to create garments with patterns based on MRI brain scans and medical imagery (+ interview). More
"I don't expect a bargain for good design, but fair prices would be a nice change"
Comments update: Tony Ash, managing director of furniture brand Vitra, says designers need protecting from copycats – but readers aren't sure that cheap rip-offs are the design industry's biggest problem. More
Creative industries in the UK generate £8.8 million per hour
News: the creative industries are now worth £76.9 billion per year to the UK, with the design sector enjoying the biggest growth. More
Visitors to Lisbon's Vertigo Climbing Center can clamber on the cafe
Architects João Quintela and Tim Simon have built a pavilion inside a climbing centre in Lisbon, providing a cafe and reception space that visitors can also scramble over (+ slideshow). More
Palo Alto footbridge will span the 14 lanes of San Francisco's 101 freeway
News: a team led by 64North Architecture has won a competition to design a pedestrian and cyclist bridge connecting the San Francisco Bay waterfront and Palo Alto – home to some of the world's leading technology companies. More
Ole Bouman named as director of V&A-backed design museum in China
News: Ole Bouman, former head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, has been named as the director of a major new design museum developed in collaboration with the V&A in Shekou, Shenzhen. More
"If you need to live in a nuclear shelter this is it"
Comments update: a top heavy concrete house beside a Chilean lagoon proved unexpectedly divisive this week, with readers describing it as both "beautiful" and a "brick sh*thouse". More
WobbleWorks unveils new pen for drawing 3D objects in the air
CES 2015: the makers of the first popular 3D-printing pen 3Doodler have unveiled a smaller device, which weighs just 50 grams. More
Cohta Asano divides Japanese hair salon with diamond-shaped partitions
Young Japanese architect Cohta Asano created a new space for a hairdresser inside an existing building in Iwaki, adding a steel frame to support angular wooden shelves and partitions (+ slideshow). More
Cauliflowers create moulds for "monster" stool by Studio Pasternak
The legs of this stool covered in a skin-tight coating of black rubber were formed using silicone moulds cast from raw cauliflowers (+ slideshow). More
Lipton Plant creates a nanny flat underneath a London home
Architecture studio Lipton Plant has turned a small space at the side of a Victorian house in north London into the glazed entrance for a basement extension focused around an oak staircase (+ slideshow). More
Montblanc introduces luxury smart strap for analogue watches
News: luxury watch brand Montblanc has entered the wearable technology market, choosing to add a device to its straps instead of turning its analogue timepieces into smartwatches. More
Happy New Year from Dezeen
Happy New Year from the Dezeen team and best wishes for 2015! This image of the fireworks competition at England's Belvoir Castle was taken by our design editor Dan Howarth.
Dezeen's 10 biggest architecture and design stories of 2014
To see 2014 out with a bang, we've pulled together our most read stories of the year – including a silk leaf that could create oxygen in space, furniture for space-poor hipsters and a house with a swimming pool instead of a roof. More
Architect Quinlan Terry awarded in New Year Honours 2015
News: Classical architect Quinlan Terry is one of a small number of architecture and design industry figures to be recognised in the 2015 New Year Honours list. More
Dezeen's most popular interior design projects of 2014
We published hundreds of projects from all over the world in 2014 – from tiny apartments to technology firm offices, cafes and luxury penthouses – but these are the 10 interiors that proved most popular with Dezeen readers. More