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Polish design studio Wunderteam have completed a café with a faceted wooden bar, situated on the ground floor of the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has designed a speed boat in collaboration with Officina Italiana Design for Italian boat brand Riva. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This shopping centre and apartment block by Slovenian architects OFIS Arhitekti is due to begin construction in Ljubljana, Slovenia, next year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and Dezeen Watch Store proudly present a new retail venture called The Temporium – a pop-up department store featuring leading designers and brands selling their wares direct to the public. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One of our most-clicked recent stories is the Zayed National Museum by Foster + Partners, so this week here’s a roundup of all the museums we’ve published on Dezeen. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slovenian studio Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti have completed a metal-recycling plant in Pivka, Slovenia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Marcus Abrahamsson Kristoffer Fagerström have created this bench with a seat made of stacked pine batons for outdoor furniture brand Nola. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete wedges project out from the facade of this single-storey residence near Madrid by Spanish architecture studio A-Cero. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A prototype of the London 2012 Olympic Torch by designers BarberOsgerby was unveiled in London this morning. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Each bullet-sized hole piercing the skin of this museum by architects WXCA in Palmiry, Poland, represents a Polish civilian murdered there during the holocaust. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Residents of this small Japanese house can warm their feet in a heated sunken hollow beneath the dining table. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These fungus-like purses are made of layers of laser-cut silk. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith have completed the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Newly positioned windows reveal the overhauled interior of a Rotterdam townhouse that was formerly an abandoned apartment block. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with stationery brand Moleskine to give away four architectural monographs from their new series of books called Inspiration and Process in Architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects Djuric Tardio have designed a wooden tipi that could be mass-produced to provide miniature nurseries in the parks of Paris. (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Mathias Hahn has created this oak chair referencing traditional alpine furniture for London company Another Country. (more…) View the full article

Residents can step through holes in the walls inside this house in Japan by architects Atelier Cube (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen is in Venice this week for the preview of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until 25 November. See our photos from the first day on Facebook, see all our preview stories here and watch our interview with director of the biennale David Chipperfield here, in which he urges the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with” in order to avoid becoming merely “urban decorators.” Above image: Vessel by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects in the Arsenale View the full article

This bright red youth centre in Denmark by architects Cornelius + Vöge is coloured to match the fishing cabins of the surrounding village (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid’s newly completed Galaxy Soho development in Beijing (above) leads this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which includes all the best stories and reader comments from the past seven days plus the latest news, jobs and competitions. Read Dezeen Mail issue 125 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Product news: three magnetic rings can be joined in different configurations to display the date on this table calendar by South Korean designer Jeong Yong. (more…) View the full article

A wall of digital animals that distract children on their way to surgery is one of the interactive installations presented by designer Jason Bruges in this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: talks at last week's Stockholm Furniture Fair were held beneath an installation of 11,000 patterned paper sheets by Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish artist Kustaa Saksi. (more...) View the full article

A house-shaped white box seems to float above the dark grey reception of this dental clinic in Porto by Portugese architect Paulo Merlini (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article