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This tree-top hotel room by Swedish architects Cyrén & Cyrén, is accessed via a bridge leading from the hilly forest to an entrance on the roof. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this final movie from our series filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, academy graduate Bas Princen talks about his work as a photographer. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architect Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY has completed a perforated aluminium pavilion that resembles a giant piece of coral. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Luzinterruptus installed an army of radioactive scarecrows at a German festival and we finished the summer by rounding up our top ten stories about swimming pools. We also released the Dezeen Book of Ideas for pre-order ahead of its launch at Dezeen Space during the London Design Festival later this month. UK design organisation Hidden Art was forced to close, Angela Brady took over from Ruth Reed as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects and artist Ai Weiwei branded Beijing as “a city of violence” in an article for American magazine Newsweek. The winners of this year’s Index Awards were announced, including See Better to Learn Bet…

Dezeen Wire: architecture critics have been offering their thoughts on Daniel Libeskind’s divisive Military History Museum in Dresden, which opened earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This extension to a north London home comprises three shed-like blocks clad in unfinished larch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concave walls at the centre of this Hong Kong boutique hide a stockroom and fitting rooms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2012: designers Elin Carlsten and Elisabeth Thostrup show this cabinet with sliding metal doors suspended from wheels on a rail as part of the Greenhouse exhibition of young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Movie: Rem Koolhaas was at the ICA in London this morning to launch OMA’s design for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. He gave Dezeen a quick introduction to the new gallery, which will be built in Gorky Park in the Russian capital for gallerist Dasha Zukhova. (more…) View the full article

Rectilinear blocks of glass and concrete overlap one another at this house in Mexico City by architect Fernanda Canales (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A chequered facade of timber and glass surrounds one of two new neighbourhood libraries by Adjaye Associates to open in Washington DC. (more…) View the full article

OMA present an archive of buildings designed by European local authority architects in the 1960s and 70s at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, which opens to the public this week. (more…) View the full article

Visitors to this temporary theatre in the Netherlands designed by TAAT perform their own play by reading from wooden cubes based on Buddhist prayer wheels. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week: twenty-five designers set up their own production lines inside a former textile factory in the Netherlands last week, making furniture, lighting, clothes, shoes, food, paper and more with the help of visitors. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Form Us With Love, Central St Martins College of Art and Design and Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marcel Wanders, UNStudio, Russell Sage Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

Dutch designers Waarmakers have created sustainable rubbish sacks for discarding unwanted items in good condition, in the hope that they'll be picked up by a new owner instead of ending up at a landfill site. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: inspired by iconic Swiss railway clocks, Evo Big Date is the third new watch in our collection from Mondaine. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Fabio Novembre presented these giant skull-shaped chairs for Italian brand Gufram at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week. (more...) View the full article

London studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has converted a historic chapel in Wiltshire, England, into a house with a blackened-timber extension conceived as the building's shadow. (more...) View the full article

News: the shortlist for awards at this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore features over 250 projects, including a floating theatre in China, a giraffe house in New Zealand, a research station in Antarctica and a whirlpool-shaped aquarium in Denmark. (more...) View the full article

Northmodern 2015: Danish design company Menu has released a range of homeware accessories in pale oak and pastel colours intended to "stay classy for generations" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Researchers in Canada have designed a family of prosthetic musical instruments, including an external spine and a touch-sensitive rib cage, that create music in response to body gestures (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Balconies shaped like greenhouses project from the facades of these apartment blocks in Nantes by French studio Block Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our interview with rendering guru Peter Guthrie leads this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, followed by Gehry and Foster's Battersea collaboration plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 175 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Anemone tentacles moving beneath the surface of the ocean influenced the latticed facade of this student housing block by French studio Atelier Fernandez & Serres at an oceanic observatory in the eastern Pyrénées (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article