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Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi has completed this house surrounded by car parks in Akita, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish design trio Front have created a giant, three-headed shower installation constructed from a maze of standard copper pipes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A perforated metal facade screens a round school in Denmark designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter around a central triple-height gym. Read more View the full article

Here are some photographs of the completed Tree Hotel by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, a mirrored glass box suspended round the trunk of a tree in Harads, northern Sweden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sloping corridor coils around the inside of a house in Osaka to connect three staggered storeys. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh have completed a see-through church in Limburg, Belgium. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with New York company .MGX by Materialise and artist Daniel Wright to create this 3D printed breastplate. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian studio Alexander & Co has added wooden furnishings and a caged rattan ceiling to the formerly austere interior of this Italian restaurant in Sydney. Read more View the full article

This animation by Emmy Castelain flips through our new Dezeen Book of Ideas, which features 116 projects by the world’s best creative minds. We’ll show the animation at our party in Barcelona this evening - click here for more details and your invitation. Watch the movie » If you can’t attend in person, you can order the book online for just £12 at www.dezeenbookofideas.com. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

White Arkitekter has created a concept for a new mother and baby health unit at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more

This wire and concrete seating by London studio VW+BS for design brand Decode is one of ten benches to be exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Found Associates have completed this restaurant with an oak and concrete interior in west London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This two-storey extension by French architect Loïc Picquet converts an old farm building into a rural guesthouse in the Alsace region of France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Translucent boxes propped up on a forest of steel rods display products by skincare brand Aesop at a Hong Kong fashion store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design brand Luminaire present a lecture and reception with furniture and rug designer Paola Lenti at Outdoor Therapy in Miami on 7 October. (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

An adjacent busy road is screened from this house by Japanese firm FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, hidden behind a wall suspended over the terrace edge to line up with the boundary wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato has installed coils of aluminium sheeting at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another new watch from our 2012 Dezeen Watch Store collection. The stainless steel BN0042 is a square-faced timepiece from the Braun range. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week: Vienna designers Dottings presented a series of coffee cups made of recycled aluminium coffee capsules for coffee brand Nespresso in Vienna last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh designed Towers Road House as "a sculpture to live within", with high concrete walls that arc under a disc-shaped zinc roof. Read more View the full article

These photos from British designer Austin Houldsworth show the results of his machine, featured in our earlier story, built to fossilise a partridge (above) and a pineapple. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plans for The Tulip, a 305.3-metre-high viewing tower designed by Foster + Partners, have been rejected by London's mayor Sadiq Khan. Read more

This week we featured projects at Selfridges' Festival of Imagination, where Dezeen has created an augmented-reality shop and Dominic Wilcox has installed absurd inventions like a tea cup with a cooling fan (pictured) in one of the department store's windows. More architecture and design news follows, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: more from Mark Holmes of Minimalux (see the new collection Part 1 in our earlier story), this time a series of machined and anodised aluminium desktop objects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article