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Japanese architect Schuichiro Yoshida have renovated the ground floor of a residence in Tokushima, Japan, by replacing the existing building with a Japanese cedar structure. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Yusuke Fujitat has sent us some photos of an apartment renovation project in Midorigaoka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, communications agency BBH, Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Beijing architects MAD. This is also the last chance to apply for jobs with UNStudio, Jason Bruges Studio, Mikou Design Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another update from the cutting edge of toilet design: Copenhagen studio UiWE are working on urinals for women. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY: this calendar by German designer Susanna Hertrich shreds paper displaying each passing day. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Yves Béhar launched a waterproof sex toy and John Pawson had a solo exhibition of his work at the Design Museum in London. Ole Scheeren opened his new studio, having left OMA in March 2010, Pugh + Scarpa announced their decision to split and Alexis Georgacopoulos was appointed director of ECAL. Meanwhile Foreign Office Architects completed their tile-clad Ravensbourne campus and Eastern Design Office completed a house for a dying client. The Hel Yes! temporary Finnish restaurant opened in London, Studio Toogood released a collection of handles modelled on sticks, stones and bones, and Dutch architects Bureau SLA finished the National Gl…

Swedish designers Front have created a lamp shade where circular holes in the reflective inner layer project spots of light onto the outer diffuser. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Steven Chilton of London office Marks Barfield Architects has designed a factory-shaped youth centre for the site of the what was once the world’s largest car plant at Longbridge in Birmingham, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Sammy Bikoulis has won the Triflow Future Talents competition to create a kitchen or bathroom tap with this design featuring three stacked coloured blocks. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including an upside-down skyscraper, sculptural shoes and stools made in an explosion. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at Dezeen Mail issue #78 here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art student Eliot Postma has created a conceptual project where pets could be used to harvest human organs for transplants. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Peter Pichler of Bolanzo in Italy has designed a house for a photographer in Forst, Italy, where a large window at one end will be transformed into a projection wall for presentations. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British manufacturer Dyson has expressed disappointment about the lack of protection offered to British designers following the loss of a design rights case against Chinese-owned Vax, who Dyson claims have copied one of their popular models. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen our most popular story was the redesign of McDonald’s interiors in France by Patrick Norguet, which encouraged readers to suggest that they redesign their food next, while a mountain lodge that you can ski over by Fantastic Norway also attracted plenty of attention. The week’s more bizarre offerings included a proposal for a tower built by flying robots and a walkway that looks like a rollercoaster, while a house in Hiroshima by Suppose Design Office provoked discussion on the introverted tendency of Japanese houses to block out the surrounding neighbourhood. We’ve announced more designers and brands taking part in our Christmas shop The Temporium …

Dezeen Wire: industrial designer James Dyson has called on engineers and designers to develop the new ideas needed to revitalise the UK economy – The Guardian Dyson says that only tangible engineering can address issues such as global warming and population growth, stating: “The allure of digital should not distract us from the bigger challenges.” He adds that the government must “focus on investment in ideas,” urging them to support design education and creative businesses. We published the winner of the 2011 James Dyson Award for innovative student engineering projects on Monday and you can see more stories about James Dyson here. </img> </img> &lt…

Dezeenwire: Jay Merrick on the rollout of Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project, creating contemporary holiday homes in the UK - Independent See also: Houses by Peter Zumthor, MVRDV and others for Living Architecture (July 2010) Balancing Barn by MVRDV and Mole Architects (May 2009) </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

Paris designer Lee West has designed an extra-tall teapot that has no handle but instead has a removable cork sleeve to stop you burning your hands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed this office interior in Hong Kong for management consultancy McKinsey & Company. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Richard Hutten has designed a postage stamp that consists of a tiny eight-page book for Dutch postal company Royal TNT Post.(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven student Ricardo Ploemen has designed a conceptual chapel with wavy brick walls, using an AutoCad script to determine the structure of each facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A pedestrian bridge designed by American architect Bernard Tschumi and French firm Hugh Dutton Associés has opened in La Roche-sur-Yon in France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Rachel Boxnboim has cast a ceramic tea service inside fabric moulds. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Dezeen readers were utterly outraged by a range of beer packaged inside dead animals. Apart from those who found it really, really funny… London mayor Boris Johnson launched the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, Herzog & de Meuron unveiled an apartment tower for Beirut and Tokujin Yoshioka filled a 15 metre-long tank with flying feathers. Dezeen launched a new comments system, which readers put to use by drooling over a concrete coffee machine, disputing the feasibility of a clock with batteries for hands and ridiculing the London Gate project. See all our stories from July 2010 » See our review of last year » </img></img&g…

Interview: the UK is a difficult place to "do architecture" thanks to the dominance of the commercial sector and a lack of government investment says British architect David Chipperfield, whose firm is refurbishing Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. (more...) View the full article