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A baby-pink kitchen and a colourful patchwork carpet help revive the interior of this formerly lacklustre 1960s apartment in Bilbao, Spain, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Azab. Read more View the full article

Pavel Míček Architects has built a concrete holiday home in the Beskydy Mountains of eastern Europe. Read more View the full article

Ukrainian design brand Faina looked to ancient depictions of the female form when creating this "cloud-like" armchair, which takes cues from archaeological finds. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Imbue Design has designed this low-lying off-grid residence on a desolate, grassy lot in Idaho for a family to "distance themselves from social stresses". Read more View the full article

Readers are debating Weston Williamson + Partners' plans for a social-distancing workplace and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Scottish artist Geoff Mann of Studio*Mrmann has created a movie where an argument between unseen characters is represented as ripples that distort objects across a dining table. Watch the movie » See all our movies » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten have completed an art museum in Nanjing, China, with a series of narrow rectangular slits across the facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: Cologne designer Eric Degenhardt rounded off the second day of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, discussing his move from architecture to design and his love of Castiglioni’s Primate kneeling stool. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs, including positions with Studio Greg Lynn in Vienna, architects UNStudio in Shanghai and Amsterdam, furniture brand Vitsoe and designers Cinimod Studio in London. This is also the last chance to apply to work with architects Studio Octopi, Established & Sons and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Jeroen van Laarhoven of Tjep. has created a collection of conjoined chairs. (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

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto will present this series of brass bowls for Swedish brand Skultuna at Stockholm Furniture Fair next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio Sieger Design present this flat square tap for design brand Dornbracht at ISH 2011 in Frankfurt, which opens tomorrow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Sybarite have designed a modular display system for shoe brand FitFlop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Matali Crasset has created this Paris hotel in collaboration with Patrick Elouarghi and Philippe Chatelet, where visitors check-in, order food and exchange tips on the city with other guests via the hotel’s online system and a plethora of screens throughout the building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Barcelona school by architects Arqtel Barcelona has an exposed concrete structure with painted vertical bands of citrus colours. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits – Management Today See the full list of products on the Guardian Datablog » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Indonesian architects Budi Pradono have designed a leaning house for Jakarta with a tree growing inside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tree-like lampposts emerge from a pool of pebbles in front of a metal-clad vehicle research institute in Spain by architects ACXT. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: 11 design teams including OMA, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw Architects and HOK have been shortlisted in a competition to redesign the public spaces at Chicago’s Navy Pier development. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Workshops clad in timber batons sit atop this children’s centre outside Paris by French architects SOA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week a boat-shaped apartment washed up on the roof of the Southbank Centre in London, dRMM completed a shimmering golden wedding chapel in the British seaside town of Blackpool and we showed images of Renzo Piano’s new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Our most popular stories featured a precariously cantilevered museum in the Alps and a playground pavilion in Copenhagen with funhouse mirrors covering its gabled ends. Meanwhile fuseproject unveiled a tablet version of their One Laptop Per Child project, Nendo previewed the new work they’ll show during Maison & Objet in Paris next week and Konstantin Grcic unveiled his new school chair to …

This week on Dezeen we published an interview with industrial designer Marc Newson about his new camera for Pentax. You can also watch highlights from Fabio Novembre’s talk about his work and inspirations plus changes in the Italian design scene on Dezeen Screen. Our most popular and most controversial story this week featured Daniel Libeskind’s family of curved towers in Singapore and readers were angered by a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China that they claim steals ideas from all of their favourite architects Japanese designers Nendo completed a menswear store that imitates an office while Norwegian architects Eriksen Skajaa created an …

A mobile theatre will visit Clerkenwell Design Week in London this May, inspired by a miniature concert hall above a coal-shed that used to be in the area in the seventeenth century. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was overshadowed this week by news that one designer had been arrested while installing his project in the city and accused of “planting false bombs”, which our readers labelled a “titanic over-reaction” and indicative of the “hysteria and squareness of NY authorities”. (more…) View the full article