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The two-floor extension that Studio Bright has added to this Edwardian family home in Melbourne includes fun features like a theatre-style sitting room and a pool that resembles a Roman bath. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects StudioGreenBlue have inserted concrete bars behind the glazed wall in this family home in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami/Basel has announced that Asif Khan, Mischer’Traxler and Studio Juju are the winners of the 2011 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

House-shaped blocks and courtyards make up this cedar-clad residence in Christchurch, New Zealand, which architect Case Ornsby designed to replace another destroyed in the 2011 earthquake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: The Artisanal collection of tiles by Bert & May is awash in different hues of blue, which nod to the vibrant seas and skies of Spain where the pieces are made by hand. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen we reported from the Inside awards in Barcelona, where a hotel in a former Japanese Army headquarters by NHDRO walked away with the top prize. A glass bedroom on the shoreline in Finland was the most popular story with Dezeen readers this week, along with a sculptural pavilion for viewing wild reindeer by Norwegian architects Snøhetta, described in one comment as “the stuff of fairy tales.” Foster + Partners unveiled an ambitious plan for a transportation hub in the Thames estuary, OMA added a new building to Cornell University’s historic campus in New York and BFLS designed a new college building in Cardiff with a wing-like metal roof. We compil…

The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman’s hat pulled low over his eyes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions at Foster + Partners in London and Archi-Union in Shanghai, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Viaduct, David Morley Architects, HBM and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An installation created by Note Design Studio for Swedish flooring manufacturer Tarkett is formed of stacked geometric shapes held together by lashing straps. Read more View the full article

In this short interview we conducted as part of our Food and Design report for luxury kitchen appliances brand Scholtès, Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk describes her ideal dinner party. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we featured a couple of intriguing aviation stories: our readers were amused and bemused by a transportation concept resembling a floating inflatable cloud, while Foster + Partners completed the world’s first commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Meanwhile, a proposal for an office completely covered in digital adverts drew unfavourable comparisons to sci-fi film Bladerunner and two universities got new digs: a former granary was transformed by Stanton Wiliams into a campus for Central Saint Martins in London and Steven Holl Architects released images of an aluminium clad sports centre for Columbia University that is under construction in Ne…

The Temporium: behind the fourteenth window of our Advent calendar of products on sale at The Temporium are quirky homewares by British design brand All Lovely Stuff, including these salad servers shaped like smiling dinosaurs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The National Organization of Minority Architects has called on the architecture profession to "condemn racism and take an active role in eliminating racial biases" following the death of George Floyd in police custody. Read more View the full article

Dutch architects Concrete designed flattened parasols of rusted steel to shelter the terraced restaurant outside a historic castle in Girona, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Osaka by architects Suga Atelier has a faceted concrete exterior that looks like a rockface. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Kazuya Saito Architects have completed this wood-framed house on a narrow site in Tokyo, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British studio MoreySmith delved into the archives of online fashion retailer Asos for textiles patterns to use while refurbishing the brand's London headquarters (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, and Sruli Recht, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marc Newson, Universal Design Studio, FormFormForm and more.. (more…) View the full article

Interlinking ceramic cups with spouts that allow tea to flow from one to the other are on display in The Changing Room, a former changing space at Dezeen Super Store. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Danish designer Jens Martin Skibsted talks about his bicycle brand Biomega and the future of urban cycling in this previously unseen video filmed by Dezeen during the London Design Festival 2010. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Alison Brooks Architects has built an art-filled black house alongside a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire that has been converted into a dedicated gallery space. Read more View the full article

Slovenian firm OFIS Arhitekti have created an apartment in Ljubljana where rooms are separated by staggered floors rather than walls, with storage areas located underneath. (more…) View the full article

This time last year Álvaro Siza completed an L-shaped auditorium clad in grey tiles and white marble and Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka created a boutique interior for Issey Miyake’s collapsible clothing range. The V&A announced the shortlist for their Exhibition Road development, which was eventually awarded to AL_A, and a house in Switzerland featuring a faceted concrete volume placed on top of a traditional stone building was a hit with our readers. Less popular were a complex mountainside house in Patagonia, which was described by one reader as “the worst kind of self-indulgent, egotistical architectural gymnastics,” and a conceptual algae-producing tower …

Dezeen archive: this week we've delved into our archive to find all the best blow-up buildings, products and installations. See more inflatables in architecture and design » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Perched on the edge of a village by the Sea of Galilee in Israel, this house by Golany Architects features numerous balconies that can be shaded by rolling wooden screens. Read more View the full article