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Dezeen is one of many London design businesses supporting Love Japan – a design auction taking place at Clerkenwell Design Week next week to raise money for Shigeru Ban Architects’ evacuation centre project, which is helping people made homeless by the recent earthquake in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a roundup of the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Design Miami/, Priestmangoode and Universal Design Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with John McAslan + Partners, Cinimod Studio and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: a rotating arm deposits spirals of quartz sand on the showroom floor at crystal company Lobmeyr in Vienna this week, thanks to Canadian designer Philippe Malouin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

TDO Architecture have created this doll’s house with ramps linking all floors together. (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 conceptual tower for Taiwan by Romanian firms upgrade.studio, DSBA and Mihai Carciun in the USA would feature observation decks floating up and down each side on helium balloons. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York designer Joe Doucet created this mirror that makes the viewed look as if they're immersed in water as a tribute to victims of Hurricane Sandy. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: London brand Uniform Wares have launched their second collection of watches – come and try one on at our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up at the The Tramshed in east London this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week saw a bicycle that allows you to play records on its wheels ride onto Dezeen Platform (top left). Here’s a roundup of all of our stories about music players, musical instruments and sound installations. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This bench by London studio Raw Edges comprises three different benches that interlock to create a pattern of horizontal and vertical stripes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mark Nixon of London studio CZWG has turned a bridge in Aarhus, Denmark, into a musical instrument by hanging metal pipes from the underside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architecture practice Studio Wet has built a linear house behind a ceramic brick facade and under a single mono-pitched roof in the village of Alosno. Read more View the full article

Swedish architects Visiondivision have created this undulating concrete habitat for crayfish in a stream in Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer has created a new ergonomically-shaped change box with a tilted head for UK cancer charity Maggie's. (more…) View the full article

This school in Porto by Portuguese studio AVA Architects has lime green walls inside and out, and is filled with green furniture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A car service pavilion with a canopy shaped like a giant Pringle potato crisp has been completed in northern Germany by GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architeken (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan design platform Alcova is taking over VDF today to present a programme of interviews with eight international studios whose work could guide us into a better post-pandemic future. Read more View the full article

This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Christina Seewald has designed a collection of cotton garments named Shewee that feature and reference the female urination devices. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Austrian jewellery artist Petra Zimmermann has captured black silk fabric inside acrylic to create the outsized body of her Vanity Vague ring. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this Dezeen movie designer Paul Priestman, one of the judges of the Inside awards, talks about current trends in hotel design. Watch the movie » Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online atwww.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This glass house by Belgian architects Govaert & Vanhoutte has a 50-metre-long wall at the back and an underground swimming pool at the front. (more…) View the full article

Paris 2012: more from Maison & Objet in Paris this week – Japanese studio Torafu Architects present two new versions of their paper containers that can be stretched into bowls or vases for French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers Werner Aisslinger, Mathias Hahn and the [D3] Contest winners live on stage from 12.30 in the The Ramazzotti D3 Lounge at imm Cologne today, as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents series. The interviews will be broadcast on Dezeen at a later date. More info plus the full schedule in our earlier story. See films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York fashion house Threeasfour has unveiled a pair of 3D-printed dresses based on biological forms and textures. (more…) View the full article