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The modernist Ben Rose House in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Philip Johnson's Glass House informed this pool house designed by Canadian studio Maurice Martel Architecte. Read more View the full article

Cologne 2011: London studio Doshi Levien present this child’s rocking horse at imm cologne in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polished terrazzo fixtures and mirrored surfaces offset the exposed pipework and crumbling walls inside this minimal florist in Kiev designed by Rina Lovko Studio. Read more View the full article

Grey plaster walls contrast with tan-coloured window frames at a hillside holiday house in Střekov by Czech architects 3+1 Architekti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Weathered cedar covers this Vermont house, which local studio Birdseye Design built into a grassy slope to take cues from nearby barns. Read more View the full article

A tubular steel slide plummets through four storeys inside this penthouse apartment in New York by architect David Hotson (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay has transferred folk embroidery patterns onto strips for a punched card music box, which plays the traditional motifs as sounds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has used richly-hued paintwork to bring life to the previously charred interior of this apartment in Barcelona. Read more View the full article

Following the popularity of our story about MVRDV’s Balancing Barn holiday home with a 15 meter cantilever (above, bottom left) we’ve compiled our most-read stories about cantilevered buildings for this month’s top ten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These reconstituted-stone sails belong to the second museum we’ve featured this month dedicated to ill-fated liner the RMS Titanic, following one shaped like four hulls. (more…) View the full article

Round windows in black and red are plugged into the facade of this wood-clad house by Australian firm Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects that sits on the outskirts of Melbourne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We have teamed up with the guys over at Clients from Hell blog to give away five copies of their Clients From Hell book, a collection of horror stories from the design industry. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ Future Trends Survey for September points to a drop in the number of architectural practices anticipating increased demand for their services. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

MAP Studios of Madrid have designed this table with an integrated mirror, vase and candle sticks. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Bill Moggridge, who designed the world’s first laptop computer (above), has won the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Studio 7.5 has designed the Cosm chair for Herman Miller with an automatic tilting mechanism that gives users "a feeling of weightlessness". Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with designers Tom Dixon and Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Marcel Wanders, Buro Ole Scheeren and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architects including Foster + Partners, Aedas and BDP have accused the UK Conservative Party of exaggerating the fees architects were paid under the previous government’s Building Schools for the Future scheme - Building Design </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Lace, bows, flowers and pearls feature in the Candelaria collection by Viennese fashion house Narbon, in a celebration of maximalist femininity. Read more View the full article

Dutch textile designer Simone Post has adapted a traditional wax printing technique to create a colourful fabric that combines 3D geometries with bubble patterns. Read more

English architect John Glew has introduced new fenestration and a zinc-clad extension to this mock-Georgian house in north London, squeezing the new structure into a wedge of land between the house and its neighbour. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains that the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond for next year’s Olympics in London, has been an easy target for jokes but that it demonstrates Britain’s manufacturing capabilities and says it “may even effect buildings of the future just as the Eiffel Tower and the Crystal Palace did” - The Guardian </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Studio Weave, Heatherwick Studio and Waugh Thistleton Architects, one of the studios pioneering the construction of timber-framed high-rises (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Hawkins\Brown Architects, UNStudio, RIBA and more... (more…) View the full article

The coronavirus pandemic will force design brands to manufacture more products locally, hold less stock and be less reliant on physical stores, according to designer Tom Dixon. Read more View the full article

Russian studio Wowhaus has transformed a four-lane highway beside Moscow's Moskva River into the city's first year-round park, featuring rows of trees, fountains, cafes and artists' studios (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article