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We’ve teamed up with designers Cibicworkshop to give away five construction games based on iconic buildings by renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plywood shingles create fish scales on the walls of a clothes store at Bondi Beach, Sydney, while spherical lights hang from the ceiling inside fishermen’s nets. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Australian label Matilda presented products and furniture by 30 designers including a timber and aluminium pendant light by Kate Stokes (above) at designjunction last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro‘s series of talks on Italian design at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will chair a discussion with Milan designer Fabio Novembre on 29 November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A steel staircase outside this renovated summerhouse in western Spain spirals up onto a roof terrace with a view of the sea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week we featured a set of chairs that join together like shopping trolleys to encourage park visitors to tidy them away when they leave (top right) so we thought we’d look ahead to warmer weather by grouping together all our stories about outdoor furniture. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan designers Spalvieri / Del Ciotto have created a range of calculators, clocks, torches and radios that are made of corn starch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the popularity of the bookcase without shelves that we published earlier this week (above, top right) here’s a roundup of the ten most-clicked stories from Dezeen featuring more clever ways to display your reading material. (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The bottom floor and courtyard of this house in Melbourne by Studio Architecture Gestalten are sunk underground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen is in Singapore for the fifth annual World Architecture Festival and today the winning designs in 12 of the project categories have been announced, including a library clad with firewood, a house covered in plants and three projects in Singapore. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Kerry Hill won the award in the housing category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for an apartment building in Singapore and in this interview we filmed he discusses how he believes the nation is developing an “emerging approach to design” rather than an architectural style. (more…) View the full article

Product news: items of furniture in this collection by Daisuke Motogi Architecture are shaped so that they can still be used when flipped upside-down (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma built this temporary hut using cedar, ETFE plastic and magnets to pay tribute to a humble dwelling chronicled by Japanese author Kamono Chomei over 800 years ago (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: London architecture collective Softkill Design has joined the race to build the world's first 3D printed house, announcing plans for a plastic dwelling that could be built off-site in three weeks and assembled in a single day. (more...) View the full article

Haute couture garments by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen will be displayed at an exhibition of her work in Calais, France, from June. (more...) View the full article

Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has created squishy lamps made out of rubber. (more...) View the full article

This movie documents the manufacture of Zaha Hadid's ridged metallic shoes for United Nude and shows someone walking in them (a bit). (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch construction company Heijmans has developed a prefabricated starter home for young professionals that can be installed on vacant city-centre sites in under 24 hours (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Next in our series of movies about 3D printing we talk to Bart Van der Scheuren, vice president of Belgian additive manufacturing company Materialise, who explains how the three main 3D printing technologies work. (more...) View the full article

This volcano museum in western Hungary features walls of dark concrete and Corten steel designed by Budapest studio Foldes Architects to reference the colours of volcanic rock and lava (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for transport/ product designers at Priestmangoode, whose concept for high-speed trains that would transfer passengers while still moving is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A facade of translucent plastic pillows can be pumped up to alter lighting and temperature inside this domed tropical greenhouse in Aarhus by Danish firm C. F. Møller (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An all-encompassing timber lattice creates a sheltered gallery around the perimeter of this university library in the South American country of French Guiana by Paris studio RH+ Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a conductive rug that can detect movement and call for help if someone has fallen over has been developed by German firm Future-Shape. (more...) View the full article