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Designers Big-Game of Lausanne have made a series of mirrors from car windscreens. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: non-profit organization Architecture for Humanity are calling for help to support local Japanese professionals in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Sendai last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brussels firm 51N4E have converted the industrial buildings at this former coal mine in Winterslag, Belgium, into a cultural centre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bicycles are displayed in backlit boxes at this Barcelona bike store designed by architect Joan Sandoval. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors can climb a staircase over the roof of this spiralling community centre in Lille by French architects Colboc Franzen & Associés. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Recent works by Spanish studio Herreros Arquitectos are on show at the ROM Gallery in Oslo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize for the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and David Chipperfield was announced as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. Meanwhile, Yves Béhar designed an office chair inspired by suspension bridges, Patrick Hyland produced a concept phone powered by body heat and IKEA released a cookbook featuring photographs of ingredients laid out in patterns. Sou Fujimoto Architects completed a stacked apartment building in Tokyo, a minimal renovation of a 100-year-old parish impressed our readers and Chyutin Architects won a competition to design a controversial museum in Jerusalem. We featu…

Dezeen Screen: in this interview from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka talks about the firm’s work in Arab countries. Watch the movie » Above: photograph is by Blommers Schumm </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside awards: as part of our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Russel and Hannah Plumb of JamesPlumb about their interior for outfitters Hostem, which won the retail category. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: designer Jólan van der Wiel has sent us this movie of his machine for shaping stools using gravity and magnets, on display as part of the [D3] Contest for young designers at imm cologne in Germany this week. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The triangular roof above the cafe-bar at Warwick University’s renovated student union features a tessellated underside of polished copper. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story about a gallery pushing up from beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt last week, here’s a roundup of all our stories about underground architecture on Dezeen. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction has begun on the new headquarters for fashion brand G-Star RAW in Amsterdam, designed by architects OMA. (more…) View the full article

A kilometre-long cable car designed by British architects Wilkinson Eyre has opened today over the River Thames in London. (more…) View the full article

This time last year we featured an array of weird and wonderful houses, including a steel-plated bunker with a drawbridge (above) and a house with wonky legs and a rooftop swimming pool (below). (more…) View the full article

Industrial designer Marc Newson has famously tried his hand at designing pretty much everything. In the second of five movies Dezeen filmed to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, Newson talks us though a range of his projects that takes in mobile phones, knives, beds, clothes, packaging and a surf board so slick it was sold as a sculpture. (more…) View the full article

Visitors can play in the rain without getting wet in this installation by interactive designers rAndom International at the Barbican in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The minimal interior of this collaborative office was converted from a coffee-roasting warehouse by Japanese studio TT Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: ten metres of electrical cord are coiled around to form the shade of this pendant lamp by Italian designer Nicolò Barlera. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio MDS has completed a countryside retreat with south-facing rooms in the foothills of the Yatsugatake mountains (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Interview: earlier today, London studio Softkill Design unveiled plans for a 3D printed house. We spoke to Softkill's Gilles Retsin about the viability of printed architecture and how he intends to print a plastic dwelling in just three weeks. "When we started this research, it was a kind of science fiction," he says. "It's not actually that far off any more." (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: London design duo Raw Edges came up with a bookcase shaped like a weaving loom to display novels by young British writers. (more...) View the full article

A pitched roof and six walls appear as a single block of concrete around these two residences in Geneva by Swiss architects clavienrossier (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the shortlist of interior design projects for this year's Inside Awards has been announced, with Zaha Hadid's undulating cultural centre in Azerbaijan, a hotel filled with gullies and waterfalls, and Google's headquarters in Japan all making the list (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Northmodern 2015: Danish designer Troels Flensted has produced a collection of resin tabletops patterned with flecks of brightly coloured pigment (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article