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Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, Milan designer Denis Guidone talks about two of the watch prototypes he presented at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform: Sometimes, which is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Christmas shop The Temporium, and Remember, which is due to be released next year. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Frank Gehry will teach an architecture and design course for online education platform MasterClass, sharing his creative process and offering critique on student work. Read more View the full article

This week we introduced slideshows of larger images to the top of selected stories on Dezeen – see the first few examples here, including a museum of handmade paper, stripped-out factories awaiting renovation and a skatepark in Calais. BIG won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake and OMA broke ground on their performing arts centre for Taipei which “looks like something bad has happened” according to our readers. American musician Moby started a personal blog documenting architecture in Los Angeles and we reported on artist Damien Hirst’s proposals to build…

This range of colourful vessels by Swiss designer 
Dimitri Bähler is intended to "question the concept of usefulness in our homes". Read more View the full article

Architects CZWG have completed a bronzed, hexagonal library that leans across a dock in south London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argentinean architect Alejandro Sticotti has elevated a wood-clad box above the glazed kitchen and dining room of his family's holiday home on the coast of Uruguay. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven has used red glazed bricks to make a new Antwerp fire station stand out. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this third movie in our series of interviews with OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas he talks about his new book Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… written in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In order to create "less but better" garments, new London-based fashion brand Per/Se will release only one piece of clothing every two months (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: check out the future of hotel design in the Sleepotel conceptual hotel installation at The Sleep Event in London later this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week sports brand Nike launched a range of knitted running shoes, car brand Mini unveiled a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman and RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi put his award-winning folding plug graduation project into production. A website called Arch Leaks was launched to revel the secrets of architecture firms and some users immediately set about creating and rating fake practices, while open-source designs for spectacle frames cut from 18mm plywood stirred up an amusing debate among our readers. ”We are currently working on the next iteration of WikiGlasses – a range of 18mm ply open-source contact lenses,” comments the designer. Meanwhile construction began…

Comments update: New York's luxury construction boom continues to spark debate, as readers react to Elizabeth Diller's warning that supertall towers are damaging the city. (more…) View the full article

Steps built into the kitchen counter lead up to a suspended staircase in this Melbourne house by Australian architects Edwards Moore. (more…) View the full article

Online retail giant Amazon is celebrating the birthday of legendary designer Charles Eames with a pinboard that collects together replicas of his designs sold on the site. (more…) View the full article

From residential interiors to hotels and restaurants, terrazzo has been widely used by architects and designers in recent years. Our updated terrazzo Pinterest board includes the latest projects published on Dezeen that feature the design. Read more View the full article

Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has commissioned seven architects including Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and Snøhetta to reimagine the Series 7 chair by Danish Modernist Arne Jacobsen, to celebrate the iconic product's 60th anniversary. (more…) View the full article

Manhattan Loft Gardens is a 143-metre-high tower with two cantilevers designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill that overlooks London's 2012 Olympic Games park. Read more

Giles Miller's London design studio has positioned a target of reflective pixels in front of a medieval gate for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week, which kicks off in London today (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architects, designers and industry figures including Patrik Schumacher, Michael Young, Alison Brooks and Lee Broom joined Dezeen at London's Ace Hotel last week to celebrate the launch of the inaugural Dezeen Hot List. Read more View the full article

As part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration, we've rounded up some of the best furniture, homeware and lighting designs from the Offsite Online: Selects group show. Read more View the full article

With the 58th Venice Art Biennale now underway, design reporter Natashah Hitti picks out the exhibitions, pavilions and installations that are most likely to appeal to architects and designers, from giant hands to an artificial beach. Read more

This week's issue of Dezeen Mail leads with a 3D-printed cast for fractured bones and includes all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 159 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

We've selected five of the best architecture and design jobs available from Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions with co-working company WeWork in New York and architect CZWG in London. Read more View the full article

News: Solveiga Pakstaite, an industrial design student from Brunel University, has won the UK James Dyson award with Bump Mark – an expiry label that decays to tell you when food is no longer safe to eat (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week Richard Meier & Partners unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City, SOM won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago released a report that revealed a record number of skyscrapers were completed in 2011. Meanwhile Neri&Hu delighted readers with their latest house in Singapore and our most popular story showed visuals of a triangular house to be constructed on a rocky harbourside plot in Sweden. imm cologne is well underway in Germany and you can see all our stories about it here, including a lamp covered in ap…