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Milan 2012: these little storage containers by Swedish designers TAF are made of silicone but coloured to look like clay. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new in this week at Dezeen Watch Store is the elegant Vigorelli by Milan designer Matteo Ragni for Italian watch brand Lorenz: (more…) View the full article

Wall panels and shelves in this north London design shop are made from reclaimed floorboards and scaffolding planks. (more…) View the full article

These tree house-like cabins by Thai designer Worapong Manupipatpong are built up around the column of a building rather than over the branches of a tree. (more…) View the full article

In case you missed it yesterday, designer Dominic Wilcox has created an animation that links together some of his illustrations of absurd inventions, including a reverse bungee jump (above). (more…) View the full article

This week the UK government’s new guidelines preventing any curved or glass walls on new schools in a bid to cut costs caused a furious reaction from our readers, who called the idea “idiotic”, a “very false economy” and “an absolute insult to the architecture, design and construction industry.” (more…) View the full article

Made up of a series of interconnecting boxes, this house surrounded by car parks in Japan is the latest addition to our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House I » View the full article

A conceptual space station that was conceived in the 1920s inspired the spiralling structure of this culture and technology centre in Slovenia. (more...) View the full article

This concrete photography studio in São Paulo by Studio MK27 features two folding walls that allow the garden to be included in shoots (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Rooms and surfaces are generated from a complex web of hexagons at this contemporary arts centre in Córdoba, Spain, by Madrid office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (photography is by Roland Halbe). (more...) View the full article

This week Japanese firm SANAA became the latest famous architects to complete a building at the Vitra Campus. Read on for more highlights from the week and Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

A team of Australian architects has won a speculative competition to design a new residence for the Australian Prime Minister. (more...) View the full article

Korean designer Boyeon Oh has designed a set of paper memos to look like a fresh packet of salad. (more...) View the full article

Children would swing beneath a giant colourful hot-air balloon in this proposal for a sculpture park in Queens by Australian architect Jesse Lockhart-Krause. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with the Royal College of Art, FR-EE Fernando Romero Enterprise and Fredrikson Stallard, whose King Bonk armchair design is pictured. (more...) View the full article

News: the brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, has been safeguarded from demolition after being declared a Grade II-listed historic building by the UK government. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Thai tile brand COTTO has launched its latest range of faux marble and straited tiles first unveiled at the Cersaie ceramics show in Bologna, Italy, in September. (more...) View the full article

Curved walls made from sun-bleached timber slats screen the exterior of this sports centre by Explorations Architecture in the French commune of Arpajon, near Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The shingle-clad upper storeys of this house on the outskirts of the Austrian city of Linz by Vienna practice Destilat are rotated to create a cantilevered overhang above the entrance (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Children can clamber onto the curved roof of this community library in China, which architects John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere designed for an earthquake-damaged village in Yunnan Province (+ slideshow) (more...) View the full article

News: small business owners in the UK's architecture sector have more faith in their employees and are more concerned about the ethical behaviour of their suppliers than in any other industry, according to research published today. (more...) View the full article

Interview: millionaire businesswoman Zita Cobb has used cutting-edge architecture and design to revitalise the economy of remote Fogo Island in Newfoundland, the place of her birth. She told Dezeen how she got international designers to work with local craftspeople "to preserve some of the things we were afraid of losing" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Food design studio Bompas & Parr has created luminescent ice cream so cinema-goers can see their snacks in the dark. (more...) View the full article

Letters from the Hollywood sign appeared to have toppled from their position in the Santa Monica Mountains, as part of an installation by London studio Ordinary Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: work has begun on a Greek Orthodox Church designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to replace a building that was destroyed by the collapse of New York's World Trade Center buildings on 9/11. (more...) View the full article