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Korean designers Joon&Jung have hand-crafted this set of speakers by strapping punctuated ceramic cubes onto a stack of twigs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This farmhouse in Hokkaido by Japanese studio Hiroshi Horio Architects has a pointed observation deck where residents dry herbs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Four courtyards are cut into the asymmetrical white roof of this Portuguese house by ARX Portugal Arquitectos and Portuguese architect Stefano Riva. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Torafu Architects have designed a lidded bowl that can be split into two parts and mounted on the wall as shelves. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This top-heavy house by Japanese architect Kota Mizuishi overlooks a river in west Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom hotel by French architect Jean Nouvel has won the “New Build Hotel” category at The European Hotel Design Awards 2011. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A waterfall is one of the features of this cylindrical boathouse in Austin by Texan architects Bercy Chen Studio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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…

Here are the latest visuals by architects OMA of their designs for a performing arts centre that broke ground today in Taipei, Taiwan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This square building with a hollow centre appears to balance over a cluster of hills, creating offices and a central plaza for a business incubator unit in a rural Portuguese technology park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Dutch studio Rocha Tombal have completed a primary school in The Hague that winds around its site like a crocodile. (more…) View the full article

These London townhouses by architects Piercy & Company have chunky banisters formed from thickly layered birch plywood. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Thomas Heatherwick has designed a distillery and visitor centre for gin brand Bombay Sapphire at an abandoned mill in Hampshire, England. (more…) View the full article

Cardboard tubes divide up an old factory in Melbourne to create new gentlemen’s outfitters Epatant, founded by Dennis Paphitis and Lachlan Smeeton. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has created a trestle table and bench with timber parts held in tension by sheets of bowed steel. (more…) View the full article

Following the sad news that experimental architect and artist Lebbeus Woods passed away last week, here’s a look back at some of his early drawing projects from the 1980s. (more…) View the full article

News: six international teams, including Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA and Renzo Piano, have been shortlisted to design a new visual culture museum in Hong Kong’s new West Kowloon Cultural District, while two Hong Kong-born architects have been chosen to design a centre for Chinese opera (above) in the same area. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Saturn is the first digital watch by Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro to feature at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Windows are hidden behind timber screens that fold back in all different directions at this family house in Israel by architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a London cycling organisation has come up with a concept for a lorry with no blindspot to reduce the number of cyclists killed in collisions. (more...) View the full article

Walls appear to be peeling back from the facade of this house by Chinese office AZL Architects, one of 24 architect-designed buildings underway in a forest near Nanjing, China. (more...) View the full article

Spanish studio Nook Architects stripped out false ceilings and dividing walls to transform two next-door apartments in Barcelona's gothic quarter into a pair of bright and spacious homes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: Sam Jacob ponders the paradox of solid, concrete Brutalist architecture printed onto soft furnishings in this week's column. (more...) View the full article

Business news: designer Marcel Wanders and entrepreneur Casper Vissers have regained complete control of Dutch design brand Moooi, buying the remaining 25 per cent of the company they co-founded in 2001. (more…) View the full article

Portuguese artist Ana Rita Antonio has designed an installation based on fourteen different ways to replace a table leg by piling up other objects in its place. (more...) View the full article