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This prototype house overlooking Lake Maggiore was designed by Nicole Lachelle and Christian Niessen to demonstrate the capabilities of prefabricated wood construction, and features charred-timber facades enclosing a bright-white interior. Read more View the full article

Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer will present a series of lights containing water tinted with food colouring in Milan later this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of this building by AGi architects of Spain and Kuwait, comprising three homes clad in white stucco and three homes in black stone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Muji announced the roll out of Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa's minimal kitchen appliances internationally last week. Here's a look at some of the other products he has created for the design brand, including his iconic CD player (pictured), a suitcase, and even ballet shoes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some images of the Polish pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 designed by Polish studio WWAA Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two European highways with this design featuring a mirrored sphere hovering over the road junction. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Behind the black steel exterior of this home on the Stockholm archipelago, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has created a living space with vaulted ceilings, and bedrooms with one big skylight overhead (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A residential block clad in perforated steel shutters by UK architects Piercy Conner Architects is about to begin construction in Kolkata, India. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This colourful series of public toilets recently completed by Japanese architects Future Studios in Hiroshima have been designed to resemble origami cranes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zurich designer Claudia Meier has completed a hairy hair salon in Zurich, Switzerland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Akio Nakasa has completed two adjacent houses for one family, side by side in Kanagawa, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Masato Sekiya has completed a house for a family in Osaka, Japan, with raw concrete finishes inside and out. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this second movie filmed by Dezeen for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson talks about successful collaborations between architects and garden designers, including The High Line in New York and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London (above). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Kaj watch by New York designer Karim Rashid is now available to buy from Dezeen Watch Store and at our London pop-up shop The Temporium, which is open until Sunday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: these oak and ceramic centrepieces by Eindhoven designers Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders were one of three winning projects at the DMY Awards, announced in Berlin on Saturday. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firm Choi + Shine Architects has created tube-shaped lighting modules that assemble into three-dimensional arrangements using magnets. (more…) View the full article

Designer Dominic Wilcox speaks about his Sounds of Making in East London record that found its way onto a Japanese radio station in this movie we filmed during the Pecha Kucha at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more…) View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Dezeen, Amanda Levete Architects and furniture brand Vitsœ. This is also the last chance to apply for jobs with MAD, Vitra, Arik Levy and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Livaria de Vila is a book shop in São Paulo where the store front is made of revolving bookcases, designed by Brazilian studio Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Swedish brand RVW will present their inaugural collection during the London Design Festival next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This captioned movie by Dezeen features footage from the HD5K charity run in London's Hyde Park, which raised £52,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Read more View the full article

This sofa by Copenhagen designers KiBiSi consists of stacked pillows with fiber concrete buttons. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Square box windows provide seating areas at a hospital unit in Bath, UK, for sick and premature babies. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects SOMAA of Stuttgart have collaborated with Guido Dongus to complete a canteen between two schools in Leonberg, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article