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Set designer Shona Heath's exhibition design for the Tim Walker exhibition at London's V&A reflects the many outlandish sets she has created for the fashion photographer. Read more View the full article

Stockholm-based designer Julia Olanders has used construction materials that are usually hidden in buildings to create a series of decorative vases for her Betweenness project. Read more View the full article

Designers Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux, who collaborate as Messgewand, have created a collection of surreal furniture made from collages of found objects. Read more View the full article

Mexico City's Rojkind Arquitectos has designed a weekend home near a lakeside town in Mexico to comprise five prismatic volumes covered in dark stone. Read more View the full article

Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which architect Peter Belsey has designed to look "immensely heavy". Read more View the full article

Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique has created an open-source, retro-futuristic face shield shaped like a fish bowl to protect wearers against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Indonesian office Studio Eva Natasa has used teak wood to create the "elegant and versatile" L04 table, which is intended for both working and dining. Read more View the full article

London designer Aimée Furnival of A Studio for Design has created a series of greetings cards that fold out into miniature gardens, in which the recipient can grow cress. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival will be extended for an additional 10 days until 10 July due to demand from brands that want to participate. Read more View the full article

We’ve got together with publisher Laurence King to give away five copies of 1000 New Designs 2 by Jeniffer Hudson. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris designer Guillaume Delvigne has created a lamp with a single bulb dangling on the end of a flex, which is draped over a stand. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan have completed an extension to the Modern Art Oxford by transforming a delivery yard into a gallery space and café. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Work by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is to be shown at the Château de Versailles in France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

David Mikhail Architects won the New London Architecture‘s Don’t Move, Improve! competition with this project extending a London terraced house by just one metre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This faceted stone building by Hungarian architects Építész Stúdió contains a concert hall and conference centre in Pécs, Hungary. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin: Leipzig designer Yi-Cong Lu presented these collapsible lamps at DMY Berlin earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Frank Gehry‘s residential skyscraper, New York by Gehry, is nearly complete. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ron Arad‘s cylindrical cinema screen made of 5600 silicon rods opens at the Roundhouse in London today. Watch a time-lapse movie of the installation’s construction on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week we featured a winery in the south of France and a see-through church in Belgium that are both made of Corten, so here’s a roundup of all our stories featuring weathered steel. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architect Alison Brooks has won a competition to design a new quadrangle for a college at the University of Oxford. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

March is up next in our roundup of the most popular stories from each month in 2011, with a sixteenth-century house in Girona converted into two contemporary holiday apartments at number one. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago we were the first to publish images of an apartment designed for Kanye West by architect Claudio Silvestrin, following a chance encounter with the musician during Design Miami 2006. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and actress Kate Winslet were the latest stars to design toys for furniture store Habitat, while Brazilian designers the Campanas revealed designs for chairs made from Disney cuddly toys. We featured photographs of a rather dark pavilion by architect David Adjaye, as well as a more colourful one by Zaha Hadid at furniture fair imm cologne, and we offered our congratulations to Thomas Heatherwick and Maisie Rowe on the birth of their twins. </img&gt…

As interest in space travel grows, NASA has created graphics advertising holidays on planets that could potentially support life. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: overlapping openings in the walls and ceilings of this Tokyo house by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office create dozens of views between rooms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story about the much awaited western concourse at King’s Cross station by John McAslan & Partners, we decided to group together all of our stories about stations for this week’s archive feature. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article