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The third Alessi watch to feature in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale is Jak by Karim Rashid. The digital watch comes in a variety of colours and is now only £50.40 (UK and EU) or £42 (rest of the world). Get yours here » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Here are 10 of the best horror films and shows where the haunted house plays a starring role to watch while you're trapped at home during lockdown – if you dare. Read more View the full article

First the connected home; now the connected garden: designer Yves Behar has created products that monitor soil conditions and automatically water plants when they get thirsty (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: Patrizia Moroso, the creative director of Italian design brand Moroso, spoke to Dezeen about her relationship with London and designers including Ron Arad, Ross Lovegrove and Tord Boontje, in this interview conducted to coincide with the Moroso loves London exhibition (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: six buildings have been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, including the London Olympic Stadium by Populous (above) and two projects by OMA. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an architect/designer at Design, Bitches in Los Angeles, whose recent projects include Button Mash – an Asian-fusion restaurant and video arcade (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Metal pipes and lightbulbs previously used on squid fishing boats are used to make a sculptural light that hangs from a double-height space in the centre of this Aesop skincare store in Kyoto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Young designers discussed the pros and cons of producing their own products and building their own brands at this year’s Blickfang designworkshop, led by Stefan Scholten of design duo Scholten & Baijings (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model of a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts of survivors (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: none of the elongated rooms inside this curvy apartment block in Osaka are more than two metres wide. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

International firm SWA Group has been selected to redesign Futian District in Shenzhen, an area that’s larger than Manhattan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Mars One, the Dutch company that held an open call for volunteer astronauts to settle on Mars, has gone into liquidation. Read more

Milan 2014: London design duo Glithero will present a range of textiles that have been woven using organ punch cards in Milan next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

As we count down the days to enter Dezeen Awards, interiors expert judge Michelle Ogundehin says she is looking forward to submissions that combine originality with sustainability. Read more View the full article

MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a top-heavy building for the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, which cantilevers out over a public courtyard and a series of elevated pathways (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The steeply pitched roof of this shingled chapel by Bernardo Bader Architects provides a dramatic worship space, which narrows towards a small window facing a grassy hillside in western Austria. Read more View the full article

The board of directors of the School of Architecture at Taliesin, which was established by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1932, has voted to reverse its decision to close after a public outcry allowed it to secure additional funding. Read more View the full article

Residents can step through holes in the walls inside this house in Japan by architects Atelier Cube (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers can't decide whether the Hoxton Press towers, by Karakusevic Carson Architects and David Chipperfield Architects, look new or retro.

Kanye West‘s first short film was shown on seven cinema screens surrounding the audience inside a pyramid designed by architects OMA at the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. (more…) View the full article

London architect Carl Turner has developed a design for a prefabricated floating house and has made the plans available to download via an open-source architecture website. (more…) View the full article

News: a Chinese company plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in just seven months using pre-fabricated components slotted together like a Meccano toy. (more…) View the full article

Visualisation artist Forbes Massie has exhibited a series of architectural renderings with a painterly rather than photorealistic aesthetic at the Protein Studios gallery in east London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Engineers for web giant Google can lounge on sofas or draw on the walls at their new London headquarters by designers Penson. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article