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Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was our most popular architecture story last week so here’s a run-down of all twelve temporary pavilions over the years by architects including SANAA in 2009 (above, photographed by Iwan Baan), Jean Nouvel in 2010 and Frank Gehry in 2008. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Wiley to give away five copies of a book about the construction of the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi. (more...) View the full article

Berlin designers Beta Tank want to make scaffolding pretty. Designer Eyal Burstein has started out by casting a series of scaffolding joints in glazed porcelain with gold and platinum nuts and bolts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brussels firm 51N4E have converted the industrial buildings at this former coal mine in Winterslag, Belgium, into a cultural centre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These twin residences in Riga, Latvia, mirror one another exactly, except that one is clad in timber and the other in blackened steel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Raw concrete and rough limestone clad the interior of a London ice cream parlour designed by branding studio Vonsung. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The roof of this Malibu house is made from the wings of an aeroplane. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Researchers at MIT have invented a low-cost moisture sensor for disposable nappies that uses radio frequencies to alert caregivers when babies need changing. Read more View the full article

Berlin architects J. Mayer H. have completed this airport building in the medieval mountain town of Mestia, Georgia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: London design studio Study O Portable presented a set of giant bangles resembling pineapples in Milan earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a contraceptive device made of a one cent coin, an army of radioactive scarecrows and a nightclub by David Lynch. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </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

Italian design collective Acquacalda have designed a range of kitchen gadgets based on the laws of physics, including this device for pouring exactly equal amounts of wine into four glasses. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian architects Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller have painted streets in Graz, Austria to resemble a running track as part of a regeneration project (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has completed a pavilion in an overgrown field in Almere, Netherlands, with plans that follow existing trails and paths across the site. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architects Tonkin Liu have completed a wind-powered metal flower beside the River Mersey in England. (more…) </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

New York studio Volido have completed the interiors for a fashion store in New York that’s intended to look like a fashion runway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: London designers Toogood presented their second collection of furniture as part of Studio Toogood’s Natura Morta exhibition in Milan last week (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Malene Hartmann Rasmussen created this ceramic installation evoking a surreal forest hut from a Brothers Grimm fairytale for her graduation show earlier this summer. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York designer Karim Rashid has renovated the University of Naples subway station in Naples, Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is proud to be online media partner for Inside: World Festival of Interiors taking place in Barcelona on 2-3 November and our readers can save 25% of the price of entering the festival’s awards programme and visiting the festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Walls, ceilings, furniture and lighting are covered in grey felt at this advertising office in Amsterdam by Dutch interior architects i29. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These funnel-shaped lamps for lighting brand Vertigo Bird are by Bevk Perovic Arhitekti of Slovenia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Mark Noad has revamped the London Underground map to be more geographically accurate. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article