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A spiky kindergarten and a bulbous sports centre with rooftop funnels are included in this conceptual community by architecture students at Lund University, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest batch of designers and brands to be added to the line up for our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium include WRAP magazine (above), whose large format pull-out illustrations are perfect for wrapping presents. There are also pencils in the shape of crucifixes, lace-up leather grips for handlebars, deluxe paper planes and much more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this animation by Studio Yog and LOBOTOMY was drawn on the isometric grid of XYZ Note, a sketchbook designed by Seoul studio KAMKAM. Each drawing in the animation responds to the rhythm of the music. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we introduced slideshows of larger images to the top of selected stories on Dezeen – see the first few examples here, including a museum of handmade paper, stripped-out factories awaiting renovation and a skatepark in Calais. BIG won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake and OMA broke ground on their performing arts centre for Taipei which “looks like something bad has happened” according to our readers. American musician Moby started a personal blog documenting architecture in Los Angeles and we reported on artist Damien Hirst’s proposals to build…

Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. The whole Dezeen team was on holiday (there were fewer of us back then) so we featured projects from the first book by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Twenty-First Century Design, including Marcel Wanders’ Airborne Snotty Vases, and the Millau Viaduct by Foster & Partners. See all our stories from March 2007 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a building in Buenos Aires that could either be used for offices or apartments. (more…) View the full article

Wooden shutters fold, tilt and slide open to let in the sun and keep out the burglars at this weekend cabin in New Zealand by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan. (more…) View the full article

Square openings form a grid of tiny windows through the screens of this clinic for hair restoration and removal in Tokyo by Japanese studio KORI architecture office (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A perforated metal box encases the concrete visitor centre for the Atapuerca archaeological site in northern Spain by architects a3gm and Mata y asociados (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This pop-up Starbucks coffee shop in Tokyo by Japanese design studio Nendo was designed like a library, where customers ordered drinks by taking books to the counter (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: Studio Makkink & Bey built a house of scaffolding and stairs to represent the transient, roaming lifestyle of the future as their contribution to the Future Primitives series at last month’s Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium. (more…) View the full article

A looping bridge by three Bosnian product design students has been completed outside the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has hidden a bamboo-framed conference centre behind a fortified stone wall in the countryside outside Hanoi (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest Dezeen Mail newsletter features a pen that draws 3D objects, Google's Tel Aviv offices and a blackened-timber Melbourne residence (above) plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 139 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: the Rio de Janeiro stadium that was set to host athletics tournaments during the 2016 Olympics has been closed indefinitely due to structural problems. (more...) View the full article

News: crafts will no longer be considered part of the creative industries under proposals published by the UK government this week. (more...) View the full article

Even though 3D-printed haute couture garments have been gracing the catwalks, the real breakthroughs in printed clothing will come from more practical and subversive quarters, reports Claire Barrett in this article for our one-off magazine Print Shift. (more...) View the full article

News: London architect Zaha Hadid has unveiled plans for an 11-storey apartment block that will be constructed beside New York's popular High Line park. (more...) View the full article

Raw concrete and timber boxes create rooms inside these gabled blocks, added to a hotel on a vineyard in rural Portugal by architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Station and Roman watches based on iconic clocks by Danish modernist designer Arne Jacobsen are now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position as head of the Product Design Masters programme at ECAL, where past students' work includes Thibault Penven's folding boat (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This image by German photographer Menno Aden offers a view down from the ceiling onto an empty pharmaceutical laboratory. (more...) View the full article

This corrugated paper cabin designed by architect Mattias Lind is printed to resemble black marble on one side of the folds and white marble on the other so it looks different from either side (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Google has announced it is poised to acquire domestic technology firm Nest for $3.2 billion, a move that will increase the tech giant's presence in the home. (more...) View the full article

German studio Tammo Prinz Architects has developed a concept for a residential skyscraper built from a stack of modular cubes and dodecahedrons (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article