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Barcelona architect Anna Noguera has converted a sixteenth-century house in Girona into two contemporary holiday apartments. (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

Dezeen Watch Store: the 150 Series, the latest design by best-selling British watch brand Uniform Wares, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Swedish furniture company Massproductions present this simple steel-framed armchair at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Whatswhat Collective have designed a pleated lamp shade that changes shape when its drawstrings are pulled. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Holmenkollen ski jump by JDS Architects has opened in Oslo, Norway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rectangular voids are carved out of the stone facade of this monolithic pavilion in the Netherlands by Rotterdam-based Shift architecture urbanism. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images of the VIP lounge located inside the Dutch Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Chinese firm Cloud-9. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another triangulated outcrop: Technische Universität Dresden students Philip Modest Schambelan and Anton Fromm have designed a hotel for mountain bikers for the edge of a cliff in Pregasina, Italy. (more…) </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

Edinburgh studio Malcolm Fraser Architects have completed this wooden treehouse housing an artists’ studio in Glen Nevis, Scotland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week the first of the London Design Festival events opened, including John Pawson’s installation at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bouroullec brothers’ Textile Field at the Victoria & Albert museum. Dezeen Space opens tomorrow at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN. Dyson launched a new heater that takes its cue from their Air-Multiplier bladeless fans and Icon magazine celebrated its 100th issue. A handy hotel for napping at airports popped up in Moscow, the RIBA unveiled the shorlisted entries for their Pylon of the Future competition and we rounded up our stories featuring Corten steel, including a see-through church. A film showing the const…

Sarah Wigglesworth Architects designed this school in Wakefield, England, using red bricks and industrial building shapes that reflect the surrounding vernacular. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A triangulated glass and steel restaurant sits beside a river in a remote forested gorge in southern China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A drawbridge-like flap lowers from the steel-plated facade of this Melbourne bunker to reveal a bedroom window. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pointed cantilevers project above an office block that is sandwiched between a corporate complex and a slum in Mumbai (photographs by Edmund Sumner). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK designer Rupert McKelvie has assembled a table using thousands of pieces from jigsaw puzzles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this previously unpublished video interview by Dezeen, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic talks about Design Real, the exhibition he curated at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2009. More information about the exhibition in our story published at the time. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have got together with J Mayer H Architects to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Arium – Weather and Architecture, edited by Jurgen Mayer H and Neeraj Bhatia. (more…) </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

Garments hang from the recycled parts of four bicycles inside a sustainable clothing shop in Stuttgart. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his series of the Rolex Learning Centre in Switzerland, designed by Japanese architects SANAA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Strips of perforated fabric are tacked onto the facades of this house near Amsterdam by Dutch architects CC-Studio and Studio TX. (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

Here’s another pavilion from the Ruta del Peregrino pilgrimage route (see our earlier story) this time a ring of concrete by Mexican studios Dellekamp and Periférica. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article