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This week’s most popular Dezeen story was Ai Weiwei’s porcelain sunflower seeds at the Tate Modern, so we’ve compiled a selection of projects from the Dezeen archives that incorporate ceramics. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Doors in this Portuguese house by Jorge Mealha Arquitecto are rendered in the same material as the walls to give the impression of closed blocks around a terrace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architect John Pawson has designed images of ribbons to show support for Japan that can be downloaded in exchange for a donation to disaster relief following the earthquake and tsunami earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Seto, Japan, by architects AUAU is wrapped in a faceted shell. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is one of many London design businesses supporting Love Japan – a design auction taking place at Clerkenwell Design Week next week to raise money for Shigeru Ban Architects’ evacuation centre project, which is helping people made homeless by the recent earthquake in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A spiralling staircase is visible behind the gridded exterior of this office block in Vevey, Switzerland, by Swiss firm Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the semi-detached suburban house that was home to writer JG Ballard for 49 years is for sale, the Independent reports. Ballard lived in the house in Shepperton, London until his death in 2009. The property is valued at around £320,000. The Independent </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five existing concrete kiosks in Madeira have been wrapped in volcanic basalt and overlapped by the walls of a new registry office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Ikeda Yukie have completed a house with rounded edges for an elderly couple. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese studio SAMI arquitectos have completed a blackened timber house on the hillside of a Portuguese island. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

English architects Designscape have reversed the orientation of a country house in Bath by adding a prominent glazed entrance to its rear. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Ninkipen! have planted a tree at the centre of this hair salon in Kadoma and surrounded it with mirrored A-frames. (more…) View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have designed a shoe store where the shoes walk around the store on their own. (more…) View the full article

This hotel by Mexican architects Gracia Studio comprises 20 separate cabins dotted across the landscape in one of Mexico’s wine-making regions. (more…) View the full article

This renovated office in China by Vector Architects features plant-covered walls and a bright orange glass meeting room (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The aeroplanes of the future will be catapulted into the sky, fly in formation like birds along “express skyways” and glide into airports with their engines turned off, according to aviation company Airbus. (more…) View the full article

Circular hollows create sunken rooms and curved balconies inside this wooden house in Japan by UID Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

To prove that germs aren’t all bad, Paris-based studio Bold-design came up with an activity kit that uses bacteria to turn sand from the beach into stone souvenirs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Glowing walls, windows and furniture will replace light bulbs and LEDs in homes as OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology improves, according to Dietmar Thomas of Philips Lumiblade (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Polish fashion and interior designer Aga Brzostek has created a chair with an integrated blanket for wrapping up warm in winter. (more...) View the full article

Chairs, carpets and blinds cleared from homes in the wake of deaths, divorces and bankruptcies form the raw material for these stools by Dutch designer Joost Gehem (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Huge vertical louvres give a pleated appearance to this family house in Kyoto by FujiwaraMuro Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Here are the latest images of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' extension to the British Museum in London, set to complete early next year. (more...) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen at the unveiling of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London today, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains how he used a rigid geometric grid to create a soft and natural atmosphere. (more...) View the full article

This boxy house in Kyoto by Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Atelier (YYAA) has a narrow body intended to recreate the proportions of Japanese government-built apartments of the 1950s, 60s and 70s (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article