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These felt elephant toys by German designer Daniel Böttcher are available at our pop-up design emporium Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Braun BN0076 is the latest watch to join Dezeen Watch Store’s carefully curated Braun collection. This minimal digital watch is based on the classic DW30 timepiece originally designed by Dieter Rams in 1978. (more…) View the full article

Photographer Jamie Young is compiling an archive to document the history of water towers in Ireland. (more…) View the full article

Chunky concrete boxes form a grid of secluded balconies across the facade of this apartment block in Kyoto by Japanese studio VIDZ Architects. (more…) View the full article

In a movie filmed by Alice Masters for the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence exhibition, Lawrence Lek explains how he created a modular system of plywood pieces that can be bent into objects including a stool and a pavilion. (more…) View the full article

UK studio NEX has won a competition to design a cafe outside the Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea with plans for a spiralling pavilion and rooftop garden. (more…) View the full article

News: Dutch architecture studio Universe Architecture is planning to construct a house with a 3D printer for the first time. (more...) View the full article

This week our most popular story featured a pen that can draw 3D plastic objects (above). Scroll on for more highlights from the week in architecture and design. (more...) View the full article

Food designers Bompas & Parr have come up with a musical spoon that you listen to through your mouth and a set of handmade bowls to match five new flavours of Heinz baked beans. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Rossana Orlandi curated an exhibition of work by designers including Nacho Carbonell, Front and Studio Libertiny at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Here's a full set of images from this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design graduate Joe Buttigieg has created a tubular steel chair that can be easily stored over the surface of a desk or table. (more...) View the full article

Each facet that makes up the facade of this community building in Poland by OVO Grabczewscy Architekci is covered in a sheet of shiny ridged copper to create the impression of flames (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our jobs of the week on Dezeen Jobs are positions with Specialized Bicycle Components in California, who recently unveiled the world's fastest road bike (pictured) in collaboration with McLaren. Visit the ads for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. Image credit: Steve Gallagher View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: these round stools by Stockholm designer Kyuhyung Cho can be stacked thanks to a ring of holes around the edge of each seat. (more...) View the full article

Each of these resin pots by east London designer Phil Cuttance is embellished with a unique iridescent sheen on its lid. (more...) View the full article

Flaps in this range of clothing by Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen open up to reveal solar panels, enabling the wearer to become a walking mobile phone charger (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: this chronograph version of the Record watch designed by Italian maestro Achille Castiglioni for Alessi now comes with a black nylon Nato strap. (more...) View the full article

Japanese design studio Nendo has created a range of chairs with wood grain patterns printed onto natural timber for a forthcoming solo show in Milan. (more...) View the full article

This zigzagging house in Australia by Iredale Pedersen Hook is raised above the ground on stilts to minimise its impact on the native landscape and wildlife (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French architecture studio Marion Bernard Agency added a geometric concrete structure into the back yard of a Marseille townhouse to transform the neglected space into an outdoor living room (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Folded aluminium panels create vertical and horizontal pleats across the walls of this music conservatory and concert hall completed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in the south of France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The extension to this refurbished house in Australia includes a covered outdoor space built around the trunk of a large lemon-scented tree (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fashion and technology: in the first part of a series focusing on designers who are introducing the fashion world to new technologies, Dezeen speaks to architect Julia Körner about how advances in 3D scanning, modelling and printing are creating a "revolution in customised fashion pieces within ready to wear" (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest activity tracker for the vagina is this device by London studio Goodwin Hartshorn, designed to help women strengthen their pelvic floor muscles and monitor their progress. (more...) View the full article