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The most popular stories on Dezeen this week include hidden furniture, a home delivered by helicopter and pyramid-shaped beach huts. (more…) View the full article

News: this Saturday the V&A museum opens its new permanent gallery for furniture, displaying objects from the middle ages to the present day by designers including Thomas Chippendale, Charles and Ray Eames and Ron Arad. (more…) View the full article

Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has won a competition to design a museum of Roman history in Nîmes with this building dressed in a pleated glass toga. (more…) View the full article

Holidaymakers can now spend nights sleeping beneath the surface of the ocean at this partially submerged hotel suite in the Zanzibar archipelago (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Danish designer Cecilie Manz has designed a collection of minimal furniture for Gloster, headquartered in Germany. Read more View the full article

"Women are doing some of the most prestigious work in New York" but nobody knows who they are, according to architect and filmmaker Beverly Willis, who wants to change this with her new movie about the women who have shaped the city. Read more View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Clerkenwell Design Week is underway and visitors to the main venue arrive through an archway clad in 20,000 wooden hexagons by London designer Giles Miller. (more…) View the full article

Canadian designer Maskull Lasserre has created a series of shoes that leave animal footprints. (more…) View the full article

Wutopia Lab has used over 5,000 white steel pipes to form the structure of The Last Redoubt, China's first museum for architectural models. Read more View the full article

Rio 2016: a 2.5 million-square-metre area west of Rio de Janeiro has been transformed by Brazilian firm Vigliecca & Associados to become one of two major locations during the city's Olympic and Paralympic games (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish company TRIWA is selling a limited-edition watch that features the hair of US president Donald Trump as hands, after the success of an April Fools-day prank. Read more

Construction is now underway on a twisted tower designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for Rolex in Dallas, Texas. (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2015: Central Saint Martins graduate Paulina Lenoir has designed a pair of comically long shoes that force wearers to reconsider their daily routes and pace (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Wood is the key to a more sustainable building industry, says architect John Klein, who has led Massachusetts Institute of Technology students in designing a large community centre from mass timber. Read more View the full article

Two terraces in Melbourne have been joined together and given an extension with a zigzag roof by Austin Maynard Architects. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the first watch in our new summer collection at Dezeen Watch Store is the solar powered touch-screen MY04 Suntich designed by industrial designer Michael Young for ODM. (more…) View the full article

Volcanic stone, grey metal and large stretches of glass form the facades of this eight-storey building in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood, which serves as the global headquarters for Pace Gallery. Read more View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Francis Bitonti Studio and PK Arkitektar in Reykjavík, whose projects include turf layered cottages in south-west Iceland (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with the University of Miami School of Architecture, Innocent Drinks, Grimshaw and more... (more…) View the full article

Trace Architecture Office has inserted a bookshop and cafe into old rammed earth gables of a long-abandoned house in rural China. Read more View the full article

Nike's decision to unveil its new Pro Hijab for female Muslim athletes on International Women's Day provoked a mixed response from readers in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

There are only three days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2019, and now you can enter our studio categories for half the regular price. Read more

This square building with a hollow centre appears to balance over a cluster of hills, creating offices and a central plaza for a business incubator unit in a rural Portuguese technology park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American architect Wesley Walls has created a home for his family in central Arkansas that is composed of stacked boxes clad in stone, metal and glass (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio in Milan, curator Lowie Vermeersch talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the programme of events for this year’s Interieur Biennale, which will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20-28 October and feature projects from the likes of Ross Lovegrove, Troika and Jurgen Bey. (more…) View the full article

Chinese furniture design is looking back to its cultural roots and reinvigorating past techniques, materials and forms, say authors Charlotte and Peter Fiell. Here they pick six items from their latest book that show how. Read more View the full article