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Inside 2011: finally, Table No.1 by NHDRO wins the bars and restaurants category at the Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will chair a discussion with Milan designer Fabio Novembre at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London tonight as part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro‘s latest series of talks on Italian design. You’ll be able to watch the talk via a live stream on Dezeen Screen from 7pm. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Having noticed piles of old books used as props in fashionable boutiques and bars, Royal College of Art student Koby Barhad created this “time machine” to accelerate the ageing of new tomes into objects with a sense of history. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

(Mostly) Designed in Hackney: east London designers Dominic Wilcox, Ed Carpenter, André Klauser, Barnaby Barford and Donna Wilson have created a range of alternative souvenirs for visitors to east London during the Olympic games. (more…) View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was our most popular architecture story last week so here’s a run-down of all twelve temporary pavilions over the years by architects including SANAA in 2009 (above, photographed by Iwan Baan), Jean Nouvel in 2010 and Frank Gehry in 2008. (more…) View the full article

London designer Aimée Furnival has created a series of model kits featuring famous London landmarks and they’re now available at our pop-up design shop Dezeen Super Store! (more…) View the full article

News: construction is set to recommence on 56 Leonard Street, a 250-metre-high residential tower in New York designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and dubbed the “Jenga building”. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with interior designer Marcel Wanders (pictured above), Studio Egret West and HawkinsBrown, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Universal Design Studio, Russell Sage Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: Belgian designer Maarten de Ceulaer nailed bendy leather planks onto solid wood to create this installation of stripy furniture for Italian fashion house Fendi (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This tiny house in northeast Los Angeles by local studio Anonymous Architects contains only three rooms and is lifted off the hillside on a set of concrete pilotis (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five graphic prints that depict iconic buildings by architects including Oscar Niemeyer, Zaha Hadid and Álvaro Siza. (more...) View the full article

News: Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic passenger spacecraft broke the sound barrier during its first rocket-powered flight in California yesterday. (more...) View the full article

Shoes are displayed in metal mesh columns at this footwear store in Osaka, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a chapel originally designed by Antoni Gaudí for the Sagrada Família is set to constructed in Chile, 90 years after the Catalan architect's death. (more…) View the full article

Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem has renovated a 1950s house in Tel Aviv with a roughly hewn sandstone mosaic wall inside it (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: footage taken through a car windscreen of a town after dark was manipulated by director Kevin McGloughlin to create this music video for electronic act Sunken Foal. (more…) View the full article

Double-height glass doors slide back to open up an entire facade of this house in Israel by architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: Lebanese designer Najla El Zein has sent us this movie showing her 5000 spinning paper windmills being installed in a doorway at the V&A museum in London (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: an island in the Venetian Lagoon used as a landfill site could be transformed into a huge theme park under controversial plans by Italian fairground designers Zamperla. (more...) View the full article

News: US publisher Riverhead has collaborated with 3D-printing firm MakerBot to create the first printed book sleeve. (more...) View the full article

We've featured a few projects that utilise bricks in interesting ways recently, so we've collected some of our favourite brick-built projects from the pages of Dezeen onto a new Pinterest board. See our bricks Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

A sequence of vaulted ceilings and arched openings sets up layered vistas through the interior of this beach house in Southern California by Los Angeles firm Johnston Marklee (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: futurist and writer Bruce Sterling was among this week's visitors to the FOMObile in Milan – the first mobile press room for an algorithmic publishing experiment led by Joseph Grima (+ download). (more...) View the full article

This house in Mexico by Japanese architect Tadao Ando boasts a swimming pool that projects from a hillside and concrete walls that frame views of the Sierra Las Mitras mountains (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Ayca Dundar has redesigned the umbrella, paring it back to a pop-up canopy with six parts so it can recover from being blown inside out. (more...) View the full article