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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has trapped a crystal in a perfume bottle for crystal brand Swarovski. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This concrete residence in the state of São Paulo is split into a "night floor" and "daytime floor", designed by architects office RMAA to provide different levels of connection with a forest-facing patio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian designer Adam Goodrem has designed this console table with colourful lacquered-steel legs that pierce the table top. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This culture and technology centre based on the shape of a space station is under construction in Vitanje, Slovenia, and was designed by Slovenian firms OFIS Arhitekti, Bevk Perovic Arhitekti, 
Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti and Sadar Vuga Arhitekti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Luzinterruptus installed an army of radioactive scarecrows at a German festival and we finished the summer by rounding up our top ten stories about swimming pools. We also released the Dezeen Book of Ideas for pre-order ahead of its launch at Dezeen Space during the London Design Festival later this month. UK design organisation Hidden Art was forced to close, Angela Brady took over from Ruth Reed as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects and artist Ai Weiwei branded Beijing as “a city of violence” in an article for American magazine Newsweek. The winners of this year’s Index Awards were announced, including See Better to Learn Bet…

The rooms of a black and white house in California lead out to a series of stepped terraces with a view of the famous Hollywood sign. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These screens made of sticks covered in Velcro by designers Kawamura-Ganjavian will be used to divide exhibition stands at Designjunction in Milan next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gentrification is the hot topic in this week's comments update, after the creators behind New York's High Line launched a website advising on how to create similar projects without pushing out local communities. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2016: Swedish designer Monica Förster has partnered with brand Erik Jørgensen to create a coffee table to be used with her Savannah seating range for the Danish furniture company. (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Julia Krantz of Sweden has created this costume for a fictional guerrilla protestor. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent the latest issue of Dezeen Mail – take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of work by London architect Zaha Hadid has opened inside her Mobile Art Pavilion (see our earlier story), which has found its permanent home in Paris having toured New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong since 2008. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This holiday home in Kanagawa, Japan, by Japanese studios Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan comprises two separate blocks fanning outwards towards Tokyo Bay. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Wolf D. Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au has launched a scathing attack on the Venice Architecture Biennale, claiming it’s “no longer about lively discussion and criticism of topics in contemporary architecture” but places too much importance on celebrity. (more…) View the full article

This series of furniture by Norwegian designer Amy Hunting incorporates loops of felt for storage. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Jay Merrick on Jean Nouvel’s design for the Serpentine Pavilion in London, due to open in July - Independent See also: Our story about the Serpentine Pavilion design by Jean Nouvel All our stories about Jean Nouvel </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slidehow: architects Foster + Partners have been granted permission to build two 320-metre-high towers beside the Seine, just outside Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Unfinished plywood and cement smeared over concrete give a renovated Tokyo apartment the appearance of an elegant building site. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of iconic furniture by Danish-born designer Jens Risom will be on show at Rocket gallery in London next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: designer Constantin Boym of Boym Partners has been appointed as director of graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. See statement from Constantin and Laurene Boym below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architects Carmody Groarke have designed a temporary restaurant to be installed late this month atop a construction site overlooking the Olympic Park in east London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the 50th issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Basel studio Pedrocchi Architekten have designed an extension to this fashion house in Austria with a faceted glass front. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven graduate Lotte van Wulfften Palthe of Studio lvwp has designed a collection of furniture assembled from objects she’s collected over the years, including this lamp with a moustache. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This installation by Italian architect Francesco Moncada for the Wrong Weather store in Porto, Portugal, features wooden furniture clustered together in different formations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article