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Matra Architects has used precast slabs of textured white concrete to clad a house formed of three interconnected pavilions set high above a lake in Udaipur, India. Read more View the full article

We're roughly one-third of the way through Virtual Design Festival, having completed 24 days of the 77-day marathon! With the VDF team taking a break today as its a holiday in the UK, here are the ten most popular VDF video posts so far. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The Change Agent flooring collection by US manufacturer Milliken offers a range of earthy colours "to bring the outside in". Read more View the full article

Brooklyn office Caliper Studio have completed an apartment in New York that features a very complicated stainless steel staircase. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bayalpata Hospital is a medical complex in Achham, Nepal, built from rammed earth by American architecture office Sharon Davis Design. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: design writer Alice Rawsthorn’s latest column in The New York Times previews this week’s furniture fair in Milan. Read the article. Related: see all our coverage of Milan 2010. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian studio Caramel Architekten have completed the first of five buildings for a science park in Linz, Austria, which is bent in the middle and cantilevered at one end. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At DMY Berlin this week Berlin designers NOI present their first collection of furniture, comprising simple wooden trestles and sewn Tyvek pockets. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more of the villas from Athens developer Oliaros‘ project on the island of Antiparos, Greece including designs from Tokyo architects Atelier Bow-Wow, Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Greek firm decaArchitecture (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These photos from British designer Austin Houldsworth show the results of his machine, featured in our earlier story, built to fossilise a partridge (above) and a pineapple. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More design for the kitchen: these cooking vessels by Paris designer Laurent Corio are made of white clay with coloured enamelled interiors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This athletics track in Alicante by Spanish studio Subarquitectura has an alternative track that loops up over the roof of the changing room. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This colourful series of public toilets recently completed by Japanese architects Future Studios in Hiroshima have been designed to resemble origami cranes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

How might our homes change if they had to accommodate robots too? (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architect John Pawson has installed the largest lens ever made by crystal brand Swarovski in the southwest tower of St Paul’s Cathedral for the London Design Festival, which starts on Saturday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the second instalment of our video interview with Rem Koolhaas, the OMA co-founder discusses two of his current preoccupations: the countryside, which he is addressing for the first time; and generic architecture, which could result in neutral, copyright-free building forms. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium 2011: our Christmas shop The Temporium is now open! In the first of our Advent calendar stories, we’re giving away a Flying Santa card by London design consultancy Studio91 with the first 50 purchases made at the shop. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, London designers JAILmake Studio talk about their Brick Replacement Service, which turned seeds and soil into bricks during a day at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul studio Cloud and Co have designed this discrete bottle-shaped desktop humidifier. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Mail has gone weekly and this issue includes our plans for Milan next week, stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions and updates from Dezeen Wire and Dezeen Screen. Check it out here. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

Chinese architects Neri&Hu have completed this private member’s club in Beijing. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was unable to attend last week’s opening of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion that he designed in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron so he made this movie about the project instead. (more…) View the full article

This week The Shard was inaugurated in London, legendary Italian car designer Sergio Pininfarina died and new dean of architecture Alex de Rijke announced the end of “paper architecture” at the Royal College of Art. (more…) View the full article

A meeting table with swinging chairs (above) leads the latest issue of Dezeen Mail, which includes the best stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions, movies and more. Read Dezeen Mail issue 118 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This week’s job of the week is an opportunity for an industrial designer at Wiel Arets Architects. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design. View the full article