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Pavel Míček Architects has built a concrete holiday home in the Beskydy Mountains of eastern Europe. Read more View the full article

The interior of this Zurich wine store by Swiss architects OOS is built from crates used to transport the bottles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Ronen Kadushin has designed an open-source mallet for smashing up iPhones. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This cantilevered house in Suffolk, England, by MVDRV of Rotterdam and British firm Mole Architects will be the first of five homes from Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project available for rent on 22 October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Bozen based designer Simone Simonelli has designed this folding chair from timber rods. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nothing but a four metre-high door penetrates the plain facade of this house in northern Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Johnny Selman of San Francisco is designing a poster a day for 365 days based on a headline taken from the BBC News website. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: one of our most popular stories this week features a cafe where timber stalactites hang down from an undulating ceiling (top right), so we’ve compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about caves and grottoes. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lots of new jobs on our recruitment site Dezeenjobs this week, including positions with Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen, David Gill Galleries and London designer Sebastian Bergne, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with Fuseproject, Linley, Steven Holl Architects and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Swedish architects TAF presented this collection of lamps based on the shape of a stretched rubber band at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Duo Series is a collection of minimalist pendant lights by Californian lighting manufacturer Meteor Lighting that glow from both ends. Read more View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has designed a speed boat in collaboration with Officina Italiana Design for Italian boat brand Riva. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors to Outline Editions gallery in London next week will be able to stamp out Noma Bar’s graphic artworks by feeding sheets of rubber and paper into the maws of a giant hole-punch shaped like a dog. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gerrman architects Kada Wittfeld Architektur have completed this metal-bodied museum in Glauburg, Germany, that cantilevers out towards a historic Celtic burial mound. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this interview filmed by Dezeen for trade show Garden Unique at Spoga+Gafa, British garden designer Andrew Wilson of Wilson McWilliam Studio talks about a few of his favourite projects, including a pathway cantilevered over an intense sea of roses (above). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have got together with designer and optician Gunnar Gunnarson of Icelandic spectacle company Reykjavik Eyes to give away five pairs of their titanium spectacle frames. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Over 100 designers including Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and Michael Marriott will exhibit artworks based on a piece of A4 graph paper at Somerset House in London next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs including positions with OMA in Rotterdam, Tom Dixon in London and MAD in Beijing, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with United Designers, Mathmos and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bricks from demolished local buildings were used to construct this museum in Mouscron, Belgium, by architecture studio V+. Read more

Australian designer Marc Newson has designed an hourglass for watch brand Ikepod, which contains tiny stainless steel balls in place of sand. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more images of boiled leather furniture by Tortie Hoare, the winning project from New Designers Part 2 earlier this month (see our earlier story). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Dezeen have been at the London Design Festival, where we opened Dezeen Space in Shoreditch and officially launched the Dezeen Book of Ideas. Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by so far! Ron Arad was presented with the London Design Medal 2011, Tom Dixon hosted a discussion on the state of manufacturing in Britain and Marcel Wanders launched a range of products for British retailer Marks & Spencer. Other attractions include David Chipperfield’s metallic glass pavilions on the Southbank and greenhouse made of Lego in Covent Garden. Meanwhile the Firstsite arts centre by Rafael Viñoly has opened in Colchester and a concrete house in Sri Lanka by T…

London designer Ross Lovegrove has launched this LED pendant lamp for Japanese lighting brand Yamagiwa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architect John Pawson has won a competition to renovate the new new premises of London’s Design Museum - Building Design </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us some images of an auditorium in Vic, Spain, made from a jumble of golden blocks by architect Josep Llinas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article