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Milan 2010: Eindhoven designer Joost van Bleiswijk has designed a series of chests containing giant vessels, presented by the Zuiderzee Museum at the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio have collaborated with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students to create a courtyard stage set made of coffee tables. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Michigan designer Andrew Kline has designed a compact unit for transforming disused industrial spaces into temporary homes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designers Priestmangoode have unveiled a conceptual high-speed train for the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Gijs Van Vaerenbergh have suspended a network of chains to create an upside-down dome inside this church in Leuven, Belgium. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: London designer Lee Broom will be selling his lights made from lead crystal decanters at our new retail venture The Temporium in London, 9-19 December. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, MAD in Beijing and Hussein Chalayan in London, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Fosters + Partners, B&B Italia and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This architects’ desk designed by Note Design Studio of Stockholm has been covered inside and out with pine veneer in a herringbone pattern, then charred black on the outside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two shipping containers provide a sea-facing observation deck atop this tower in South Korea by Portuguese artist Didier Faustino. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with authors Kerstin Zumstein and Helen Parton to give away five copies of their upcoming book Total Office Design. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year our most popular story featured electricity pylons shaped like giants striding across the Icelandic landscape. The Mayor of London published a guide containing 90 standards for new housing in London as Rotterdam trends agency Arch-Vision predicted an increase in prefabricated buildings. Other popular stories included a periscope-shaped camera, hard drives that look like cassette tapes and a house on stilts in Ibiza with a jumble of cascading terraces. Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy shared his imaginative short film about an autonomous, artificially intelligent city while six artists unveiled even stranger proposal…

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed for our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform, Portuguese designer Manuel Netto presents his Dock Lamp that can only be turned on by moving the bulb. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This animation by Emmy Castelain flips through our new Dezeen Book of Ideas, which features 116 projects by the world’s best creative minds. We’ll show the animation at our party in Barcelona this evening - click here for more details and your invitation. Watch the movie » If you can’t attend in person, you can order the book online for just £12 at www.dezeenbookofideas.com. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: London designers Doshi Levien installed a vision of their dream home at trade fair imm cologne in Germany last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Dezeen team jets off for Milan tomorrow to start setting up Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST, where we’ll be playing all the great music that’s been sent to us so far. We wanted a track to get us in the party mood, and we definitely wouldn’t complain if this track by Will Matiu came on in a club. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Dezeen archive: yesterday we featured a music school covered in oriented strand board with furniture to match, so here are lots more projects from the Dezeen archives that use the same material for an unfinished look. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: here’s yet another skyscraper proposal for the architectural zoo that is the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul – this time a 385-metre-high tower by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox with a vertiginous swimming pool sticking out two thirds of the way up. (more…) View the full article

Estudio Carme Pinós have designed their first furniture collection, including various styles of modular shelving and a wardrobe that hangs freely from the wall. (more…) View the full article

Industrial design graduate Ido Mohar has made a series of lamps that stand to attention when switched on and take a graceful bow when switched off. (more…) View the full article

A prefabricated concrete cube appears to hover above the wooden base of this house near Amsterdam by Dutch practice Engelarchitecten (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stripy glass screens obscure views between rooms at this dental clinic in Torres Vedras, Portugal, by MMVArquitecto (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: Hackney designer Ed Carpenter has created a countryside version of his London design classic, the Pigeon Light, this time shaped like a pheasant. (more…) View the full article

A Tube train will appear on the back of Britain's £2 coins next year, designed by British studio BarberOsgerby for the Royal Mint to celebrate the 150th anniversary of London Underground. (more...) View the full article

Our featured architect this week is Steven Holl, whose recent buildings in China include the completed Sliced Porosity Block cluster of towers in Chengdu and designs for a pair of museums in a new city quarter of Tianjin. See all our stories about architecture by Steven Holl » View the full article