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News: work has started on a football stadium in Bordeaux, France, by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. (more...) View the full article

News: Chinese brand management conglomerate BlueFocus Communication Group is to acquire a majority stake in fuseproject, the San Francisco industrial design studio headed by Yves Béhar. (more...) View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: Yuki Fukumoto of Japanese architects FHAMS discusses the unusual rooms at Tama Hotel in Phnom Penh, which won the Hotel category at this year's Inside Festival. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Marcel Wanders and Camron PR, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Starbucks, Aesop and more… (more…) View the full article

The 3,000 hugely varied churches built in Poland between 1945 and 1989 were often created as a rejection of communist authority. Kuba Snopek, co-author of Day-VII Architecture, picks five of the most intriguing. Read more

A smart ring developed by New York-based designer Hussain Almossawi allows people with sickle cell disease to monitor and detect low oxygen levels in their blood. Read more

Zaha Hadid's concrete university building in Beirut, an apartment with a rooftop swimming pool, and Dezeen columnist Kieran Long's reaction to the Venice Architecture Biennale feature in this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter. Read on for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 206 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Floating architecture is becoming more common as architects explore ways to make the most of picturesque locations, deal with rising floodwaters, and alleviate pressure on available land. Examples range from tiny cabins to entire cities, and include the UK's "first amphibious house". See more stories about floating architecture » View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Justin McGuirk (pictured above, holding the award) and the Urban-Think Tank team of Venezuela (also pictured above) have won the Golden Lion for best project at the Venice Architecture Beinnale for their Torre David installation and cafe. (more…) View the full article

Arched doorways and shuttered windows give this Japanese residence by Takushu Arai the appearance of an oversized playhouse (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An oversized camera lens punctuated by a single bullet hole forms the Broken Landscape memorial dedicated to photographer Gordan Lederer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are joining the teaching staff at Parsons design school in New York, after leaving the Design Interactions course at London's Royal College of Art last year. (more…) View the full article

A client's strong ties to Japan informed the interiors of this Barbican apartment, which has been overhauled by Takero Shimazaki Architects. Read more View the full article

A hole in this toothbrush directs water from the tap upwards like a drinking fountain for easy rinsing (+movie). (more…) View the full article

The lamp that Moustache created for French national railway service SNCF is now available to buy and, to mark the occasion, the Parisian design brand has released a series of movies featuring huge furry characters. Read more View the full article

Turkish artist Refik Anadol has used artificial intelligence to turn millions of photographs of New York into the Machine Hallucination film. Read more View the full article

Food design studio Bompas & Parr has created an incredibly lightweight edible meringue using a process originally developed to manufacture the lightest solid material ever made. Read more View the full article

Archi-Union has surrounded the Light of Internet World Internet Conference Centre in Wuzhen, China, with pavilions that were built using robotic construction techniques. Read more View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: here’s a slideshow of images of the Fazenda Boa Vista Golf Clubhouse by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfield, which was named World’s Best Sport Building at the World Architecture Festival this week. (more…) View the full article

Music: directors Harry Israelson & Harry Schleiff enlisted the help of a yellow inflatable man called "Mr Wiggles" to make this music video for Les Sins' dance track Bother. (more...) View the full article

Toronto design studio Castor has launched a set of accessories for marijuana users that resembles a vintage candy dish, ahead of Canada's expected legalisation of the drug later this year. Read more View the full article

A new copyright law in the UK will "wipe out" design book publishing and cripple design education, according to author and publisher Charlotte Fiell. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: Dutch designer Richard Hutten has created a series of sofas and armchairs designed to resemble the icons on a smartphone screen. (more…) View the full article

More bamboo: this floating tea house in Yangzhou, by Chinese architects HWCD Associates, features brick rooms linked by louvred bamboo corridors and brises soleil. (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our new and improved recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Layer, Commune Design and WilkinsonEyre, the firm behind the Titanic-themed SeaCity Museum in Southampton, UK (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with MAD, Ben Adams Architects, RIBA and more... (more…) View the full article