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This week we're updating our Pinterest boards that celebrate the projects that don't take themselves too seriously. Browse inflatables and bouncy-castle installations, hammocks and swings and slides used as alternatives to staircases. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read more

A five-sided pyramid with cutouts influenced by constellations was created to pay homage to heroic woman during this year's Burning Man festival. Read more

Studio Lotus has designed the Mehrangarh Fort visitor centre in Jodhpur, India, from a system of interconnected and adaptable decks. Read more

An oval reading room with stepped shelving and a display room with tree-trunk-shaped columns are among the spaces designed by Shanghai studio XL-Muse for this bookshop in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

DeDraft's roof-top extension to an east London home is clad in sheets of weathering steel that will naturally patinate to match the red brick and tiles of the surrounding architecture. Read more View the full article

Leading and emerging women working in architecture and construction will discuss the experience of working in both fields at a talk held in Knauf's London showroom. Tune in here live from 7pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the exhibitor line-up has been announced for the 23rd Biennial of design (BIO23), taking place from 27 September to 11 November 2012 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (more…) View the full article

News: artist and architect Vito Acconci is to receive the Designer of the Year award at Design Miami in December and has designed a playground (above) to be installed in the Miami Design District. See our recent interview with Acconci. (more…) View the full article

With just 30 days left until entries close for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, we have news of the awards ceremony, which takes place in London later this year. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Nomos Glashütte has introduced two Bauhaus-influenced watches, the Tangente midnight blue and the Tangente 38 midnight blue. Read more View the full article

News: Airbnb has come under fire from designers for the similarity between its new logo and existing branding for other companies, while social media users have been quick to draw comparisons with human genitalia. (more...) View the full article

The TED conference series has enabled leading thinkers, including architects, to share their ideas with the world for over 30 years. Dezeen contributing editor Jenna M McKnight has chosen some of the best presentations about the built environment from the past three decades. Read more View the full article

As part of our series focusing on the rising popularity of bamboo, here is a countdown of the ten most popular bamboo architecture projects on Dezeen, including a cafe, houses and a theatre as well as work by Kengo Kuma and Vo Trong Nghia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

South Korean tech giant Samsung has ceased production of its Galaxy Note 7 after reports of the smartphones exploding and catching fire. Read more View the full article

We've rounded up eight overhauled São Paulo apartments that show off Brazilian architecture talent, including a home for an illustrator and a renovated 1950s residence. Read more

The news that Foster + Partners wants to 3D print buildings using lunar soil leads this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 138 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

The illusory shadows of burning candles and unexpected assemblages of decrepit furniture make up the latest collection by British designers JamesPlumb. (more...) View the full article

London studio David Mikhail Architects has renovated a nineteenth-century house in London and added a glazed kitchen and dining room at the rear (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Illustrator Federico Babina has immortalised the faces of 33 prolific architects, including Zaha Hadid, Mies van der Rohe and Álvaro Siza, by creating portraits made up of elements from each of their buildings. (more...) View the full article

One storey hangs precariously over the other at this isolated hilltop house in Australia by architects Denton Corker Marshall. (more…) View the full article

With the Venice Architecture Biennale opening next week, here’s a full transcript of our interview with its director David Chipperfield, who explains the thinking behind this year’s theme, Common Ground. Chipperfield stresses the need for the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with.” Otherwise he says, architects risk being relegated to being “urban decorators.” (more…) View the full article

Swiss architecture studio Bureau A has built a pavilion out of recycled windows on the outskirts of Geneva. (more...) View the full article

Steel rings were moulded around a wooden chandelier before it was burnt away, leaving this latest piece in a collection of disintegrated furniture by Amsterdam-based Studio Markunpoika. (more...) View the full article

Interview: struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry hopes to wrestle back lost market share with a new touchscreen keyboard that will eradicate the "embarrassing" mistakes common on rival smartphones. "Sometimes it's kind of scary when you get your own emails back and you read them," said BlackBerry's head of design Todd Wood. (more...) View the full article

Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a NASA Mars settlement for four astronauts that could be 3D printed by a team of semi-autonomous robots (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article