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Hackney designers PearsonLloyd preview their workstations for office furniture brand Bene at Hackney House in Shoreditch tonight, with music by Dezeen Music Project. (more…) View the full article

A cluster of five gabled cabins make up this summer retreat in northern Denmark by architects Powerhouse Company (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Architects Allies and Morrison have added this gabled extension to a nineteenth century boarding school in Brighton, England. (more…) View the full article

Nameless Architecture used layers of flat fabric to form the stools and benches inside this cafe in South Korea's Gyeonggi province. Read more View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG, has joined the cast of Game of Thrones for one of the final episodes of the hit television show. Read more

The VOID V01 LED watch is now reduced by £50 as part of the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale. You can now get the V01 LED design by David Ericsson in selected colours for only £95 (UK and EU) or £79.17 (rest of the world). Buy now » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Opinion: when the team behind the Rosetta space mission landed Philae on a moving comet last week, they celebrated in a grey control room – the kind of uniquely bland space that has been the backdrop to some of the 21st century's most iconic moments, says Will Wiles. (more...) View the full article

This cafe and sweet shop in Okamoto, Japan, was designed by architect Yuko Nagayama to look like two separate buildings with a small courtyard and tree sandwiched in the middle. (more...) View the full article

News: Rem Koolhaas' studio OMA has been selected to masterplan a business and residential development linking the city of Doha in Qatar with the new Hamad International Airport. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio nano Architects has inserted a sunken circular living room into a 1960s apartment in Fukuoka (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has completed his first building for Make It Right, the charity founded by Brad Pitt to rehouse families made homeless in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (more…) View the full article

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

This family of concrete artist and designers' studios by Chinese office AZL Architects is located amongst the marshes of the Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Asda is to become the first UK supermarket to offer an in-store 3D scanning and 3D printing service. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: drops of coloured ink fall from the top of a stone staircase into a glass tank six storeys below in this installation at the V&A museum by German artist and designer Rolf Sachs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

ASWA Studio has designed as its architecture studio in Bangkok around a fully glazed internal courtyard that brings daylight into the building. Read more View the full article

In this movie, jury members of the Samsung Mobile Design Competition discuss how the finalists in the accessory category offered a wide range of interpretations of what a mobile device can be. Read more View the full article

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

In our next movie focussing on key projects by Richard Rogers, the British architect talks exclusively to Dezeen about his radical Lloyd's building in London and explains why he is not completely comfortable with the "high-tech" label that is often applied to his work. (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

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

Toyota is showcasing the winning entries of this year's Toyota Logistics Design Competition for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans to create a new art gallery at the V&A Waterfront museum in Cape Town by hollowing out sections of a grain silo complex. (more...) View the full article

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled images detailing its design for a 25-storey residential tower in New York's Soho. (more…) View the full article