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This Central Institute of Technology (CIT) building in Perth, Western Australia by Lyons and local practice T&Z has a copper, silver and coloured metal panel facade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: Spanish furniture and product design graduate Ornella Stocco has created a modular furniture system with joints made of porcelain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted glass triangles create glowing crowns around a trio of stadiums for the World University Games currently taking place in Shenzhen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we reported from the Inside awards in Barcelona, where a hotel in a former Japanese Army headquarters by NHDRO walked away with the top prize. A glass bedroom on the shoreline in Finland was the most popular story with Dezeen readers this week, along with a sculptural pavilion for viewing wild reindeer by Norwegian architects Snøhetta, described in one comment as “the stuff of fairy tales.” Foster + Partners unveiled an ambitious plan for a transportation hub in the Thames estuary, OMA added a new building to Cornell University’s historic campus in New York and BFLS designed a new college building in Cardiff with a wing-like metal roof. We compil…

German designers Reich und Wamser have completed a Cologne store with exposed brick walls and gauzy curtains for fashion brand Esprit. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week a pair of commemorative structures by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois were our most clicked story, so our first top ten of the year features the most popular memorials from our archive. (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 David Collins Studio, Fredrickson Stallard and United Designers, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marcel Wanders, Hulger and more… (more…) View the full article

The first product from new erotic brand United Indecent Pleasures is an eight-inch chocolate penis that oozes fondant cream. (more…) View the full article

A white concrete extension flows over the top of a former brewery in Zurich to give Swiss arts organisation the Kunsthalle Zürich its first permanent home. (more…) View the full article

Designer Reiichi Ikeda has come up with a shop for Japanese fashion brand Wonderland that has a small wooden house inside. (more…) View the full article

Movie: digital graphics company Crystal CG created this animated video to accompany the Chemical Brothers’ specially commissioned song, which is played before each session in the Velodrome during the London 2012 Olympics. (more…) View the full article

This shimmering steel house in Kyoto by Japanese architects ALPHAville towers above its vernacular neighbours. (more…) View the full article

Visitors to the Adhocracy show at the Istanbul Design Biennial are confronted with a plotter taking the text of the Open Source Architecture Manifesto from a Wikipedia page and writing it onto a wall. (+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, east London designer Paul Cocksedge describes his discovery of the interesting forms created when polystyrene cups are heated and how he used the process to create a pendant lamp. (more…) View the full article

Sunken cruise ship the Costa Concordia would be transformed into a watery memorial garden in this competition-winning conceptual design by London architecture graduates Alexander Laing and Francesco Matteo Belfiore. (more...) View the full article

This ridged steel art gallery by South Korean studio Mass Studies has half of its floors buried underground while others balance on a pair of triangular piloti (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British architect David Chipperfield has completed a new gallery building at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These futuristic images by French architecture graduate Alice Labourel imagine a shape-shifting ballet school that alters its elaborate structure to react to the movements of dancers, trains and the river (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: this collection designed by Arik Levy for outdoor furniture brand Emu features aluminium seats and footstools with tops that fold down around square frames. (more...) View the full article

Product news: magazines can be arranged at awkward angles within this sculptural magazine rack by Italian designer Marco Ripa. (more...) View the full article

This timber-clad beach house in Long Island was designed by New York studio Bates Masi with an angular form that funnels outwards to maximise living space on a restricted site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Following our interview with Ström Architects about the value of photo-realistic visualisations, the firm sent us a set of images by rendering guru Peter Guthrie showing a house proposed for Suffolk, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in his latest column, Sam Jacob argues that hyper-realistic environments created by digital games like The Room give us a new perspective on the history of design. (more...) View the full article

Architect Zaha Hadid's gallery space in London is to host a show of work by fashion designer Elke Walter, who creates the statement pieces worn by the architect. (more...) View the full article

Following the row over whether Zaha Hadid's World Cup stadium looks like a vagina, here's a roundup of yonic architecture from the Dezeen archives. As one commenter wrote: "There are enough phallic buildings in the world; maybe it's time for some vaginal ones". (more...) View the full article