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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

News: Russian socialite and gallerist Dasha Zukhova has sparked a racism row after a photograph of her sitting on a chair in the form of an inverted semi-naked black woman appeared alongside an interview on a Russian website. (more...) View the full article

Graffiti depicting gangly imaginary creatures by street artist Phlegm is currently on show at an east London gallery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The facades of well-known buildings in Paris, New York and Brisbane have been reduced to a series of patterned surfaces and silhouettes in this series of images by French photographer Alexander Jacques (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This house in the Oxfordshire countryside was designed by London studio The Manser Practice with a Cotswold stone facade and a cantilevered terrace overlooking the woods (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

BMW's MINI brand has teamed up with Italian bespoke sports-car design company Touring Superleggera to create the MINI Superleggera Vision (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The overlapping volumes that comprise this family house outside Barcelona were designed by Spanish studio Mirag with clean white exteriors and bare concrete interiors (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article