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Prague studio EDIT! has sunken the majority of this Czech house below street level, so only a small gabled structure is visible to passersby (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has worked with artisans in Kyoto to design lamp shades based on traditional wire netting cooking utensils. (more...) View the full article

Slovenian firm 3biro Arhitekti designed underground rooms and cantilevers to create the impression that this family house "only slightly touches the sloping terrain". (more...) View the full article

Italian designer Tommaso Caldera has reinterpreted the classic caged workshop lamp by combining it with a domestic shade. (more...) View the full article

Rooms are housed within stark concrete boxes at this São Paulo artist's studio by AR Arquitetos, while a glazed atrium creates a light-filled space for painting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: a father takes an epic train ride to reach his daughter in this stop-motion music video by animator Simon Roberts for emerging UK band Flight Brigade. (more...) View the full article

A group of Nordic designers joined forces to create this simple wooden dining table for Swedish brand Fogia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Raw concrete ceilings are concealed beneath the faceted green roof of this environmental education centre in the Czech town of Vrchlabí, designed by Petr Hájek Architekti to sink into the topography of the surrounding parkland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Kingston University graduate Wen Jing Lai has fused western and eastern cutlery to create a series of hybrid eating utensils. (more...) View the full article

Zig-zagging balconies with larch railings enliven the facade of this apartment block in Graz, Austria, by Love Architecture and Urbanism (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week was filled with parties, as Chilean architect Smiljan Radic unveiled his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Zaha Hadid hosted a summer pool party at her London Aquatics Centre. Both events provided us with plenty of Instagram moments! Read on for architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Claw marks slash these wine bottle labels designed by Spanish agency Franziska Studio to represent the degree to which the strong body of the contents "scratches" the throat. (more...) View the full article

You won't find slides, ping-pong tables or other faddish touches at the New York offices of advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, designed by US architecture studio WORKac (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This kettle by Kingston University graduate Anna Czaniecka is shaped like two mugs so the user can precisely measure how much water to boil for cups of tea. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an architect at LAVA, whose proposal for the United Nations' Green Climate Fund Headquarters is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Melbourne studio Clare Cousins Architects rearranged and extended a Victorian house in the city's St Kilda East district to create two wings for living and sleeping, either side of a dining space that opens out to the garden. (more...) View the full article

American furniture brand Knoll has put a 1960s armchair by designer Charles Pollock back into production, following his death last year. (more...) View the full article

A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion based on the lightweight shell encasing the wings and abdomen of a beetle is the second structure revealed this week from the team of architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Amsterdam designer Tuomas Markunpoika has glued together pencils and milled them into vessels streaked with the coloured leads (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: London studio ScanLAB has worked with Vivienne Westwood to produce the first fashion shoot created with 3D laser scanners instead of cameras (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

London firm Stanton Williams has transformed the training facility it designed for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games into a major sporting venue for the UK's hockey and tennis organisations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: as architects in Chicago prepare to protest against declining working conditions, Mimi Zeiger argues that the industry needs to take radical action to gain the recognition it deserves. (more...) View the full article

Smiljan Radic's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and an interview with the millionaire businesswoman who transformed Fogo Island with cutting-edge architecture lead this week's Dezeen Mail issue 208. Read on for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 208 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

An apartment at Modernist architect Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille has undergone a colourful refit by French designer Pierre Charpin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Beijing office Vector Architects installed a louvred wall of weathered steel mesh along one facade of this visitor centre on a farm near Kunshan, China, to protect the building from the harsh western sun (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article