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Stockholm designers Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho added different shaped holes to the stackable wooden blocks that make up this flexible shelving unit, creating spaces suited to displaying various items. (more...) View the full article

Handcrafted woven bamboo screens are suspended in sections to cover the ceiling and walls of this Isabel Marant boutique in Bangkok by Parisian studio Ciguë. (more...) View the full article

Folded aluminium panels create vertical and horizontal pleats across the walls of this music conservatory and concert hall completed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in the south of France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This inflatable bag by Royal College of Art graduate Peng You is designed to keep electronic devices safe from knocks and bumps. (more...) View the full article

Chilean studio Duque Motta & AA has completed a new business faculty for Diego Portales University comprising a pair of concrete boxes with balconies and terraces slotted over, under and through them (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A team led by JDS Architects has created a waterfront recreation area for the Danish seaside town of Faaborg where swimming areas sit between piers and decked surfaces curve up over small buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: a new watch created by Industrial Facility that is inspired by the design of beer bottles is now on sale at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Ayca Dundar has redesigned the umbrella, paring it back to a pop-up canopy with six parts so it can recover from being blown inside out. (more...) View the full article

Facebook, Instagram and Flickr are posing a serious challenge to professional photographers and changing the way architects work, says architectural photographer Cristobal Palma (+ interview + movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: HP, Intel and creative programme producers Cut&Paste have announced the start of their collaborative LaunchBox showcase – an online exhibition of some of Europe's newest pre-crowdfunded product campaigns. (more...) View the full article

News: American brand Herman Miller has begun producing the flexible office furniture collections designed by Yves Behar's studio Fuseproject and London company Industrial Facility (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German studio Format Elf Architekten has designed three holiday cottages for a resort in the Bavarian countryside that resemble archetypal pitched-roof barns (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Grey wool felt covers the walls of this Aesop store in Shepherd's Bush, London, by French architects Tolila+Gilliland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The living room of this home in Japan's Hyogo prefecture, by Tokyo architect Soichi Yamasaki, features a dog pen so the owner's pets can be involved in family life without running riot (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British artist David Shrigley has designed his first ceramics collection for the Gallery at Sketch on London's Conduit Street, as part of the restaurant's programme of artist collaborations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: Chilean architect Smiljan Radic says he wanted his pavilion to have the qualities of a giant hand-made model in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the unveiling of the 2014 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on Tuesday. (more...) View the full article

Pulsing rings of light traced the movement of visitors to this installation in Federation Square, Melbourne, by architect Asif Khan – who this week became the first architect to pick up a Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions awards (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Graduate designer Yerin Do presented leather clothes hooks that slot into wooden surfaces to make them look like they're infested with fungi at the Royal College of Art degree show, which opened last week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This series of wooden cabinets by designer Peter Marigold are stained at the joints to look as if they're bleeding. (more...) View the full article

Reflective stainless steel surfaces and a polished concrete floor brighten the interior of this extension to a terraced house in the Islington area of London by Architecture for London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo's latest accessory design is the first from a collection of minimal watches with graphics taken from a draughtsman's tools (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Frank Gehry's arts centre for a cultural foundation established by fashion brand Louis Vuitton is nearing completion in the Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris. (more...) View the full article

Northern Ireland studio McGarry-Moon Architects has inserted a contemporary living space into this stone barn, which has been long-listed for the Royal Institute of British Architects' 2014 Manser Medal for best British house (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art (RCA) graduate Ying Chang has created a modular system of furniture based on a two-dimensional grid system used for architectural drawing and graphic design (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Belgian architects Bruno Vanbesien and Christophe Meersman have designed a terraced house on the outskirts of Brussels that stands out from its post-war neighbours thanks to its timber skin and minimal form (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article