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Stacked concrete and timber boxes frame the rooms of this guesthouse near Australia's Great Ocean Road, by Melbourne studio Whiting Architects. (more...) View the full article

Danish restaurant Noma commissioned Polyform Architects to create a landscape based on Nordic terroir to give pilgrims to the world's best restaurant a taste of what's inside, without disturbing diners (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Owners of Emeco's iconic Navy chair can finally avoid the shock of sitting on ice-cold aluminium with these purpose-made seat pads. (more...) View the full article

The latest poster series from Italian architect and illustrator Federico Babina takes 27 popular songs, from the likes of David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Elvis Presley and Mozart, and transforms them into cartoon buildings. (more...) View the full article

Design graduate Mireia Gordi i Vila presents a flexible and reusable packaging system for valuable goods at the Royal College of Art (RCA) show in London, which opened today (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch design studio Ninetynine has lined the entire interior of one of Amsterdam's smallest bars with boards made from compressed strips of wood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Steel loops of varying size can be twisted and contorted to make a variety of shapes in this customisable lighting system. (more...) View the full article

A mixture of large and small windows puncture the cedar-clad facade of this house by French studio Atelier Delphine Carrère, to both frame views and maintain privacy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Joe Doucet has launched a solid birch chair with a silicone tubular backrest that flexes to the shape of the sitter. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: every frame in this animated music video by London metal band Throne was embroidered onto denim patches. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: visitors can examine soapstone carvings and peer through narrow peepholes inside Canada's biennale pavilion, which focusses on architecture's role in the Innuit communities of Nunavut – the country's youngest and most northerly territory. (more...) View the full article

A highway maintenance-themed furniture collection by Antwerp-based Studio Job featuring marble traffic cones and bronze warning lights will be on show at Design Miami/Basel next week. (more...) View the full article

Reiach and Hall Architects have used grey bricks to create a sombre, respectful facade for the Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre near the Scottish city of Stirling (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swiss furniture brand Vitra has released a powder-coated version of the Eames Wire Chair, making it suitable for outdoor use. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: architect Anssi Lassila has installed two huts outside the Finnish Pavilion at the Venice biennale – the first was built from spruce by a Finnish carpenter while the second was put together from bamboo by a team in China. (more...) View the full article

News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has said he intends to work on fewer projects and may reduce the size of his office following his acceptance of the Pritzker Prize, which he says he did not expect to win. (more...) View the full article

Architect David Adjaye has referenced elements from Roksanda Ilincic's geometric fashion designs for the interior of her flagship store in London's Mayfair (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lisbon firm Topiaris Landscape Architecture has extended a 700-metre long timber walkway through wild riverside scrubland to connect a new Portuguese public park with a bird observatory (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The FIFA World Cup 2014 is now underway in Brazil, so we've collected together stunning examples of Brazilian architecture and added them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our stories on Brazilian architecture View the full article

Dutch studio Möhn + Bouman Architects has given a facelift to an institutional-looking care centre near Rotterdam by covering the facade in fencing made from chestnut wood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week Zaha Hadid completed a concrete building for the American University of Beirut. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has inserted a sweeping concrete wall into the new Milan store of fashion brand Duvetica. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Rem Koolhaas explains the concept behind his Monditalia exhibition, in which dancers and musicians perform amongst the architectural exhibits, in the second part of our video interview filmed in Venice. (more...) View the full article

A broken skateboard and fake designer handbags form parts of chairs in this recycled furniture collection, exhibited in Barcelona by designer Curro Claret. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a project designer at Clive Wilkinson Architects, whose office for a motocross apparel company in California is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article