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Takeshi Hayatsu and Kristin Trommler of London studio 6a Architects collaborated with students at Cardiff University to build a timber-framed tea house with wattle and daub panels. (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 Heatherwick Studio, UXUS and David Gill Galleries, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, BIG and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing architect Naihan Li presented crates that unfold to become a collection of furniture at a pop-up disco lounge for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In case you hadn’t noticed, this week we opened our Christmas shop The Temporium at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG. Drop in to see over 20 designers and brands selling their products direct to the public, plus 10% off Dezeen Watch Store and the chance to win a goodie bag worth £100. Meanwhile Burger King opened a rustic-style fast food joint to rival last week’s McDonalds refit and our most popular story was a Swedish seaside house with a glass-fronted lookout loft on its roof. Readers debated whether the latest Maggies cancer care centre represents a downward spiral or enveloping arms and a jagged glass restaurant by a Norwegian cliff…

The yellow stone and white render walls of this house in the Lithuanian countryside curve around to form a semicircle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Transform your bare office into an Italian palazzo with this wallpaper by UK designers Young & Battaglia that lets you pretend to be surrounded by Renaissance-style angels carved in stone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Textasiða, a typography exhibition by graphic designers Snæfríð Borsteins and Hildigunnur Gunnarsdottir, was on show last month at Crymogea as part of DesignMarch 2012 in Rekjavic, Iceland. (more…) View the full article

Designers Rikkert Paauw and Jet van Zwieten of Foundation Projects transform refuse skips and their contents into small buildings. (more…) View the full article

The British summer has been rained off so far, but these umbrellas by Ella Doran will remind you of sunnier days. They’re available from the Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2, so come down to the launch party on Thursday 12th July and print off this flyer for 10% off any product in store! (more…) View the full article

Movie: the base and sock lining of these lightweight football boots by Nike are made of castor beans, as explained in our next movie with the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti ahead of this evening’s exclusive event at the Nike+ House of Innovation at Selfridges. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new in at Dezeen Watch Store this week is Dark Noon by Japanese designers Nendo for Danish brand Noon. Each watch in the collection tells time in its own unique way. Gear (above), tells time using a collection of gears that rotate around each other as time passes. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can get a 35% discount on a new book of speculative architectural drawings and designs, curated by artists Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb and published by Lawrence King. (more…) View the full article

Here are photos of the full collection of furniture designed by actor Brad Pitt, which features a dozen pieces including a bed, tables, chairs and a marble bathtub (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: British furniture designer Bethan Gray has created a collection of oak and linen lamps for department store John Lewis. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in the first of his bi-weekly columns for our new Opinion section, Sam Jacob describes the way that sites like Dezeen have unleashed a "design tsunami" and discusses how "the endless spewing of design imagery" is affecting design culture. (more...) View the full article

UK firm Mole Architects extended a protected farmhouse in south-east England by adding an extension with a barrel-vaulted roof that references local agricultural buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This curvy brick house for Madison, Wisconsin, is designed by architects Thomas Phifer and Partners to resemble a serpentine garden wall. (more...) View the full article

News: architect Daniel Libeskind has been chosen to design a Holocaust memorial in the state capital of Ohio, USA. (more...) View the full article

Take a tour through the spaces of Zaha Hadid's Galaxy Soho complex in Beijing, China, in this movie by architectural photographer Dan Chung. (more...) View the full article

These two charred-timber cabins house a temporary artist's studio that will travel across the UK, offering passers-by a glimpse into the working processes of the occupants (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Exposed brickwork, pegboards and adaptable wooden display units feature in this Dublin clothing store by Irish studio Designgoat (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Mail issue 172 leads with a facade that appears to have slipped into the front garden and includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 172 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Both wearable technology and 3D printing have been hitting the headlines this week. Our Dezeen Music Project track of the week, plus more architecture and design news from the past seven days follows. (more...) View the full article

Plants could be genetically engineered to produce textiles at the same time as food, according to this synthetic biology project by designer and researcher Carole Collet. (more...) View the full article