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This week's Dezeen Mail includes Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (pictured) and Shigeru Ban's Pritzker Prize win, along with the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 195 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Norwegian designer Stian Korntved Ruud has committed to carving one spoon per day for a year to explore the forms that are possible using different types of wood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, projects from 68 countries including work by BIG, Heatherwick Studio and Zaha Hadid Architects were shortlisted for awards at this year's World Architecture Festival. Read more View the full article

Japanese design studio Nendo has created an alternative to the tricky task of nurturing a bonsai tree with its Grid-Bonsai – a 3D-printed version of the plant that owners can prune to their liking. Read more

These PVC shoes by Japanese designer Satsuki Ohata mould to feet like a second skin, using a process similar to dipping food in melted cheese (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Singapore design student Chan Min Yun has packaged doses of medicine in little origami parcels that open like flowers when placed into water (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Here's a selection of our favourite Christmas cards and movies we've received this year, including a collapsible model snow globe from architecture firm Aedas (pictured). (more...) View the full article

A stone-clad house in woodland close to Antwerp by DDM Architectuur features an indoor pool and a double-height music room overlooking a pond. Read more View the full article

São Paulo firm Andrade Morettin Arquitetos has encased exhibition spaces at this cultural centre in the city in a huge red wooden box, which can be glimpsed through the building's translucent glass walls. Read more View the full article

Danish studio Kilo has designed a set of headphones that allow users to create different arrangements of headbands, earpads, cables and speakers (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Just when we thought things couldn't get much weirder than last week, we featured human cheese, humans giving birth to dolphins and bees that can sniff out cancer this week. Read on for more architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Creating the sets for the final season of fantasy epic Game of Thrones was a "logistical nightmare", says production designer Deborah Riley. Read more

A road that recharges the batteries of electric vehicles as they drive has opened on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. Read more View the full article

This week’s job of the week is a position as dean at Syracuse University School of Architecture in New York. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design » (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: the architects behind plans to create a cluster of freshwater swimming pools on the River Thames have unveiled a proposal for a floating pool on the Yarra River in the Australian city of Melbourne. (more…) View the full article

The tall gabled form of this house in the Czech countryside is based on archetypal local barns and accommodates living areas with a height of nine metres (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This greengrocers turned burger bar in Adelaide, Australia, by designer Peter Jay Deering, features white tiled walls, neon signage and a chunky concrete trough for hand-washing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

There are barely any clothes in this minimal fashion boutique in São Paulo, which local firm MNMA Studio has expanded with a glass-fronted corridor to join its two sides. Read more View the full article

Design graduate Ailsa Inglis has created a menstrual cup aimed specifically at young girls, with the aim of normalising alternative period products. Read more View the full article

American firm David Baker Architects has completed an eco-hotel in Sonoma County that features board-marked concrete walls, a garden courtyard and a brise-soleil made of redwood slats. Read more

We've pinned all the best images of proposed and completed projects by Zaha Hadid Architects onto our first Pinterest board dedicated to a single architecture practice. See our new Zaha Hadid Architects Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See all our stories about Zaha Hadid Architects » View the full article

Architect Hiroyuki Miyake used a traditional English bricklaying pattern for the ceramic tiles on the walls of this beauty salon in Toyokawa, Japan. (more…) View the full article

A glazed panel in the base of this cantilevered swimming pool by architecture studio NOA gives bathers dramatic views of the South Tyrolean Dolomites. Read more View the full article

Woman-only member's club Allbright has opened a venue in London's Mayfair with work exclusively by female artists across its five floors. Read more

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a reflective glass table for Italian design brand Glas Italia in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article