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US studio MB Architecture has stacked shipping containers to construct this black holiday house in Amagansett, New York in a few days. Read more View the full article

Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast speaks to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 5:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The flexible Plug & Light fixture by Jung features a magnetic LED that can be rotated, removed and replaced Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: a self-assembly chair designed in 1974 by Italian designer Enzo Mari has been put into production by Finnish furniture brand Artek. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has sent us a movie about an exhibition of his work on show in Seoul, which includes this 9-metre window made of 500 glass prisms (above). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram have installed eight robotic arms to scrawl messages from the public across the air in Trafalgar Square, and Dezeen readers can use a special VIP code to get their messages prioritised. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has created an installation of chairs wearing crocheted clothes at Interieur 2010 in Kortrijk, Belgium. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Kaj watch by New York designer Karim Rashid is now available to buy from Dezeen Watch Store and at our London pop-up shop The Temporium, which is open until Sunday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish architects Johannes Norlander Arkitektur have renovated this 1950s island cottage near Gothenburg. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese artist Didier Faustino has created a mask that clamps over the faces of a kissing couple. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week the first of the London Design Festival events opened, including John Pawson’s installation at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bouroullec brothers’ Textile Field at the Victoria & Albert museum. Dezeen Space opens tomorrow at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN. Dyson launched a new heater that takes its cue from their Air-Multiplier bladeless fans and Icon magazine celebrated its 100th issue. A handy hotel for napping at airports popped up in Moscow, the RIBA unveiled the shorlisted entries for their Pylon of the Future competition and we rounded up our stories featuring Corten steel, including a see-through church. A film showing the const…

Dezeen Screen: in this next interview filmed at Dezeen Space, designers LingJing Yin, Mark McKeague and Ting Chung Jessica Cheng demonstrate how they created a soundscape at Dezeen Platform by channeling the electrical charge in people’s bodies, then amplified the sound by asking visitors to link up. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year we featured a couple of wacky clocks – a timepiece of unfurling paper that creates ever-changing shapes, and a belt-driven clock for an architect. We also revealed the news that Norman Foster was working on proposals for a new California campus for computer giant Apple, which we published in the summer. Meanwhile Singaporean designer Tan Lun Cheak produced a glass table that doubles up as a cooker and Milan designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso created a set of paper maps that can survive being screwed up in a pocket or rucksack. We featured a residence clad in tarred black shingles from the Living Architecture series of holiday homes, as well as a large ho…

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with architects Herzog & de Meuron and designers Marcel Wanders, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, Priestmangoode, Barber Osgerby and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our most controversial story this week announced writer Alain de Botton’s plans to erect temples for atheists across the UK – read the story and join the debate here. It also emerged that Disney were selling a T-shirt inspired by the 1979 album cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, but don’t rush to order one as they’ve all sold. We also showed a robe made of golden silk harvested from over a million wild spiders and a tower built by flying robots. Our most popular story featured a blackened timber house surrounded by sheep on a Portuguese island and readers showed a lot of love for the bottle-shaped shutters of a wine shop in Prague, but argued about the sloping …

Designed in Hackney: Dalston designers Kay + Stemmer present this collection of benches, side tables and stools for Shoreditch design brand SCP at MOST in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

German photographer Menno Aden has shot a series of Berlin interiors from an unconventional viewpoint: looking down from the ceiling. (more…) View the full article

You can get 20% off selected watches by Hong Kong brand Ziiiro in the Dezeen watch store summer sale. The Orbit watch with two planets in the place of hands comes in blue, grey, yellow and white, and is now only £92 (UK and EU) or £76.67 (rest of the world). Buy now » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

This week on Dezeen our readers have been obsessing over safety, with a tirade of comments demanding handrails and balustrades for a house with holes in the walls and floors (above) and concerns for the stability of a deck chair with no back legs (below). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: data streams from all over the city are visualised on the faceted surfaces of Japanese designer Keiichi Matsuda‘s installation inside the cupola of the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

A faceted wrapping of aluminium looms over the platforms at this high-speed railway station in northern Spain by Abalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our pick of the positions on Dezeen Jobs this week is a vacancy for an interior designer at David Collins Studio in London. The studio is best-known for luxury interiors including stores for Alexander McQueen and restaurants like Nobu Berkeley Square and The Wolseley (above). Visit the ad for full details or browse over 20 more interior design positions on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This gymnasium in Utrecht by Dutch studio NL Architects has no windows but features walls that swell outwards to let light in from above (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving five readers the chance to win two sets of their Instagram photos printed onto custom Polaroid and roll film-style prints. (more...) View the full article

This week we've been in Cape Town for the start of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Meanwhile, read on to catch up with what Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Philippe Starck have been up to this week and listen to the Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article