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Dezeen have teamed up with authors Ruairi Glynn and Sara Shafiei to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new book Digital Architecture: Passages through Hinterlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Timber battens cover the ceiling of skincare brand Aesop's newest store in Singapore, which architecture firm Snøhetta based on a nutmeg plantation that once occupied the site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Amanda Levete Architects have sent us these images of their proposals for a new cultural centre in Lisbon with a roof that spirals around from the existing riverfront pathway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Bam Geenen of Studio Geenen has designed a chair using hanging chains to determine its form. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gabled wooden structures encasing glass-walled living spaces will distinguish a group of treehouses that Peter Pichler Architecture has designed for a forest in Kitzbühel, Austria. Read more View the full article

London designer Héctor Serrano presents a series of lamps and vases combining glass and cork at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris architects Nadau Lavergne have completed a round wooden theatre and matching circular restaurant for a campsite in the south of France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Ole Scheeren has designed a skyscraper for Kuala Lumpur that will have a four-storey-high tropical garden slicing through its middle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

There’s been a bit of a re-use theme on Dezeen this week with seats made of hair, bowls made of money and buildings made of skips. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the VOID V02 watch by Hong Kong designer David Ericsson is back in stock in brushed stainless steel at Dezeen Watch store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with David Chipperfield Architects, furniture designers Linley and Ginseng Chicken Architecture. This is also the last chance to apply for jobs with Fitch, Camron and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch graduate designer Carolien Laro has designed a range of stools with flexible seats created by cutting slits into their solid wood tops. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese interior designer Yukio Kimura has created this combined cafe, gallery and second-hand book shop in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured architects: Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron are our featured architects at the moment. Browse all Dezeen’s stories about them in this special category. Enjoy! Featured architects: Herzog & de Meuron Above (from left): Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron. Portrait © HamburgMusik/Michael Zapf. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Singapore design duo Studio Juju have created a series of chairs and lighting with exaggerated details taken from the features of animals. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs, including positions with architects OMA in Rotterdam, Foster + Partners in London and clothing brand Levi Strauss in Brussels. This is also the last chance to apply to work with Tom Dixon, Mikou Design Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architects have tranformed a 1930s church into a house in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At the Designersblock exhibition during last month’s London Design Festival, Tokyo designer Chicako Ibaraki displayed the Hollow stool, Weave bookshelf and Line light (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Boston studio Ruhl Walker Architects have completed a wildlife recovery centre in Hawaii. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie, architect Rafael Viñoly talks to Dezeen about firstsite, a visual arts centre wrapped in golden metal that he has completed in Colchester, England. Watch the movie here and see more images of the project in our earlier Dezeen story. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana present this wrinkly armchair for Italian brand Edra at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In order to create a "silent" interior for this Lithuanian coffee shop, designer Inga Pieslikaitė paired birch wood furniture with poured concrete flooring and white-painted walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this week Dutch designer Marcel Wanders presents a chair made by the same blow-moulding technique used to manufacture water bottles. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in London is publishing a webcast and Twitter summary of Design for Growth, its 2011 Design Summit, taking place this morning and featuring designers including Jonathan Ive of Apple, Ian Callum of Jaguar and Tom Hulme of IDEO. Follow the summit here from 10.35am </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Next we take a look at our most popular stories from April this year. In at number one was Thomas Heatherwick’s hairy UK pavillion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, made up of 60,000 transparent rods. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article