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London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium 2011: Hamburg designer Alexa Lixfeld is presenting a range of handmade products at The Temporium including handwoven dolls based on drawings made by school children in Sri Lanka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The display system at this Japanese souvenir shop in Paris is just key rings hung on screws in the walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects J. Mayer H. have completed the first two of 20 roadside service stations for a new highway running from Azerbaijan to Turkey, through Georgia. (more…) View the full article

Madrid studios Mi5 Arquitectos and PKMN Architectures have built a half-submerged culture and leisure centre in the middle of a public square in Teruel, Spain (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: work finally starts this week on architect Denton Corker Marshall’s design for a new visitor centre at Stonehenge, a prehistoric stone circle in England, after years of wrangling and delay, English Heritage has announced (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: Nike Flywire cables that tighten on impact are built into these shoes specifically designed by Nike for running the 1500m track event, as described by the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti in the last movie of our Nike+ House of Innovation series commissioned by Nike. (more…) View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge has made a giant chocolate QR code that visitors to The Dock during the London Design Festival can scan to get a free gift (or you could just scan the image in the bottom of this story). (more…) View the full article

Product news: this magnetic bicycle light by Danish design studio KiBiSi lights up instantly when its two halves snap together. (more…) View the full article

The form of U-House by Jorge Graca Costa was inspired by traditional Mediterranean courtyard houses to protect it from the windy climate of western Portugal and it's the twenty-first door on our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about U-House » View the full article

This week 3D printing has been in the spotlight on Dezeen, with a boom in demand for 3D-printed sex toys (above) and the race to be first to print an entire building (below). Scroll on for more 3D printing news and our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a 3D designer at Ab Rogers Design in London, the firm behind the Scape student housing in London that we recently featured (pictured above) plus unusual interiors for chain restaurants Pizza Hut and Little Chef. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A narrow vertical slice at one corner is the only interruption to the monolithic facade of this plain white house in Miyazaki, Japan, by Hiroshima studio Tsukano Architect Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Furniture adorned with an intricate collage of gold and bronze motifs by the Campana Brothers is on show at the David Gill St James's gallery in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: London is set to offer a rival to New York's acclaimed High Line park with these competition-winning proposals for a landscaped promenade linking gardens and railways arches along the River Thames. (more...) View the full article

This shimmering metal-clad factory in Osaka was designed by Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada to echo the clean and fashionable style of the company's employees (+ slideshow) (more...) View the full article

This labyrinthian theatre set of slatted and solid timber is designed to create an environment for two strangers to act out an improvised performance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week was all about hyper-realistic renderings, as we interviewed Ström Architects about architectural visualisations and published Peter Guthrie's images depicting one of their projects. Our Dezeen Music Project track of the week and more architecture and design news follow. (more...) View the full article

This fly-through animation of Steven Holl's design for a new Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa was created by 3D design students at the school (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This secondary school in Germany by Behnisch Architekten features a spectacular combined quadruple-height atrium and assembly hall (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This range of flat-packed furniture by Benjamin Vermeulen does away with little bags of screws, fastenings or Allen keys and simply snaps together with super-strong magnets (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

London studio Scott Architects has added a curvy timber extension to a terraced house in Hackney, featuring a bowed wall that cuts through the centre of a green roof. (more...) View the full article

Six British architecture studios including Zaha Hadid Architects, Hopkins Architects and Studio Weave have come up with designs for water fountains for different sites across London. (more...) View the full article

Recent Norwegian projects including a sinuous hotel and a landscape intervention have been popular with readers, so we've collected together some spectacular examples of Norwegian architecture on our new Pinterest board. See our new Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

Milan 2014: cushions scattered on the Nubilo sofa by French designer Constance Guisset look like a collection of giant pebbles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article