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Basel studio Pedrocchi Architekten have designed an extension to this fashion house in Austria with a faceted glass front. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Wiggling back and forth across an Amsterdam nature reserve, this curved timber maze by Dutch architect Anne Holtrop was designed to stage an exhibition of landscape paintings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Panels woven from steel wire filter light into this combined cafe and gallery by Spanish architects MSB Estudi Taller. (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

Curved alcoves nestle into earthquake-resistant walls at the rear of this renovated house in Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Copenhagen designers KiBiSi designed these headphones to withstand being worn in the rain and snow. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rather than design a run-of-the-mill skyscraper for a new hotel in Xian, China, architects 3Gatti decided to put lots of smaller buildings on a gigantic set of shelves. (more…) View the full article

This towel rail by Japanese designer Hioomi Tahara comprises a rope wound around wall-mounted sticks. (more…) View the full article

Architects AL_A have been granted permission to construct a subterranean gallery beneath a new entrance courtyard at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Next month marks the official opening of the Aurlandsfjellet Tourist Route; a scenic mountain road that begins at a wooden viewing platform perched 650 metres above Norways’s longest and deepest fjord (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

For those readers who asked to see more interiors from Zaha Hadid’s Pierres Vives government building in Montpellier, here’s a reading room lined with glowing bookcases by architect Stephane Hof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the architecture of OMA‘s Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam has been criticised following the theft of seven major paintings by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet. (more…) View the full article

Can the shape, texture and colour of cutlery change the way food tastes? Korean design student Jinhyun Jeon created this set of knobbly, bulbous and serrated cutlery to stimulate diners’ full range of senses at the table (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

More doomsday preparations: earlier this year we published this survival kit for tomorrow's predicted apocalypse, containing practical items such matches and water as well as chocolate and hard liqueur. It's designed by Mexican branding company Menosunocerouno and you can read our story about it here » View the full article

Our job of the week is a position in London for an architect at Balmond Studio. Founder of the studio Cecil Balmond worked in collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor to create the 115 metre-high sculpture ArcelorMittal Orbit for the London 2012 Olympic Park (pictured above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A mysterious dark tunnel leads into the boardroom of these offices in London by architects Studio Octopi (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Shepard Fairey, the American graphic designer who created the iconic HOPE image for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has designed a badge for astronauts on the International Space Station (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Art galleries are held inside an illuminated glass tunnel and balanced high above the ground at this museum by Steven Holl, the centrepiece of an architecture complex in a forest near Nanjing, China. (more...) View the full article

German designer Philipp Weber's glassblowing pipe with valves like a trumpet won the New Talents Award at DMY Berlin last week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: a masters student at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles has developed a method of using a robotic arm to 3D print objects in a tank of gel, allowing freeform printing without the need for support structures and potentially adding an "undo" function to remove errors (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A bulky concrete wedge creates a plinth for this steel-clad Quebec home by architecture studio Naturehumaine, elevating it above a rocky slope (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British fashion designer Paul Smith has extended his Albemarle Street store in London to include a room lined with dominoes and a patterned iron facade by 6a Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first video report from Singapore, Colin Seah of local architecture studio Ministry of Design tells us how the recent cultural shift away from mass-market shops and restaurants is helping transform attitudes towards design in the city. (more...) View the full article

Movie: in this exclusive video interview from Inside Festival, Joakim Lyth of Wingårdhs explains how the Swedish architecture firm used brightly-coloured curved glass to draw customers inside its Emporia shopping centre. (more...) View the full article

Montreal designer Loïc Bard has created a wooden stool to add to his collection of furniture with gaping mouths that store magazines inside the top. (more...) View the full article