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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

An events space designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA has opened in the basement of London department store Selfridges, featuring a circular amphitheatre, vivid green columns and a stripy monochrome floor (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman has created a cup holder that snaps onto handlebars so city bikers can cycle with their takeaway coffees (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Büro Ole Scheeren, Priestmangoode and David Kohn Architects, whose renovated Barcelona apartment is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Lego, Studio Fuksas, Mecanoo architecten and more... (more...) View the full article

South Korean designer Il Hoon Roh has created a chair by intertwining carbon fibre strings into a pattern designed to resemble the branches of trees (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An immersive exhibition demonstrating creative uses of computer coding – from vintage video games to animated robots – opens today at the Barbican Centre in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Roland Lamb, inventor of the squishy-keyed Seaboard piano that won the Designs of the Year 2014 product category, claims we are on the cusp of a new generation of "multidimensional" digital musical instruments. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Biennale Interieur to give away five pairs of tickets to the Belgian design festival, which takes place in Kortrijk from 17 to 26 October. (more...) View the full article