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A triple-height gallery housing a collection of prized paintings is concealed behind the wooden shingle facade of this house in Stuttgart by German architecture studio (se)arch (photos by Zooey Braun + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London and Montreal designer Emilie F. Grenier has created set of brass tools and a silk outfit for mining feldspar - the most plentiful mineral on Earth. (more...) View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced 26 winners for this year's Institute Honor Awards, including a holocaust museum beneath a hill in Los Angeles, a stone mausoleum in Minneapolis, and a concrete house on a rocky outcrop in Washington (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a storage rail based on a traditional Shaker-style peg board, a scaly room divider and a magnetic lamp were revealed as the winners of the [D3] Contest for young designers at the imm cologne trade fair today. (more...) View the full article

This small wooden pavilion was modelled on the design of a rural shed and added to an old museum in Germany by architects Von M (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon will show his latest range of brass home accessories based on cogs at the Maison&Objet trade fair later this month. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with C. F. Møller Architects, Moooi and Swatch, whose headquarters in Biel, Switzerland is set for completion in the summer of 2015 (pictured). Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Troika, KPF Shanghai, Foster + Partners and more... (more...) View the full article

London architect and designer Daniel Widrig has printed a stool from a mixture of sugar, plaster and Japanese rice wine. (more...) View the full article

The resident of a compact apartment in Madrid demonstrates how she can rearrange walls and pull furniture out of the ceiling in this movie by photographer and filmmaker Miguel de Guzmán. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: we spent 2013 travelling to cities around the globe as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Here's a playlist of some of the new music we discovered along the way, which we've been using on the soundtracks to all our movies. (more...) View the full article

We featured a couple of bright red buildings this week, so we've pinned all of the red-coloured structures on Dezeen onto a new Pinterest board. See our Pinterest board of red buildings » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

This vase by London designer Lambert Rainville supports flowers in a free-standing arrangement by holding their stems halfway up. (more...) View the full article

This rectilinear wooden cabin in Hungary by young studio Béres Architects nestles up against the exposed rock face of a former quarry (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: architect Terrence Riley takes us on a tour of downtown Miami and says that redevelopment of the historic area has coincided with a new emphasis on outdoor living in the city. (more...) View the full article

Visitors to London department store Selfridges can take a virtual reality tour created by technology company Inition inside a helmet by fashion designer Gareth Pugh (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This baguette shop in Warsaw, Poland, by architects MFRMGR is modelled on market booths and stalls set up in the city during the 1990s (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Russian product designer Ilya Tkach has created a simple desk lamp featuring a light source that snaps onto its stem with a magnet. (more...) View the full article

The revamps of two major public spaces - Place de la République in Paris and Times Square in New York - completed this week. Our Dezeen Music Project track of the week plus more architecture and design news follow. (more...) View the full article

News: a skyscraper shaped like a giant doughnut has been completed by Italian architect Joseph di Pasquale in Guangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Over 170,000 visitors to this year's Sochi Winter Olympics will be able to have their faces scanned and recreated on the facade of a building as part of an installation by London designer Asif Khan. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a project leader with Danish firm C. F. Møller Architects, whose domed tropical greenhouse that can be pumped up to alter lighting and temperature inside is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garçons has opened a branch of its London store Dover Street Market in New York City (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A series of steel-braced oak staircases and bridges connect the different levels of this extension to the Manchester School of Art by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The first products from new Danish design brand Herman Cph include a series of side tables with oak tops and slender steel legs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Chicago firm Studio Gang Architects has completed a boathouse on the northern bank of the Chicago River with a rhythmic roofline intended to capture the alternating motions of a rower's arm movements (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article