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Architectural collective OH.NO.SUMO have tucked a miniature cinema into the steps of a building on a busy street in Auckland, New Zealand. (more…) View the full article

A theatre in Belfast with a faceted timber interior is another of the six buildings shortlisted for the 2012 Stirling Prize and was designed by Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week one of our most popular stories was about a robot that builds architectural structures from sand (bottom left), so our latest archive is all about sand. See all all the stories » See all the archive stories » View the full article

Designer Morag Myerscough used the tweets of a poet to create the bold graphics surrounding this temporary cafe in London. (more…) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: German designer Annika Frye incorporated a cordless drill in the rotational moulding machine she built for making one-off items using a process that would normally result in an identical series (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Despite being surrounded by electricity pylons, this hillside cabin in Japan by San Francisco firm Anderson Anderson Architecture generates all its own energy and heating using photovoltaic panels and a ground-sourced heat pump (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of The New Wave in Danish Architecture, a book featuring contemporary projects by Danish architects such as BIG and NORD. (more...) View the full article

Interview: struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry hopes to wrestle back lost market share with a new touchscreen keyboard that will eradicate the "embarrassing" mistakes common on rival smartphones. "Sometimes it's kind of scary when you get your own emails back and you read them," said BlackBerry's head of design Todd Wood. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: this silver serving set for tea and cake was designed by Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings for Danish silverware and jewellery company Georg Jensen and launched at Spazio Rossana Orlandi last week. (more...) View the full article

Spanish architecture studio Sol89 has converted a former slaughterhouse in the historic town of Medina-Sidonia into a school for training chefs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has applied for planning permission to construct a 27-hectare headquarters for Google in London's King's Cross. (more...) View the full article

Photo essay: Montpellier-based photographer Mary Gaudin has created a series of images documenting mid-century residential architecture in New Zealand, her home country. (more…) View the full article

High concrete walls enclose a secret garden around this residence for a poet in Zaragoza - our second story this week from Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with creative website It's Nice That to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of its Printed Pages magazine. (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: Dutch designer Elisa van Joolen has taken left over sample shoes from shoe brands including Nike, Converse and Clarks, and turned them inside-out to create new footwear (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This rusty metal tower was designed by Austrian studio Marte.Marte Architects to help tourists locate excavated Roman ruins on the outskirts of a town in western Austria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A rooftop swimming pool with a glass floor cantilevers out beside the entrance to this house in Marbella, Spain, by Dutch office Wiel Arets Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Visitors could suspend themselves within a 3D grid of ropes inside this inflatable installation created by Croatian-Austrian design collective Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This barn-like building in Slovenia by Ljubljana office Arhitektura d.o.o. contains spaces used for dispensing honey, processing dried fruit and hosting family festivities (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles' extendable table for Italian furniture brand Bonaldo turns its functional mechanism into an aesthetic feature (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: engineering firm Arup has produced prototype 3D-printed steel construction joints that could be used to create more efficient structures. (more...) View the full article

News: the design firm that claimed Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron bore "a striking resemblance" to its own work and this week received a financial settlement may never have shown images of its concept to London's Olympic organisers, it has emerged. (more...) View the full article

Prolific Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has just joined Apple's design team, so here's everything you need to know about the designer – including previous collaborations with Jony Ive and his most popular projects on Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

This clock by graduate designer Rachel Suming is made of engraved aluminium plates that overlap every three hours to reveal the time. (more...) View the full article

Swiss architect Max Dudler has completed a granite office building near Zurich featuring a regular gridded facade and a street-level colonnade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article