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A pair of shell-like forms contain the two halls of this performing arts centre in Kansas City by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie of Safdie Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Gundry & Ducker created a pub inside a cardboard box inside the crypt of a London church. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A scooping concrete roof cantilevers over the rear entrance to a house by the Ganges River in northern India. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Zaha Hadid opened the new cave-like London showroom she’s designed for bathroom brand Roca and Ai Weiwei was dubbed art’s most powerful figure. This is the last week of Dezeen Space so your last chance to visit is this weekend! If you can’t be there in person, you can still check out our story on Dominic Wilcox’s Moments in Time sculptures here, watch an interview with him here, visit the online Dezeen Watch Store and pick up your copy of the new Dezeen Book of Ideas for just £12 here. You can also see all the exhibitors from our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform here and watch interviews with them on Dezeen Screen. Meanwhile, MVRDV have opened an exhib…

Following the controversy surrounding the release of the official London 2012 posters last week, graphic designer Sarah Hyndman has come up with a set of alternatives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our pop-up Christmas design store The Temporium has opened at 65 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Marcel Wanders, Nokia and Barber Osgerby, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Herzog & de Meuron, Vitsoe and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week last year designers BarberOsgerby were appointed to design the Torch for the London 2012 Olympic Games, while they later unveiled in June, a fashion designer and an architect showed a collection of 3d-printed clothing and a boulder-shaped mausoleum opened in Acapulco. Japanese architects Apollo completed two houses with pointy overhangs in Sendai, one black and one white, while in Denmark a physical shop opened where customers can buy digital fonts. A Dezeen commenter accused architects Ooze of raping an old house that they had wrapped with a faceted skin, and another thought an orange showroom building with gaping holes in its facade best resembled a chunk …

The first New York Frieze Art Fair took place last weekend inside a 450 metre-long snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn architects SO-IL. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio mA-style architects has completed a metal-clad house with a smaller wooden house inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with “breathtaking” mountain lookouts (above) and includes interviews with Steven Holl and Jaime Hayon, plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 109 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Nearly three years after first revealing his concept for a shoe with no foot-plate on Dezeen, architect and shoe designer Julian Hakes talks about designing the Mojito shoe as the first collection goes into production. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Dezeen is hosting a series of innovative daily live shows at 100% Design, starting today at 5pm with Icelandic designer Katrin Olina, design director of IDEO Tom Hulme (above), and critic and commentator Sam Jacob of FAT. (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail features our coverage of the Istanbul Design Biennial including a plotter that repeatedly writes text from the Open Source Architecture Manifesto onto a wall (above), plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 123 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

McDonald’s restaurants in France will soon be kitted out with designer outdoor furniture by Patrick Norguet and Italian brand Alias. (more…) View the full article

Two giant blue busts face each other across this Hong Kong boutique by Italian designer Fabio Novembre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Oiio Architecture Office of New York and Athens has come up with a concept to extend Frank's Lloyd Wright's famous Guggenheim Museum in New York by extending its spiralling form up into the sky. (more...) View the full article

Product news: items in this furniture range by Paris-based designer Arik Levy have wooden bases inspired by traditional Japanese footwear. (more...) View the full article

Unfinished concrete surfaces and wire-fencing balustrades give an industrial aesthetic to the interiors of this apartment building in Lausanne, Switzerland, by local studio Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to reconsider its decision to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum next door following an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics. (more...) View the full article

Volcanic rubble is scattered across the curved rooftops of these villas by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma on Jeju Island, South Korea (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In this movie Dezeen filmed at the opening of the new Camper store in New York, Japanese designer and Nendo founder Oki Sato explains why he covered the interior walls of the store with over a thousand white plastic shoes. (more...) View the full article

News: Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program contest, with plans to turn the courtyard of the New York gallery into a water filtration plant. (more…) View the full article

News: the "death-ray" effect created by sunlight reflected off the glazed facade of Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London were predicted over a year ago by a professional CGI artist, it emerged today as developers rush to install protective screens. (more...) View the full article