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Chevron motifs taken from military uniforms are interspersed around this cafe at London's Royal Arsenal Riverside by Paul Crofts Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Delicate glazing fits around a bulky concrete structure at this hilltop house in Toledo by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A kindergarten play area shaped like a mountain surrounded by clouds has been completed by Japanese firm Moriyuki Ochiai Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have added three new colours to their Corniches shelves for Vitra. (more...) View the full article

Berlin architect and designer Sophie von Bülow knocked through walls between two residences to create this spacious apartment in her home city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban completed his Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch this week. Keep reading for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

A twisted entanglement of tree branches appears to grow organically from the beams of Paris' Palais de Tokyo museum in this installation by Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the builders behind this two-tower 47-storey skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain, have forgotten to include a working lift. (more...) View the full article

British studio MoreySmith delved into the archives of online fashion retailer Asos for textiles patterns to use while refurbishing the brand's London headquarters (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a retail design project leader at watch brand Swatch, whose new headquarters in Switzerland (pictured) is being designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: German sports car manufacturer Porsche has turned to its 5 million fans on Facebook to crowd source designs for a unique 911 car. (more...) View the full article

Belgian artist Nick Ervinck has masked the unattractive rear facade of a building in Ghent by constructing a gigantic yellow blob with a bar inside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Freedom of Creation co-founder and 3D Systems creative director Janne Kyttanen tells Dezeen that he believes one day everyone will have easy access to 3D printing in the first of our series of video interviews with pioneering figures in the world of additive manufacturing. (more...) View the full article

A garden snakes between the cedar-clad walls of this house in Osaka by Japanese architects Arbol Design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This coat stand by Stockholm designer Kyuhyung Cho appears to defy gravity, with a hovering metal ring keeping four diagonal sticks from crashing to the ground. (more...) View the full article

News: a team comprising Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Australian firm Hassell has won the high-profile competition to redesign Melbourne's iconic railway station at Flinders Street. (more...) View the full article

From the outside this house in Nagoya by Japanese architect Tetsuo Kondo looks like a pile of overlapping boxes, but inside it opens up to form one big bright space (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Surfaces appear to be stitched together with thick black thread in this fantasy bar and restaurant interior by Polish designer Karina Wiciak. (more...) View the full article

American architect Eric Fisher claims to have built the world's largest residential cantilever with this house in Pittsburgh that protrudes by 16 metres to hover over the roof of a glass factory (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This kindergarten in Gandia, eastern Spain, has a cloud-shaped courtyard that encloses six mulberry trees (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the newest addition to our collection is the Stop2Go watch by Mondaine, a classic timepiece inspired by Swiss railway clocks. (more...) View the full article

News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled new images and a movie showing the studio's proposals to convert an old textile factory in Belgrade, Serbia, into a free-flowing complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities. (more...) View the full article

In this movie we filmed at Domaine de Boisbuchet in southwestern France last month, design curator and collector Alexander von Vegesack gives us a tour round the estate, which features pavilions including Shigeru Ban's first building in Europe, pioneering bamboo structures by Simón Vélez and experimental domes by German structural engineer Jörg Schlaich. (more...) View the full article