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Magnetic fastenings hold together these billowing layered outerwear garments by Kingston University graduate Phoebe Kowalska. (more...) View the full article

Built-in birch wood storage and glazed white tiles with contrasting pink grout feature in this small one-bedroom apartment, in Tapei, Taiwan Read more View the full article

Danish studio BIG has designed an observation tower shaped like a honey dipper for Phoenix, Arizona. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Axia collection from Australian brand Phoenix is a set of ultra-thin minimalist taps for architecture fans. Read more View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens' concept for a mobile phone made of detachable blocks has gone viral, attracting over 16 million views on YouTube and garnering almost a million supporters online (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

These new images by British photographer Paul Raftery reveal the post-Soviet-era architecture that can be found in Kazakhstani capital Astana, which is hosting the world expo this year. Read more View the full article

Photographer Roberto Conte has captured the geometric shapes of Le Corbusier's weathered concrete buildings at Chandigarh's in his latest series. Read more View the full article

In his latest photo series, Sebastian Weiss hones in on bright white details of Santiago Calatrava's Valencian art complex, blocking out the larger picture to capture a blanched kaleidoscope of repeating struts and identikit forms. Read more View the full article

Photo essay: a smooth granite church in Iceland and a curvy concrete water tower in Germany are among the architectural structures documented in this series by German photographer Sebastian Weiss (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A hotel in Munich is stretched, twisted, distorted and exploded in this series of 88 manipulated photographs by Spanish photographer Victor Enrich (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate ShiKai Tseng has decorated a range of vases by covering them in photo-sensitive solution then exposing them inside pinhole cameras. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This exclusive photography by Monica Nouwens captures the razing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as part of controversial plans to redevelop the site with a Peter Zumthor-designed building. Read more View the full article

Input Creative Studio has created a New York studio for a children's portrait photographer with a playhouse-shaped niche in one wall (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The ruins of Casa Sperimentale, an experimental concrete treehouse built by Giuseppe Perugini and Uga de Plaisant, have been digitally recorded for a new exhibition. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: thanks to everyone who came to visit our augmented reality watch store at Hackney House Austin during SXSW. Since getting back to London we've been busy putting together photos of all our visitors wearing their favourite watches from our collection. Browse the gallery on the Dezeen Watch Store blog » View the full article

Music: director Matteo Zamagni – also known as øøøø – created landscapes of imagined planets by manipulating photographs of cabbage, plastic bags and broccoli in his video for TSVI’s song Malfunction (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Here's a full set of images from this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The first images of Kanye West's prototype housing for the homeless have been revealed, as the musician faces an order to tear down the structures following complaints over construction noise. Read more

New images of BIG's Amager Bakke waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen, taken by Danish photographer Rasmus Hjortshøj, show that the artificial ski slope on the roof is coloured in vibrant shades of green. Read more

Italian architect Renzo Piano is building a major new health facility, the Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Surgery, in Uganda. Read more

An overhanging canopy shades the cascading exhibition spaces and outdoor terraces that make up Shigeru Ban's gallery at the Tainan Art Museum. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Tadao Ando is restoring a 18th-century stock exchange building in Paris and turning it into a contemporary art gallery. Read more View the full article

Moshe Safdie's 40-metre-tall Rain Vortex – the world's tallest indoor waterfall – is the centrepiece of Singapore's soon-to-open Jewel Changi Airport. Read more

Frida Escobedo, Michel Rojkind and Tatiana Bilbao are among the Mexico City-based architects who have opened their studios to photographer Marc Goodwin for his latest set of images. Read more

Dezeen in Israel: artist and designer Ehud Oren presents furniture disguised as buildings in an exhibition at the Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article