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This angular rural house in Greece by Athens studio Tense Architecture Network has over half of its concrete body buried beneath the ground (+ slideshow + photographs by Filippo Poli). (more...) View the full article

A McDonald's restaurant and a petrol station are concealed within this faceted glass shell in Georgia, designed by architect Giorgi Khmaladze (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week the first 3D-printed gun was fired, closely followed by a US government ban on the blueprints allowing people to download and print one for themselves. Read on for our roundup of the past seven days plus the Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Stationery and ring-bound sheets of paper influenced this collection by Westminster fashion graduate Sophie Nuttall. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with designers Another Studio to give readers the chance to win one of five MONUmini kits for building a tiny Centre Pompidou or Villa Savoye. (more...) View the full article

News: Japanese industrial designer Kenji Ekuan, whose work ranged from the Komachi bullet train to the Kikkoman soy sauce dispenser, has died aged 85. (more…) View the full article

News: the world's vainest skyscrapers have been revealed in the latest report from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which reveals the unnecessary "vanity space" added to the top of the world's tallest buildings. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Herzog & de Meuron, SCP and Büro Ole Scheeren, whose pair of skyscrapers with concave walls for Singapore's historic Kampong Glam district is pictured. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, UXUS, Foster + Partners and more... (more...) View the full article

This cluster of gabled buildings by Hungarian office Bord Architectural Studio provides new tasting rooms for a winery in Hungary's Etyek-Buda region (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architects Rem Koolhaas and Foster + Partners will work alongside Hollywood power-couple Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin to create a new ocean-side cultural quarter at Miami Beach in Florida (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with David Chipperfield Architects, Priestmangoode and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, whose design for a new social sciences centre at the London School of Economics is pictured. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Martha Schwartz Partners, Philippe Starck, Axis Mundi and more... (more...) View the full article

London architecture studio Orproject has installed a forest of illuminated paper trees that join up to form a continuous canopy at a gallery in New Delhi (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Designer Tom Dixon will present a range of furniture and metallic lighting that references British members' clubs in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: flower stems thread through holes in these rings by graduate designer Gahee Kang, turning the silver and gold jewellery into posies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: cracked protective coating on the Willis Tower's glass viewing deck, 410 metres above ground level, leads to temporary closure. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's revised Tokyo Olympic stadium design and new photos of her Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 210, along with the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 210 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Polish artist and designer Alicja Patanowska has created a collection of hand-thrown ceramic plant pots that fit inside old glasses so both stem and roots can be seen. (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: an image of the cavernous white interior of Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center has been named architectural photograph of the year, from a shortlist that also featured a twisted skyscraper and a sunken flea market (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Swiss watchmaker Mondaine has released a watch dedicated to Helvetica, the iconic typeface designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its first project in Brazil – an 11-storey apartment building overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. (more…) View the full article

News: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has published her Anti_Fashion manifesto, outlining why she believes the fashion industry "is going to implode". (more…) View the full article

Music: giant waves, gale-force winds and meteor strikes spoil idyllic scenes in this animated music video for German band Keimzeit (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The logos for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Japanese graphic designer Kenjiro Sano have been unveiled by the event organisers (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Groves Natcheva Architects have turned to movie making, setting a short thriller in an apartment they renovated to explore new ways of representing architecture beyond still images (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2015: a bamboo community centre in Vietnam, a concrete music school in Tokyo and a "vertical village" of apartment blocks in Singapore are among today's category winners at the World Architecture Festival. (more…) View the full article