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Dezeen archive: this week's archive features architecture from Brazil including a house with no walls on the ground floor and a dream house hidden behind a mysterious orange door. See all our stories about architecture in Brazil » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Belgian design studio Pinkeye has combined a laundrette, a cafe and a hairdressing salon to create a place where customers can get a drink or a haircut while waiting for their washing. (more...) View the full article

This movie by designers Studio Swine demonstrates how waste plastic picked up by fishing trawlers can be transformed into chairs on board the boats. (more...) View the full article

This week Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (above) was announced as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and we rounded up his key past projects. Scroll on for more highlights from the week plus our favourite new track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Product news: this footstool by French designer Benjamin Graindorge for Ligne Roset is nipped-in with lengths of cord. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position in London for an illustration artist at Foster + Partners, architects of the Gherkin (above, image courtesy of Shutterstock). See all our stories about Foster + Partners here and see all current architecture and design jobs on our recruitment site. View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Berlin designers Osko+Deichmann exhibited the latest development in their line of kinked tubular steel chairs at Stockholm Furniture Fair. (more...) View the full article

This house in Toronto by Drew Mandel Architects features pale grey stone walls and an overhanging top storey (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Google's new Tel Aviv headquarters include a meeting area filled with orange trees, workstations on a make-believe beach and slides connecting different floors (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This dressing table by London designer Florian Schmid comprises a circular mirror with a two-legged table slicing halfway across it. (more...) View the full article

Slideshow feature: following the news that Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is designing this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, here's a look at some of his best-known projects, including the Final Wooden House made from chunky timber beams and the Tokyo Apartment that comprises four house-shaped apartments stacked on top of each other. (more...) View the full article

We've added a calendar to our World Design Guide, which you can add to your own calendar to keep up with the best international architecture and design events throughout the year. Click here to add World Design Guide to your desktop calendar or copy and paste this link to subscribe: http://www.worlddesignguide.com/worlddesignguide.ics www.worlddesignguide.com View the full article

Opinion: in a special Valentine's column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why designers have dumped dowdy green design in favour of glamorous robots. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Mail issue 139 features the Messe Basel extension by Herzog & de Meuron (above) and Sou Fujimoto's design for this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, plus all the latests news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 139 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has been named as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which will be a cloud-like structure made from a lattice of steel poles. (more...) View the full article

Spanish practice F451 Arquitectura has completed a faceted house and studio for an artist that folds out from a hillside in Gijón, Spain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the deadline for submitting architecture and design projects to this year's A' Design Awards and Competition is the end of this month. (more...) View the full article

British artist Richard Wentworth has collaborated with Swiss architects GRUPPE to build a pop-up wooden auditorium in the atrium of Central Saint Martins art and design college in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: designer Werner Aisslinger of Berlin and Singapore has created a storage system for German brand Flötotto that's held together by plastic clips. (more...) View the full article

Interview: earlier today, London studio Softkill Design unveiled plans for a 3D printed house. We spoke to Softkill's Gilles Retsin about the viability of printed architecture and how he intends to print a plastic dwelling in just three weeks. "When we started this research, it was a kind of science fiction," he says. "It's not actually that far off any more." (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the BN0106 is the first watch in the Prestige collection by Braun at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

News: London architecture collective Softkill Design has joined the race to build the world's first 3D printed house, announcing plans for a plastic dwelling that could be built off-site in three weeks and assembled in a single day. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created a paper cover to turn any glass jar or bottle into a faceted vase, sold to help impoverished women in Mumbai make a living. (more...) View the full article

Internet shoppers in San Sebastian can now pick up their purchases from a shop that appears to be furnished with nothing but cardboard boxes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has paid homage to the northern lights by constructing a titanium-clad cathedral that spirals up towards the sky (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article