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Pint glasses of beer provided the inspiration for this cluster of tower blocks underway in Qingdao, China, by architects RTA-Office. (more...) View the full article

The pared-down logos found on vintage Japanese cameras inspired Istanbul-based design consultancy Antrepo to create conceptual minimal logos for web brands like Facebook, Google and YouTube. (more...) View the full article

Product news: South Korean designer Soyoon Choi has created a wooden lounge chair with armrests inspired by a ribcage. (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

Maison&Objet 2013: these chairs by French design studio Ibride appear warped and uneven, but seen from a certain angle their silhouettes resemble classic designs (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: a gagging order preventing architects, engineers and builders from promoting their involvement in the London 2012 Olympics has been lifted after the UK government paid £2 million to the British Olympic Association. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with FR-EE (whose anvil-shaped museum Museo Soumaya is shown above), Conran and Partners and HawkinsBrown, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with UNStudio, Molton Brown and more... (more...) View the full article

Portuguese studio Aires Mateus has transformed a house in Portugal into a bright white building with a sprawling extension (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Roeland Otten uses mosaic tiles, paint and photographic prints to disguise scruffy public buildings like this former public toilet in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Products are displayed amongst an array of colourful metal wireframes at this pharmacy in Madrid by interiors studio Stone Designs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A tree-filled courtyard is glimpsed through the shimmering glass-brick facade of this house in Hiroshima, designed by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Board-formed concrete walls mirror the grained texture of timber screens at this hillside house in Chile by Santiago-based Gubbins Arquitectos. (more...) View the full article

An open fire welcomes visitors to this egg-shaped hut built by Danish studio SHJWorks on the edge of a Copenhagen park (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In the last movie of our Seven Designers for Seven Dials series, designer Paul Cocksedge demonstrates what happened when passers-by called the floating illuminated phone number he installed for the project curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: after publishing a herringbone-clad cinema in the south of France earlier this week (top right), we've filled our latest archive with all the unconventional cinemas featured on Dezeen. See all our stories about cinema design » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Here are the first photographs of Jean Nouvel's Tour Horizons, an office block in Paris that looks like a pile of three separate buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2013: Berlin-based product designer Daniel Becker has created a set of ceramic tiles that let stoves give off more heat. (more...) View the full article

In this movie we filmed, Aberrant Architecture director David Chambers tells the story of a Covent Garden tradesman whose collection of pennies inspired their aerial installation for Seven Designers for Seven Dials curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti with coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes. (more...) View the full article

This week 3D printing has been in the spotlight on Dezeen, with a boom in demand for 3D-printed sex toys (above) and the race to be first to print an entire building (below). Scroll on for more 3D printing news and our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Toronto studio Hot Pop Factory has customised Pez sweet dispensers with 3D-printed heads of customers to replace the usual cartoon characters. (more...) View the full article

These new shots by photographer Ty Cole document the scene at Louis Kahn's Four Freedoms Park in New York, which opened to the public in autumn 2012 almost 40 years after it was designed (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position in London for an architect at Balmond Studio. Founder of the studio Cecil Balmond worked in collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor to create the 115 metre-high sculpture ArcelorMittal Orbit for the London 2012 Olympic Park (pictured above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: Apple has trademarked the design and layout of its retail stores, nine years after the first Apple Store opened in Virginia, USA. (more...) View the full article

News: architect Rem Koolhaas, the director for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, has revealed that the title for next year's show will be Fundamentals. (more...) View the full article