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Berlin and Shanghai-based studio Playze stacked up perforated shipping containers to create offices for an organic farm in Shanghai, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen for Philips Lumiblade, German designer Daniel Lorch explains the ideas behind his desk lamp, which will be the first to use OLED technology when it goes into production next year. (more...) View the full article

News: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg will today lead the groundbreaking ceremony for the world's tallest modular building, a 32-storey residential tower in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards development by Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with Google for today's UK launch of the Field Trip app, which provides contextual information about your surroundings wherever you go. (more...) View the full article

London designer Mathias Hahn added concrete, brass and metal to these coloured glass vessels, which are inspired by making jam. (more...) View the full article

German architects Kister Scheithauer Gross used Jewish symbol the Star of David to create patterned windows in the limestone walls of this synagogue in Ulm, Germany. (more...) View the full article

The latest house in our A-Zdvent calendar of residences named after letters cantilevers from the landscape in southern Germany and has 380 acrylic cylinders puncturing its facade. Read more about House R » View the full article

A Tube train will appear on the back of Britain's £2 coins next year, designed by British studio BarberOsgerby for the Royal Mint to celebrate the 150th anniversary of London Underground. (more...) View the full article

Product news: whether you fancy the Frenchman, the Millionaire, the Tennis Coach or the Fireman, the characters in this range of designer sex toys have been created in response to stereotypical female fantasies. (more...) View the full article

Slideshow feature: these images by French photographer Julien Lanoo document the opening week of the Louvre Lens, the Musée du Louvre's new sister gallery designed by Japanese architects SANAA and New York studio Imrey Culbert. (more...) View the full article

Danish studio BIG has unveiled plans for two twisted apartment blocks in Coconut Grove, Miami (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Established & Sons (above), Tom Faulkner and Studio Webb Architects, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with UXUS, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Gort Scott and more... (more...) View the full article

Sloping meadows and woodland thickets are all that surrounds this boxy concrete house in the mountains of western Austria by local studio OLKRÜF (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Wine bottles are displayed in rainbow-coloured cages in this wine shop in Stuttgart, Germany, by local studio Furch Gestaltung + Produktion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Built on a steep site in Spain, the seventeenth house in our A-Zdvent calendar consists of three intersecting volumes arranged around a central circulation space. Read more about Q-House » View the full article

A glazed reading room appears to float over the still waters of a shallow pool at this town library in Maranello, Italy, by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and Italian architect Andrea Maffei (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A secluded balcony surrounded by timber protrudes from the clean white facade of this house in Osaka, Japan, by architect Ido Kenji (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: these A-shaped stools by Japanese studio Torafu Architects slot together to make a bench. (more…) View the full article

Today’s addition to our daily A-Zdvent calendar is a renovated summerhouse in Spain with a spiral staircase leading to the roof. Read more about PC House » View the full article

This mysterious dark gable facing the Piazzale Roma in Venice marks the entrance to a long narrow courthouse by Italian studio C+S Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Dominic Wilcox shares his thoughts on 3D printing and presents some of his “fun, crazy” projects including GPS shoes, a combined coffin and desk and a reserve bungee jump in this movie we filmed at 100% Design. “We shouldn’t be so scared of putting out ridiculous thoughts,” he says. (more…) View the full article

French studio FREAKS freearchitects has renovated an apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, once the address of Napoleon I, so the architects decided to dress up as the former emperor for the photo shoot (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian architect Andrea Tognon refurbished this L-shaped building in Teolo, Italy, by adding the missing corner and it’s the latest house in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about Residence O » View the full article

This week on Dezeen we featured the twisting towers that MAD completed near Toronto (above), OMA’s plans for Sydney and MVRDV’s pixellated bank headquarters in Oslo, plus we’ve selected our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri has created a set of table lamps with metal shades hanging from thin stalks. (more…) View the full article