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This house beside a mountain in South Korea has a curved grey-brick facade that its architects compare to the body of a fish (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This flat-packed light by Nendo is made from a single piece of conductive paper, which can be rolled up to create a handheld torch in emergency situations. Read more View the full article

Penda has devised a modular facade system for a high-rise block in Vijayawada, India, that will allow residents to customise the appearance of the building with hanging gardens and balcony details (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a head of postgraduate programme at London's V&A museum, which recently hosted a robot-fabricated pavilion inspired by the wings of beetles (pictured). Read more stories about the V&A or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

French designer Jérôme Dumetz placed a wheel on each corner of this wooden sideboard to turn it into a miniature truck (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the fully electric Polestar 2 car is the innovation lab and performance car company's first fully electric vehicle in the growing electric-car market. Read more View the full article

John McAslan + Partners is developing new designs for the huge Baitul Futuh Mosque complex in south London, which was damaged by a fire last year. (more…) View the full article

The peeling, brightly painted walls of an abandoned house provide a striking backdrop to this collection of over-dyed handmade rugs by American designer homeware brand ABC Carpet & Home. (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has layered wooden boards to create striations inside this workspace and cafe for an online restaurant guide based in Osaka (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Boxy volumes with blue undersides shelter terraces in this deep-ocean research centre in Shenzhen, China, designed by Open Architecture to have sea-like features. Read more View the full article

A team led by JDS Architects has created a waterfront recreation area for the Danish seaside town of Faaborg where swimming areas sit between piers and decked surfaces curve up over small buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Sou Fujimoto's newly unveiled Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (above, photographed by Iwan Baan) is the big news in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 155 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Recycled parachute material wrapped over welded steel frames make up this collection of rocking chairs and screens by Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer and fashion studio Raeburn. Read more

Product news: new Neff fridges will come with this golf-ball-textured extendable egg tray by German design studio WerterlOberfell. (more…) View the full article

News: British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has been hired to revamp Virgin Atlantic's red uniforms. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: a father takes an epic train ride to reach his daughter in this stop-motion music video by animator Simon Roberts for emerging UK band Flight Brigade. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Red Deer has completed a virtual reality entertainment space in an east London railway arch with neon interiors that draw on the work of light artist James Turrell. Read more

Geometric furniture complements the Cubist stylings of this Paris house by Moussafir Architectes, which also features a weathering steel facade and a large pivoting door (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Playing on these swings outside an arts centre in Guimarães, Portugal, generates electricity to power lighting under the floor (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Competition: bi-monthly architecture magazine Architectural Design (AD) is now available on the iPad and we’ve teamed up with them to give away a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. (more…) View the full article

Inspired by Es Devlin's all blue set for the play Girls & Boys, this new Pinterest board shows interesting examples of set design, including Frank Gehry's crumpled paper stage for a Mozart opera and OMA's polycarbonate catwalk for Prada. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

Plushy, velvety brown pedicure chairs, a graphic mural and planting are among the details that designer Katie Gebhardt has included in this nail salon in San Diego, in order to eschew the aesthetic typically associated with beauty shops. Read more

Architecture studio Neri&Hu has opened a design gallery, shop and event space in a former colonial police station in Shanghai’s Jingan district. (more…) View the full article

Behind the white walls of this house in Mexico, architect Abraham Cota Paredes has carved out a courtyard and added a huge window to offer views of a tree planted inside. Read more View the full article

Product news: this extendable bookcase by Dutch designer Reinier de Jong, which became one of our most popular stories ever after we published the prototype in 2008, has now gone into production. (more...) View the full article