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Chilean architecture was popular on Dezeen this week, including a tiered residence with Pacific views (above) and an earthquake-proof house (below), plus here’s our track of the week from Dezeen Music Project. (more…) View the full article

The final extract from our Book of Ideas selected by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs this week is a 24-hour performance involving two janitors constantly sweeping lines of rubbish to represent the hand of a clock. (more…) View the full article

Despite being surrounded by electricity pylons, this hillside cabin in Japan by San Francisco firm Anderson Anderson Architecture generates all its own energy and heating using photovoltaic panels and a ground-sourced heat pump (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Students at this cooking studio in Lithuania can prepare meals at worktops with knife-shaped legs, before sitting down to eat in a dining room carpeted with fake grass. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a graphic designer at London firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects, winner of the World Building of the Year Award last month with their Gardens By the Bay tropical gardens in Singapore (shown above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Product news: tapered legs support the curved seat and backrest of this wooden chair by Bangkok designers Slap Studio for Thai design brand Curio. (more…) View the full article

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects plans to address the housing crisis in Vietnam by introducing modular homes that use cheap local materials and are easy to assemble. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, Chris Hatherill from Hackney company Super/Collider speaks about the links between science and design and how his team handcrafted a particle accelerator. (more…) View the full article

From certain angles this performance centre in Belgium has a colourful stripy facade, but from others it appears camouflaged amongst the surrounding trees (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A hospital lounge for recovering patients is the next extract chosen by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from our Book of Ideas. (more…) View the full article

News that the world’s tallest building is to be constructed in just 90 days leads the latest issue of our weekly newsletter, which also features a 3D photo booth, an indoor cloud and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 129 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

The next movie in a series about the buildings of Slovenian practice OFIS Arhitekti features a social housing block on the outskirts of Ljubljana with a latticed facade inspired by local Alpine hayracks. (more…) View the full article

Three sandstone wings protect an inner courtyard from fierce coastal winds at this seaside house in Ireland by Tierney Haines Architects. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Bangkok-based design firm THINKK Studio has launched a collection that includes hanging lamps made from concrete and wood, concrete vases with wire frames and a little truck to hold your pens and paper clips. (more…) View the full article

International firm SWA Group has been selected to redesign Futian District in Shenzhen, an area that’s larger than Manhattan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Eslava&Sauras of Valencia has redesigned the European headquarters of Velcro in Barcelona, using the brand’s handy hook-and-loop fasteners to construct flexible screens and lampshades (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Berlin studio Gnädinger Architekten has completed a faceted golden museum dedicated to medieval marksmanship beside the fortified city wall of Duderstadt in Germany. (more…) View the full article

News: this Saturday the V&A museum opens its new permanent gallery for furniture, displaying objects from the middle ages to the present day by designers including Thomas Chippendale, Charles and Ray Eames and Ron Arad. (more…) View the full article

The next extract chosen by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from our Book of Ideas is a pewter stool cast in sand on a Cornish beach. (more…) View the full article

Film studio Carniolus has produced a series of movies to document the architecture of Slovenian practice OFIS Arhitekti and the first gives a tour of the 6×11 Alpine Hut, a holiday home in Slovenia’s Triglav National Park. (more…) View the full article

MINI’s head of design Anders Warming predicts that “we’re not too far away” from driverless cars in this interview with Dezeen, recorded at the launch of the new MINI Paceman in Mallorca (+ audio + transcript). (more…) View the full article

Californian firm amphibianArc was inspired by images of spacecrafts to come up with two different skyscraper proposals for the headquarters of a Chinese machinery company in Changsha (+ slideshow + movies). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Design Industry ceramic tile collection by Italian company Refin features two ranges of tiles that resemble metallic surfaces and cement finishes. (more…) View the full article

The new Tokyo flagship store for Japanese fashion brand Takeo Kikuchi has been specifically designed by Schemata Architects to offer a richer experience than online shopping, with spaces for relaxation as well as display. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the minimal VOID V03 by Hong Kong designer David Ericsson now comes in two new colours at Dezeen Watch Store. The watch is available in blue or grey. Get yours online or over the phone with free shipping worldwide for only £105. (more…) View the full article