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This week Bjarke Ingels unveiled plans to enliven Battersea Power Station with electric sparks (after designing a power plant that blows smoke rings) while Henning Larsen completed a building with a moving facade. Here's a reminder of all our stories about architecture that moves, including a building that flaps its wings like a giant insect and a house with rotating bedrooms. See all our stories about moving architecture » [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Beijing studio Atelier TeamMinus has completed a visitor centre for an ancient Buddhist memorial in Tibet, which features stone walls, a central courtyard and 11 rooftop observation decks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's chair and sofa for Italian brand Tacchini feature tall sloping backs that form triangular shapes when seen from the side. (more…) View the full article

"Do you trust robots?", "Could a robot do your job?" and "Do you believe in the death and rebirth of things?" are among the deep questions being posed to visitors at the Vitra Design Museum's latest exhibition. Read more View the full article

News: Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects has designed a headquarters for software giant Microsoft as part of plans for a new university and business district north of Copenhagen, Denmark. (more...) View the full article

This weekend cabin in a Washington national park, by Seattle architect Tom Kundig, features a protective steel exterior that slides across its windows and a floor raised up on stilts to prevent flooding. (more...) View the full article

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

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a head of programme: interior design at London's Royal College of Art (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

This movie shows how a redundant Second World War bunker in the Netherlands was turned into a sculptural visitor attraction by slicing it down the middle to reveal its insides. (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

Dezeen archive: this week we featured a skyscraper with an algae skin, so we thought we’d bring you all the projects involving algae we’ve published on Dezeen. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

News: wellness entrepreneur Nell Waters is attempting to raise £146,000 on crowdfunding website Kickstarter to build a prototypal ecological urban bathhouse from shipping containers in San Francisco. (more...) View the full article

As gold medals are being awarded to athletes at the Olympic games, we’ve made a new Pinterest board featuring all the golden design and architecture from the pages of Dezeen. Over 22,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more Golden stories on Dezeen » View the full article

Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has clad the facades of Solstice on the Park, a residential tower in Chicago designed by Studio Gang, in modular concrete panels. Read more

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

Chris Dyson Architects has replaced the rear of a Victorian house in east London with a two-storey extension clad in charred cedar (+ slideshow). (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

Swathes of ribbed concrete and glass form curvaceous walls and a spiralling walkway for this art faculty at a Tenerife university, designed by local studio GPY Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dark grey tiles, black and white paintwork, and leafy pot plants complete this minimalist apartment in Barcelona designed by Spanish architects RÄS studio. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are unsure if MVRDV's plan to cover the walls of a Dutch housing development in potted plants is wise. Read more

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior architect at MAD, which is currently working on designs for a George Lucas Museum in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Read more stories about MAD or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Following our interviews with architects Henry Goss and Ström Architects about their hyper-realistic architectural renderings, here are more images of buildings that could be mistaken for photographs. See all our stories about renderings » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Miel Arquitectos has added bright pops of colour to a Barcelona apartment that is tailored towards tourists. Read 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