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Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded at Object Rotterdam last month, fair director Fons Hof, gallerist Wilpert Dreesmann of Particles, and Dutch designers Kiki van Eijk and Aldo Bakker talk about design in the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In an interview published here as part of VDF x Alcova, German siblings Merle and Till Richter of Sammlung Walter spoke about how they see their fashion and furniture pieces less like products and more like experiments in the "art of fabrication". Read more View the full article

Paterson Architects of Scotland have completed a timber-clad extension to a farm cottage on a hill in Aberdeenshire. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Norwegian designers Daniel Rybakken and Andreas Engesvik presented a lamp filtered through layers of coloured screens in Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with designers Hyperakt to offer our readers the chance to win one of five World Cup Radial Bracket prints designed by the New York studio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These models by New York studio Boym Partners are used to unlock and download DJ Matthew Dear’s latest album, entitled Black City, and you can download a free track from the album here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Johnny Selman of San Francisco is designing a poster a day for 365 days based on a headline taken from the BBC News website. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Hoz Fontán Arquitectos have completed this rectangular office tower in Irun, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Geneva studio Clavienrossier created this home in the Swiss Alps by adding two tinted concrete volumes atop the remains of a stone house and adjacent barn. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo present new work at Art Stage gallery in Singapore this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with designers Benjamin Hubert and Acconci Studio of New York, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Hussein Chalayan, MAD, the Design Museum and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we have teamed up with The Architecture Foundation in London to give away five copies of their book Union Street Urban Orchard, which charts the transformation of a disused London plot into a public garden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the popularity of our story on the Barceloneta Market by MiAS Architects (bottom left), we’ve compiled all our articles on markets from the Dezeen Archives. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tiled surfaces, scientific apparatus and plastic curtains turn this Paris cafe into a coffee laboratory. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Jean-Baptiste Bouvet has completed a hillside swimming pool that steps down to a terrace overlooking the scenic French landscape. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Czech designer Maxim Velčovský presents a series of containers made from semi-finished iron piping at Mint in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jars of tea and second-hand books are separated in stacked wooden cubes at a Taipei teahouse. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we celebrated our fifth birthday! We picked some of our favourite parties, stories and projects since 2006 and published a selection of the lovely tweets we received. Meanwhile, Foster + Partners designed a glossy production facility for supercar brand McLaren, new images of Daniel Libeskind’s museum in Dresden provoked more negative responses and one reader said a border checkpoint by Berlin architect J. Mayer H. looks “like a disfigured 1960′s spaceship with a caravan on top.” Japanese designers Nendo created an interior full of fake doors for a boutique in Kyoto and a sunken bridge that traverses the moat of a Dutch fort received reviews such as…

This week Steven Holl was announced as the winner of this year’s AIA Gold Medal, Danish studio BIG designed another building-cum-ski-slope and MAD released photos of their recently completed “otherworldly” museum in the Gobi desert. Over on Dezeen Screen Norman Foster talks about the legacy of Buckminster Fuller and Konstantin Grcic tells us about his Cape sofa in our series of movies from Qubique. Our series of Dezeen Talks at the Inside awards continues with an office arranged like a barcode, an apartment in a former grocery warehouse and a controversial airport terminal. Meanwhile Grafik magazine closed again, retail expert Mary Portas published a report on the fut…

Threads of plastic hang like hair from the ceiling of this dark beauty salon in Belgrade, Serbia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has completed a New York store for footwear brand Camper where all the shoes are hidden away. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Marcel Wanders and Camron PR, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Starbucks, Aesop and more… (more…) View the full article

Shanghai architects Polifactory have developed a concept for a rammed earth house that generates energy from a lake on its roof. (more…) View the full article

Italian architect Enrico Scaramellini squeezed this narrow holiday house into the passageway between two farm buildings in the Alpine countryside of northern Italy. (more…) View the full article

As Peter Zumthor has this week been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture, here’s another chance to watch the movie interview Dezeen filmed with him last summer, in which he told us “I’m a passionate architect and I think it’s a beautiful profession.” (more…) View the full article