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Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Eindhoven, the ringing of an alarm clock triggers a chain of events that opens umbrellas, spins paper windmills, starts a fire and releases a set of parachuting toy animals. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction has begun on an aluminium-clad museum in Norway by Danish architecture studios COBE and Transform. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul, Korea, that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson created a fictional model of a home in Berlin for twentieth century writer Walter Benjamin, exhibited at Dezeen Platform last autumn. Here he explains the ideas behind his project. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish furniture brand IKEA have installed a temporary lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about kettles by famous designers as part of our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Dutch design brand Droog has opened a hotel in Amsterdam where guests who venture out from their rooms can attend lectures, visit exhibitions and shops or relax in a ”fairy-tale garden” without leaving the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: Dezeen editor Rose Etherington selects her top ten projects from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week, including a system for decontaminating polluted land using plants and a method for turning debris from demolished buildings into new construction materials. (more…) View the full article

A chequerboard of opaque panels and windows surrounds this school canteen in western Germany by SpreierTrenner Architekten (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: an exhibition of the Design Museum's permanent collection has opened at the museum in London. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob explains why YouTube movies of consumers ritualistically unpacking their purchases "bring a sharp eye to the designed world". (more...) View the full article

Sloping exhibition rooms fold around curvy courtyards and a fish pond at this art gallery in Beijing - the first completed project by new studio Daipu Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This holiday home in upstate New York by US firm Gluck+ features an elevated living room that hovers nine metres above the ground (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Californian designer Chad Wright has made a sandcastle mould of a typical American house to recreate post-war suburbia on the beach (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Products by young local designers are displayed against the rough ochre walls of this boutique in Katowice, Poland, designed Joanna Wołoszyn and Daria Barnaś (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a lead designer (interiors) to join Paul Smith, whose newly extended Albemarle Street store is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Belgian design studio Fou de Feu has created two collections of ceramics including vases shaped like soap bubbles. (more...) View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a meeting room in a London hotel where guests can relax beneath a canopy with an image of trees projected onto its surface (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lani Devine of Australian accessories label Her Royal Flyness has designed a colour-coordinated kit for jilted women, containing all the tools they need to take revenge on their ex-boyfriends in style. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2014: Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet has taken the silhouettes of famous modernist chairs and amalgamated them into the back of this bar stool. (more...) View the full article

Chunky wooden columns and beams support the sloping timber ceiling of this small pharmacy by Japanese studio Ninkipen! in the city of Ogaki (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Canadian studio Naturehumaine inserted a glass floor and skylight to draw sunlight through the interior of this two-storey house in Montreal, and reintroduced wooden boards to make a feature of the staircase. (more...) View the full article

Architect duo Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen built this seven-storey concrete tower in the Chilean countryside to house their own living quarters as well as a studio for their firm (photos by Cristobal Palma + movie). (more...) View the full article

Persian rug company Golran has commissioned London studio Raw Edges to create carpets with patterns that appear to change when viewed from different angles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian designers Paolo Ulian and Moreno Ratti have created a collection of prototype products made from unwanted marble tiles. (more...) View the full article