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World Architecture Festival 2012: architects Arcau won the civic and community category at the World Architecture Festival this week for a community building in the French town of Pornic that references traditional local storehouses for salt. (more…) View the full article

News: following this week’s news that the UK government is restricting curved and glass walls on new school buildings, Aberrant Architecture‘s Kevin Haley and David Chambers are urging the Department of Education to look to the standardised schools designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil in the 1980s, which the architects are presenting in the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: after featuring a Japanese home with four tiny houses inside (bottom left) this week, we’ve compiled all the projects we’ve published that include small houses sitting within larger ones. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: here’s a slideshow of images of the Fazenda Boa Vista Golf Clubhouse by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfield, which was named World’s Best Sport Building at the World Architecture Festival this week. (more…) View the full article

London designer Andy Martin has built a wooden road bicycle for Thonet using the steam-bending processes the German furniture company first employed in 1859 for its classic cafe chair. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: here’s a slideshow of the winner in the villa category at the World Architecture Festival, which is a house on a working sheep farm on North Bruny Island, Tasmania, by John Wardle Architects. (more…) View the full article

News: as a Chinese company announces plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in just seven months, Beijing Design Week creative director Aric Chen says that contemporary China should “slow down” and look to “craft thinking” to tackle both small and large-scale design challenges the country is facing. (more…) View the full article

This week the UK government’s new guidelines preventing any curved or glass walls on new schools in a bid to cut costs caused a furious reaction from our readers, who called the idea “idiotic”, a “very false economy” and “an absolute insult to the architecture, design and construction industry.” (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Wilkinson Eyre Architects‘ Paul Baker in this interview filmed just moments after the firm’s Cooled Conservatories for the Gardens by the Bay tropical gardens in Singapore was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival today. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: the Kallang River Bishan Park in Singapore by landscape designers Atelier Dreiseitl has been given the title Landscape of the Year at the World Architecture Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British designer Ross Lovegrove has installed a silver spaceship in the rafters of a railway station in Lille, France. (more…) View the full article

This week’s job of the week is a position as an architectural model maker at Stanton Williams. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Heart of Doha, a 31-hectare masterplan designed by AECOM for the gateway to Inner Doha has been named Future Project of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. (more…) View the full article

News: a Chinese company plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in just seven months using pre-fabricated components slotted together like a Meccano toy. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: the Cooled Conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects at the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore have been awarded the World Building of the Year prize at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: these clothes hangers by designer and recent graduate Lisa Marie Bengtsson use charcoal to soak up bad smells so clothes need washing less often (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: this mechanical contraption by artist Martin Smith and his design company Laikingland will wake you up by chirping like a bird (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: it’s day two of the World Architecture Festival in Singapore and today 17 more award winners have been announced, including a house for New Zealand, a school with caged balconies and three projects by architects Hassell. (more…) View the full article

To coincide with the final weeks of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, here’s an interview we filmed at the opening in May with Pierre de Meuron of architects Herzog & de Meuron, in which he talks to Dezeen about how the pavilion was realised in cork to appeal to all the senses and “not only your eyes”. (more…) View the full article

This house by Japanese architects a.a.+H has two roofs and four more tiny houses inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with our coverage of the World Architecture Festival in Singapore this week, including the award winners from the first day, plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 121 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

A tower of books is encased inside a glass pyramid at this public library that Dutch firm MVRDV have completed in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up has a stand at the World Architecture Festival, taking place in the Marina Bay Sands hotel and conference centre in Singapore until tomorrow. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’re giving readers a chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to the Memory Marathon, a series of talks and discussions taking place from 12 to 14 October close to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (above) in London’s Kensington Gardens. (more…) View the full article

Glass bottles rest on rows of hand-made iron nails along the walls of this Aesop skin and haircare shop in Paris by French designers Ciguë (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article