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In the first of three movies filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Reinier de Graf of OMA talks about Pimlico School, a brutalist building in London that was demolished last year and which features in OMA’s Public Works exhibition of “masterpieces by bureaucrats” at the biennale. (more…) View the full article

Slovenian architects Kombinat have transformed a gloomy Alpine chalet into a contemporary home with concrete wings and timber shutters like a sliding puzzle (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has made a radio from an electronic circuit board that’s arranged to look like the London tube map. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Marc Newson, UNStudio, and Stanton Williams, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Studio Egret West, HawkinsBrown and more… (more…) View the full article

A white desk folds up the wall and across the ceiling like a crumpled aeroplane wing in this apartment in Seoul by South Korean design firm AnLstudio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have completed a school for hotel management in Montepellier, France, clad in anodized aluminum triangles and punctured by 5000 unique triangular windows. (more…) View the full article

This money box by London designer Sebastian Bergne displays your savings on the wall like a picture. (more…) View the full article

Industrial designer Bill Moggridge, who created the first laptop computer, co-founded global design company IDEO and more recently was director of the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York, has died aged 69. (more…) View the full article

Cardboard tubes divide up an old factory in Melbourne to create new gentlemen’s outfitters Epatant, founded by Dennis Paphitis and Lachlan Smeeton. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: we’ve published a few buildings and interiors made of bamboo recently so we thought it was time to round up all our stories that feature the famously fast-growing material. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Eight huge wings resembling a cluster of ducks’ feet form the roof of this theatre in Wuxi, to the west of Shanghai, designed by Finnish practice PES-Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A covered courtyard has been inserted into the side of this Kurashiki house by Japanese firm TT Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

More bamboo: this floating tea house in Yangzhou, by Chinese architects HWCD Associates, features brick rooms linked by louvred bamboo corridors and brises soleil. (more…) View the full article

A pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups by east London designer Paul Cocksedge is the next piece for the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Thousands of bamboo rods hang from the ceiling like stalactites to divide the space inside this Bangkok hair salon by Thai designer Nattapon Klinsuwan of NKDW. (more…) View the full article

It’s been a week of unfortunate likenesses for architecture on Dezeen with RMJM’s “big pants” tower for China (above) followed by the “big sink” extension to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (below). (more…) View the full article

To conclude our series on designs at the London 2012 Paralympics we’re focussing on the most talked-about equipment used at the games – carbon-fibre prosthetic blades inspired by the hind legs of a cheetah. (more…) View the full article

In case you missed it yesterday, designer Dominic Wilcox has created an animation that links together some of his illustrations of absurd inventions, including a reverse bungee jump (above). (more…) View the full article

German artist Hendrik Beikirch has painted a 70-metre-high mural of a fisherman a few blocks away from Daniel Libeskind’s Haeundae I’Park skyscrapers in Busan, South Korea (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The copper tubes that branch across the walls and ceiling of this Amsterdam barber shop by Ard Hoksbergen carry both water and electricity (though not in the same pipes). (more…) View the full article

Two ladders are joined by hidden hinges to create this adaptable slimline coat rack by Taiwanese designer Yenwen Tseng. (more…) View the full article

Interior designer Matteo Bianchi has installed a customised retro jukebox in the window of this estate agents in north London. (more…) View the full article

Benthem Crouwel Architects have completed the new extension to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which looks rather like the underside of a kitchen sink (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and designer Dominic Wilcox have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new book that features over one hundred drawings of his “odd yet strangely logical” inventions (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Discus-thrower Derek Derenalagi competes using a custom frame that’s specially designed to meet strict rules for Paralympic athletics, which state that any equipment can be used so long as he can get set up and ready to compete within 60 seconds. (more…) View the full article