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Architect Norman Foster (above) has designed the entrance to the Corderie Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the names of generations of architects, critics, designers, landscape architects and planners are projected over the floor, columns and visitors. (more…) View the full article

Interlinking ceramic cups with spouts that allow tea to flow from one to the other are on display in The Changing Room, a former changing space at Dezeen Super Store. (more…) View the full article

Reykjavik designer Katrin Olina has created a range of furniture made of bent steel tubes and a rug depicting a fictional magician. (more…) View the full article

Here are some photos of Zaha Hadid’s installation in the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale, comprising a huge pleated metal funnel. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen is in Venice this week for the preview of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until 25 November. See our photos from the first day on Facebook, see all our preview stories here and watch our interview with director of the biennale David Chipperfield here, in which he urges the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with” in order to avoid becoming merely “urban decorators.” Above image: Vessel by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects in the Arsenale View the full article

Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has extended a house in a Sydney suburb so that it looks like a doll’s house with the back wall taken off (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry (pictured above, left) is designing the new campus for social media giant Facebook, which claims it will be the largest open-plan office in the world. (more…) View the full article

OMA present an archive of buildings designed by European local authority architects in the 1960s and 70s at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, which opens to the public this week. (more…) View the full article

In the next movie in our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about iconic kitchenware products in their collection. (more…) View the full article

A mysterious black gable frames two new bedrooms on the roof of a house in the outskirts of Paris. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale isn’t about the genius of any single architects, director David Chipperfield explained today at the press preview of the exhibition. (more…) View the full article

This woodland observatory by architecture collective CLP Architectes is a patchwork of square wooden panels and windows. (more…) View the full article

If carrying a wet papery packet home puts you off fresh fish from the counter at your local supermarket, London designers PostlerFerguson have designed a series of sleek sleeves to promote the less endangered types. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, and Sruli Recht, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marc Newson, Universal Design Studio, FormFormForm and more.. (more…) View the full article

Mexican industrial designer Jorge Diego Etienne has created a series of small tables that look like cages. (more…) View the full article

Rotterdam-based design studio Atelier Van Lieshout will present new sculptures in bronze at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London this autumn. (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

In the third movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week pop-up shops, Etsy UK marketing manager Georgina Blain explains how their global online marketplace is helping designers such as Sandra Dieckmann (work pictured) to expand from a local customer base to promote and sell their work internationally. (more…) View the full article

Danish designer Maria Bruun has created a trio of modular cabinets that can be tidily tucked around one another. (more…) View the full article

Architect Daniel Libeskind has been selected to design a peace centre on the site of the notorious former Maze prison in Northern Ireland, according to the BBC. (more…) View the full article

As temperatures soared in London earlier this week we all wanted to go for a dip, but none of the local facilities quite matched up to the pools that feature on our latest Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See all the stories that feature pools on Dezeen » View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week one of our most popular stories was about a robot that builds architectural structures from sand (bottom left), so our latest archive is all about sand. See all all the stories » See all the archive stories » View the full article

This concrete house in Switzerland by Basel studio on3 architekten has gabled end walls that appear folded along central vertical seams (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In the second movie in our series we filmed at pop-up stores during Clerkenwell Design Week, UK director of self-publishing platform Blurb Teresa Pereira talks about how designers are bypassing traditional publishing houses and using the internet to create, publish and sell their own books. (more…) View the full article

Ploypan Theerachai of THINKK Studio has designed a series of three upholstered space dividers weighted down with marble slabs. (more…) View the full article