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The series of square waterfalls at the memorial in the footprints of the World Trade Centre buildings (above) is just one of many projects with square or cube-shaped features we published this time last year. (more…) View the full article

The floors and ceilings are covered in the same boards in this tiny Tokyo apartment renovated by Japanese architects TANK. (more…) View the full article

It’s been a good week for Japanese houses on Dezeen, including one shaped like an arrow pointing at the sky (above). (more…) View the full article

With the Venice Architecture Biennale opening next week, here’s a full transcript of our interview with its director David Chipperfield, who explains the thinking behind this year’s theme, Common Ground. Chipperfield stresses the need for the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with.” Otherwise he says, architects risk being relegated to being “urban decorators.” (more…) View the full article

Ta-da! We’ve completely overhauled our notoriously rusty site search using Google Custom Search technology and it’s now pretty amazing, if we may say so. As well as being a gazillion times faster and more accurate, it now features thumbnail images, a dedicated image search facility and the option to search by relevance or date. Give it a test-drive using the search box at the very top right of the site, or use the little magic box below… View the full article

Prints of drawings by London designer Dominic Wilcox are available at Dezeen Super Store as part of London design month. (more…) View the full article

In the first of three interviews Dezeen filmed at pop-up shops during Clerkenwell Design Week this year, Theo founder and Pigeon Light (above) producer Thorsten van Elten explains how the internet is changing the way design is sold (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

New York artist Nova Jiang has created a mechanical maze that rearranges itself as you move through it (+movie). (more…) View the full article

An exhibition of paintings, furniture and installations by Zaha Hadid goes on show at the Ivorypress Space gallery in Madrid this September. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen is looking for designers and other creatives to participate in a series of live events we’re hosting at 100% Design in London from 19-22 September. (more…) View the full article

Vertiginous swimming pools will cantilever like diving boards from every apartment in this tower proposed for Lima, Peru, by Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

Paralympic athletes headed for London 2012 have inspired transport design studio Priestmangoode to create a conceptual airline seat with a detachable wheelchair. (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail leads with the Porsche Pavilion at a German theme park that’s been likened to Apple’s Magic Mouse (above), plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 115 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This series of hand drawings by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Ned Scott presents a science-fiction world in which London grows a jungle of crops for fuel and food next to Buckingham Palace. (more…) View the full article

The skinny west wing of this Tokyo house by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects is nine metres high, but less than two metres wide. (more…) View the full article

Sheets of tarpaulin roll up to reveal shelves for pots and condiments at a Seoul restaurant inspired by street food stalls by Lim Tae Hee Design Studio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London studio FAT will create an exhibition dedicated to architectural copying inside a 5-metre-high model of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 next week. (more…) View the full article

Courtyard gardens bite through the walls of this cafe in Japan by Tokyo studio Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is available to download from the app store and features interviews filmed by Dezeen, such as this one in which Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic describes the evolution of telephone design. (more…) View the full article

Students from Barcelona’s Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia have built a robotic 3D printer that creates architectural structures from sand or soil (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This small faceted house by Japanese studios D.I.G Architects and Nawakenji-m is embedded in a steep slope overlooking the city of Nagoya (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The square windows and mansard roof silhouette of this Bavarian townhouse by German architects SoHo Architektur are an echo of the building that formerly occupied the site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Wooden louvres mask the facade of this apartment block in South Korea by local studio Smart Architecture. (more…) View the full article

These felt candle holders by Amsterdam designer Siba Sahabi are inspired by the colours and silhouettes of Istanbul’s skyline at dusk. (more…) View the full article

Thai architects Architectkidd built an outdoor shower room behind wooden screens on the balcony of this renovated apartment in Bangkok (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article