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The Changing Room is a space at Dezeen Super Store that will be given over to a different designer each week to showcase their products or artwork, and this week we are featuring Dalston designer Naomi Paul‘s latest crochet pendant lamps. (more…) View the full article

Architects and designers’ obsessions with concrete were epitomised by the projects we featured this time last year, such as this house that has concrete walls both inside and out (above). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Thomas Heatherwick has designed a distillery and visitor centre for gin brand Bombay Sapphire at an abandoned mill in Hampshire, England. (more…) View the full article

London remained in the spotlight this week, as everyone was talking about Thomas Heatherwick’s design for the Olympic Cauldron (above), which was finally unveiled at the opening ceremony of the games on Friday night. (more…) View the full article

Movie: as part of the build-up to an exclusive event we’re hosting at the Nike+ House of Innovation next week, we’ve filmed a series of movies with Nike‘s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti about the brand’s latest products. First up is an ultra-light speed-suit developed to move faster than skin. (more…) View the full article

Sports brand Nike has opened a temporary shop showcasing the future of sport at Selfridges in London and Dezeen readers can win one of 25 pairs of tickets to an exclusive event we’re hosting there next Thursday, featuring Nike‘s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti in conversation with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the brand’s latest innovations for the London 2012 games. (more…) View the full article

It’s the last day of our Dezeen Olympics and surprisingly all of the most pinned stories about the events of London 2012 aren’t directly related to the actual games, such as these Jaffa Cakes nibbled into British icons and landmarks that take the gold medal. (more…) View the full article

August is London design month at Dezeen Super Store and the first of our featured products are these stick-on paper eyelashes that depict some of the city’s famous landmarks. (more…) View the full article

This gabled house in Italy by Austrian architects Casati has stripy wooden walls on the outside and bumpy limestone walls on the inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This scale-covered cabinet by Swedish designer Jenny Ekdahl is intended to help victims of natural disasters to recover from their traumatic experiences. (more…) View the full article

This bright white wedge-shaped house by Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos thrusts out from the rock face behind it in the valley town of Ayora, near Valencia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Narrow slits provide entrances to this circular pavilion by Belgian artist Wesley Meuris outside the Flemish town of Borgloon. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: “Software is the most important material we have come across in the last 100 years,” said Matt Jones of London studio BERG at yesterday’s Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions with some of the most interesting designers and architects from Dezeen’s local borough, curated in collaboration with Beatrice Galilee. (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with the popular yet controversial Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick (above) plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 112 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a streamlined concrete and glass building for three government departments in Montpellier, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The London 2012 Olympics continue and so do the Dezeen Olympics, awarding medals to the design and architecture of the games. Today’s competition is for the most tweeted stories about our coverage and we give the gold medal to Banksy’s Olympic-inspired street art. (more…) View the full article

Movie: architect Piers Gough of CZWG and structural engineer Hanif Kara explain their design for Canada Water Library, a bronzed, hexagonal building on a constrained site in south London, in this movie by filmmakers Living Projects. (more…) View the full article

Industrial design graduate Lisa Frode has created a desk with a fabric cover, inspired by the way aeroplane cabins can be divided with curtains to create different rooms during the flight. (more…) View the full article

Ukrainian designer Vasiliy Butenko has made a series of pendant lamps by wrapping cotton rope around plastic bottles. (more…) View the full article

A multi-faceted gold block dominates this perfumery in Wrocław by Polish interior designers Theza. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architects OMA are developing a modular display system for the stores of American accessories brand Coach. (more…) View the full article

The wonky look of this chair by Danish designer Rasmus B. Fex actually makes it stronger. (more…) View the full article

Today we are awarding medals to the designs and architecture of the London 2012 Olympics that received the most likes on Facebook, and Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre takes the gold medal with over 5000. (more…) View the full article

Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has designed a skyscraper for Singapore that looks like a cactus. (more…) View the full article

These tree house-like cabins by Thai designer Worapong Manupipatpong are built up around the column of a building rather than over the branches of a tree. (more…) View the full article