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A theatre in Belfast with a faceted timber interior is another of the six buildings shortlisted for the 2012 Stirling Prize and was designed by Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Lee Broom has filled a room in a London mansion with studded furniture to host visting business leaders during the Olympic games. (more…) View the full article

Movie: shadows dance across the surface of Kenzo Tange’s 1964 Olympic stadium in Tokyo in this animation by graduate design students at Harvard University. (more…) View the full article

Shanghai architects Polifactory have developed a concept for a rammed earth house that generates energy from a lake on its roof. (more…) View the full article

This young writers’ workshop in Sydney by architects LAVA is parading as an embassy for Martians on earth (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK designers Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five prints of a fictional map that features locations named after film titles. (more…) View the full article

This cutlery by Italian designer Gio Tirotto looks more like a set of workshop tools. (more…) View the full article

Timber batons create geometric patterns across the exterior of this houseboat in Amsterdam by architects Framework Architecten and Studio Prototype. (more…) View the full article

This combined champagne and canapé holder by Belgian designer Vincent Olm can be inverted to stand upright on a table top. (more…) View the full article

These hand-drawn illustrations by Hackney design studio Something & Son explain the designs for a temporary spa that opens tomorrow in Barking, east London. (more…) View the full article

The OMA-designed headquarters for the Rothschild Bank in London is one of the six buildings shortlisted for the 2012 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milk flows into the handle of this cup by Barcelona designers ENTLO.1A so large cookies can be dunked in one piece. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with BIG and Wilkinson Eyre, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Habitat, Hackett and more… (more…) View the full article

The charred exterior of this temporary pavilion in Bergen, Norway, references 16 major fires that have taken place in the city since the twelfth century. (more…) View the full article

French artist Etienne Gros has nipped and tucked blocks of soft foam to make squidgy nude sculptures. (more…) View the full article

French designer Patrick Norguet has designed a reusable cup for McDonald’s that makes scalding hot coffee easier to hold. (more…) View the full article

One storey hangs precariously over the other at this isolated hilltop house in Australia by architects Denton Corker Marshall. (more…) View the full article

The staircase in this west London house by Tigg Coll Architects has a glass balustrade and open treads to allow light to flood through from above (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Following a recent spell of weather-related projects, we’ve compiled a new Pinterest board featuring all the sun, rain, snow and fog from the pages of Dezeen. Over 21,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring weather on Dezeen » View the full article

German designer Valentin Loellmann used hazel branches to create the knobbly legs of these benches, tables and stools. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: six buildings have been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, including the London Olympic Stadium by Populous (above) and two projects by OMA. (more…) View the full article

Museums, galleries, exhibitions and installations were in the news this week five years ago, as Coop Himmelb(l)au’s extension to the Akron Art Museum opened in Ohio (above) and the winner of a competition to design a museum dedicated to the ice age (below) was announced for Siberia. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: for those wishing to escape a wet summer, here’s a round-up of all the holiday houses featured on Dezeen to help you imagine the perfect retreat. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

London studio David Kohn Architects has created an arts venue in a former sweet factory on the edge of the Olympic park. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian studio 20.87 has used plastic panels and LED lighting to transform an old house in São Paulo into a giant lamp (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article