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It was a busy time for architects OMA this week five years ago, as they released designs for major projects that included a large urban development in the United Arab Emirates (above) and a 300-metre skyscraper in Mexico City (below). (more…) View the full article

Glass-fronted apartments are set behind sheltered balconies at this concrete residential block in Mexico City by architects JSa (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Instantly generate your own iconic Swiss-style poster with this website by Californian graphic designer Ben DuVall and his brother Clark DuVall. (more…) View the full article

These tools by Royal College of Art graduate Cheng Guo are controlled by simple mouth movements like chewing and blowing (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This time last year designers were going to extreme lengths to devise and manufacture their projects, as an architecture graduate proposed hanging a skyscraper upside-down over a river (above) and another designer created stools using explosions (below). (more…) View the full article

These pieces of jewellery by Central Saint Martins graduate Stéphanie Van Zwam are made from plastic bubbles and tubes that float around the wearer’s body (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The rain is still pouring down this week and Londoners have become even more obsessed by the weather than usual, with Troika’s board that lets you compare the current situation with the day before (above) and Michael Robinson’s souvenir poster (below). (more…) View the full article

Californian architects amphibianArc have designed a shape-shifting “transformer building” for a Chinese machinery company, with a facade that flaps like the wings of a huge insect (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

As the tides erode the northern coast of New Zealand, this house on a sled by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan can be towed off the beach and out of harm’s way (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These half-plastic, half-wicker waste paper bins by German designer Cordula Kehrer for American brand Areaware are made with the Aeta people of the Philippines. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian designers Estudio Guto Requena used audio recorded on the streets of São Paulo to distort the shapes of these 3D-printed chairs (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London design studio Troika have been poking fun at the British obsession with the weather with their lighting installation in an east London park. (more…) View the full article

The last of the Ziiiro watches to be featured in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale is the Mercury watch. Rings of rotating comets display the time, like the Gravity watch. You can now buy Mercury in black and magenta for only £124 (UK and EU) or £103.33 (rest of the world). Buy now » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Shimmering brass walls surround this arts centre that Portuguese firm Pitagoras Arquitectos have just completed in Guimarães. (more…) View the full article

British designer Michael Robinson‘s topical posters celebrating this summer in London are available from Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2. Come down to our launch party tonight from 6-9pm and remember you can print off this flyer to get 10% off at the store! (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with “breathtaking” mountain lookouts (above) and includes interviews with Steven Holl and Jaime Hayon, plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 109 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

The surrounding countryside is projected onto the ceiling of this reed-covered tower that Hudson Architects and artist Ben Coode-Adams have installed in a field in Norfolk, England. (more…) View the full article

We’re having a party! Join us this evening to celebrate our Dezeen Super Store pop-up at 38 Monmouth Street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London WC2 from 6pm to 9pm. Sounds will be provided by Dezeen Music Project and Big Jambox. RSVP to office@dezeen.com. The store is open until 30 September 2012 so if you can’t make the party you can visit during the Olympics or the London Design Festival. Don’t forget to print out the flyer to get a 10% discount! View the full article

FreshBritain and Campaign created a pop-up store reminiscent of factory warehouses and stockrooms for shoe brand Dr. Martens ( + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen are giving readers a chance to win the pilot issue of Pages Of magazine as part of our series of features on new publishing ventures. (more…) View the full article

QR codes cover the exterior of this former mustard laboratory in Dijon that Dutch architects MVRDV have converted into a call centre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Three thin layers of wood have been overlaid to create this boxy bookcase by Dutch designer Gerard de Hoop. (more…) View the full article

Hong Kong brand Ziiiro‘s first watch design, Gravity, is now reduced by 20% as part of the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale. Like their Orbit design, also in the sale, Gravity doesn’t have hands but rotating comets tell the time. Available at the reduced price in blue or magenta, Gravity is now only £92 (UK and EU) or £76.67 (rest of the world). Get yours here » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Balconies of these two apartment blocks in northwest France by architect Philippe Gazeau protrude like a set of open drawers. (more…) View the full article

Pete Oyler of American design studio Assembly has created these stacking candle holders from aluminium and brass. (more…) View the full article