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The timber-framed rooms of this house in Osaka prefacture by Japanese architects Suga Atelier are on show to the street though a transparent facade. (more…) View the full article

Drivers along a coastal road in Iceland can now stop at a curved concrete service station styled like an American diner by architects KRADS of Iceland and Denmark. (more…) View the full article

Illuminated installations inspired by the structures of microorganisms were created for the BUGA festival in Germany by Stoke Newington design studio Loop.pH. (more…) View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel has renovated a nineteenth century brewery in Barcelona to make way for restaurants, bars, a bakery and a museum. (more…) View the full article

Wall panels and shelves in this north London design shop are made from reclaimed floorboards and scaffolding planks. (more…) View the full article

These ceiling lights by Seattle design studio Graypants are made from salvaged remnants of corrugated cardboard. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: new Royal College of Art dean of architecture Alex de Rijke will steer students away from proposing unbuildable “paper architecture” and instead focus on how their ideas could be built (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Check out the best images of concrete from Dezeen on our latest Pinterest board. Over 17,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring concrete on Dezeen » View the full article

Architects Colboc Franzen & Associés have masked the facade and balconies of three apartment blocks in the south of France behind curved galvanised-steel grids. (more…) View the full article

This week five years ago fashion projects were catching our attention, including garments based on the inkblot patterns of the Rorschach psychological test and polo shirts covered in a plastic crocodile skin. We also featured limited edition jewellery pieces by designers Marcel Wanders and Arik Levy, which followed the collection of sportswear Levy had launched the week before. Also that week, architects Herzog & de Meuron revealed images of the VitraHaus, a furniture showroom of five stacked barns that was completed three years later. See all our stories from July 2007 » View the full article

Barcelona graphic design company Lo Siento has created a set of sculptural letters that can be read from all sides (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Super Store is now open at 38 Monmouth Street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London. The micro-department store brings together our designer watch boutique Dezeen Watch Store, our pop-up design concept The Temporium and our Designed in Hackney Shop so drop by if you’re in town! Dezeen Super Store 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 1 July – 30 September 2012 Monday to Saturday: 11am to 7pm Sunday: 11am to 5pm View the full article

Dezeen archive: we’ve noticed a lot of parasitic architecture so here’s a selection of buildings on Dezeen that sit, lean or cling on to others. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Test tubes of olive oil line one wall of this high-tech workshop designed for Michelin-starred chef Paco Roncero by Spanish studio Carmen Baselga Taller de Proyectos. (more…) View the full article

Turkish designer Yigit Ozer has created a range of three dimensional wall tiles for ceramic company Kutahya Seramik. (more…) View the full article

This time last year we featured projects constructed from all kinds of unusual materials, including a car made of cartilage that generates its own fuel from algae, pencils created from workshop dust and a table made from polystyrene steamed inside fabric moulds. Balsa wood was the material graduate Ki Hyun Kim used to construct a dining chair that weighs just 1.3 kilograms and concrete proved popular as usual in our stories about some very heavy vases and a house that resembles a half-submerged submarine. Meanwhile, toilets became a talking point after we featured some tree-mounted urinals at a music festival, leading us to count down our top ten stories about loos.…

Here are the first official photographs of Wendy, the giant blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture that has been installed in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen we’ve featured a drive-through airport, a report on the next industrial revolution and two ways to tackle cancer. (more…) View the full article

This mobile pavilion for a travelling chef by Barcelona studio Rodero Beggiao Architects will comprise two wedge-shaped modules that can be reconfigured to suit each new home. (more…) View the full article

Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel has created two new typefaces for London type company The Foundry, based on his work for exhibition catalogues and posters from the 1960s and 1970s. (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. (more…) View the full article

Thin layers are gradually shaved away from a cylindrical block of chocolate to reveal the embedded geometric patterns in this installation by Dutch designer Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has fitted out a restaurant at the top of the tallest skyscraper in central Paris. (more…) View the full article

This snaking concrete pavilion by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects winds down from a road to the beach along the edge of the Arctic Ocean. (more…) View the full article

Earlier today we featured objects made of tarmac. Now here’s some furniture made of bricks by designers Rachel Griffin of Earnest Studio in Rotterdam and Emilie Pallard of Eindhoven. (more…) View the full article