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A cafe, playroom and gallery are tucked beneath the artificial topography of this undulating public square in Mexico by architect Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

Swedish designers Folkform have used 80-year-old samples of hardboard in these cabinets for Swedish interiors brand Svenskt Tenn. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week’s stories about hairstyles inspired by architectural forms (top right) and seats filled with hair swept from a salon floor have prompted this archive all about hair. See all the stories » (more…) View the full article

French architects Dumazer & Lafallisse have converted a former gallery in Paris into an optician’s. (more…) View the full article

One year ago a lot of architecture and design seemed to be centred around love and sex, as we featured a coin-operated wedding machine, a mask for clamping mouths together and a couple of architectural installations that resembled parts of the female anatomy. (more…) View the full article

Portuguese architects and hairdressers have collaborated on these coiffures inspired by architectural structures. (more…) View the full article

There’s been a bit of a re-use theme on Dezeen this week with seats made of hair, bowls made of money and buildings made of skips. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his top-secret design for the cauldron that will hold the London 2012 Olympic flame in this interview filmed at his ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

London-based architects Serie and Singapore architects Multiply have designed an extension to a law court in Singapore with terracotta-clad courtrooms stacked up inside a giant cage. (more…) View the full article

Next up in our coverage of London 2012 Olympic design is a 135-metre skyscraper by architects SOM full of apartments overlooking the Olympic park. (more…) View the full article

London designer Ron Arad has created a range of sunglasses and spectacle frames that can be adjusted to fit any face by sliding the lenses along an A-shaped wire over the nose. (more…) View the full article

This family house by architect Naoko Horibe features a traditional Japanese-style room with tatami mats inside a protruding, timber-clad mezzanine. (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: New Yorkers Asymptote Architecture are the latest firm to reveal designs for the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul and have proposed two skyscrapers connected by a bridge 125 metres up. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about his design for a riverboat in France in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick’s ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Hackney designers PearsonLloyd preview their workstations for office furniture brand Bene at Hackney House in Shoreditch tonight, with music by Dezeen Music Project. (more…) View the full article

Clumps of human hair are recycled as stuffing for two plastic pouffes by Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz. (more…) View the full article

This house in Argentina by local architects Arquinoma has a front door tall enough to let in a giraffe. (more…) View the full article

London-based Latvian designers Arthur Analts and Rudolph Strelis have made a series of bowls from shredded money. (more…) View the full article

Warmer weather is beckoning us outdoors so our latest Pinterest board features all the best courtyards from the pages of Dezeen. We’ve got over 10,000 followers on Pinterest now and you can follow us here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring courtyards on Dezeen » View the full article

This brick and copper church near Oslo by Norwegian studio Hansen/Bjørndal Architects has one end buried in a hillside and the other sticking in the air (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Beijing architects META-Project have completed an exhibition centre on the beach of a former fishing village in China that is now developing into a summer holiday destination (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks about his studio’s tradition of sending unusual handmade Christmas cards in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick’s exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

London College of Fashion graduate Ana Rajcevic has created a series of tusks, horns and spines for the human body. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have won a competition to design a children’s hospital and a teaching/research centre in Zurich, Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new to Dezeen Watch Store this week is this silicone version of the Vigorelli timepiece designed by Matteo Ragni for Lorenz: (more…) View the full article