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A puppet pops out from the pocket of this tote bag by Japanese designers Nendo. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Spain’s economy may be in tatters but that hasn’t stopped it opening a raft of impressive public buildings in towns, cities and even remote villages over the past year. Amid bailouts and claims that extravagant architectural projects have helped cause the problems, here’s a look back at the amazing Spanish museums, town halls, markets, auditoriums, bridges and even railway control centres featured on Dezeen recently. (more…) View the full article

A glazed tower sits atop the volcanic stone facade of this performing arts centre in Belfast to create a beacon above the surrounding rooftops. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio mA-style architects has completed a metal-clad house with a smaller wooden house inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen have teamed up with Danish audio company Libratone to give away a Libratone Live special edition speaker customised by German designer Lizzy Courage (+movie). (more…) View the full article

The shooting galleries for the London 2012 Olympic games are covered in spots that look the suckers of an octopus’ tentacles. (more…) View the full article

Projects by this year’s W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winners – Markus Kayser, Philippe Malouin and Tom Foulsham – have been unveiled at Design Miami/Basel. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this montage of highlights that Dezeen made for Clerkenwell Design Week, designers including Ross Lovegrove, BarberOsgerby and the Jaguar design team introduce their projects at the event. (more…) View the full article

Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has designed a wooden bench with two fat cylindrical legs that are laid on their sides like logs. (more…) View the full article

German photographer Menno Aden has shot a series of Berlin interiors from an unconventional viewpoint: looking down from the ceiling. (more…) View the full article

Architects Stickyline have created a range of paper helmets shaped like iconic buildings from the Hong Kong skyline. (more…) View the full article

Hexagonal tiles create honeycomb-patterned floors inside this nineteenth century Italian house refurbished by architects Grooppo. (more…) View the full article

Madrid studios Mi5 Arquitectos and PKMN Architectures have built a half-submerged culture and leisure centre in the middle of a public square in Teruel, Spain (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Korean architects Khan Project have designed themselves a laboratory-like studio in Seoul where staff wear doctors’ gowns and walk barefoot (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Charcoal inserts purify tap water in these blown-glass containers by Italian designers Formafantasma (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This towel rail by Japanese designer Hioomi Tahara comprises a rope wound around wall-mounted sticks. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: architects Cristian Panaite and Katrien Devreese have inserted a stark, geometric doctor’s surgery into a row of traditional brick houses in a quiet village in rural Belgium. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon and Camron PR, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Paul Cocksedge Studio, Design Council, Form Us With Love and more… (more…) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about designing the UK pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 in this interview filmed by Dezeen at his exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

A white concrete extension flows over the top of a former brewery in Zurich to give Swiss arts organisation the Kunsthalle Zürich its first permanent home. (more…) View the full article

The craggy rocks of the nearby Mediterranean shore inspired the faceted form of this auditorium building in Alicante, designed by Spanish architect Francisco Mangado. (more…) View the full article

Cheap materials combine with references to American pop culture in the interior of this small pizzeria by Tel Aviv-based Studio OPA. (more…) View the full article

Designers Rikkert Paauw and Jet van Zwieten of Foundation Projects transform refuse skips and their contents into small buildings. (more…) View the full article

Browse the best boutiques, bakeries, bookstores and florists from the pages of Dezeen in our latest new board on Pinterest that’s all about shops. And if that gets you in the mood for some retail therapy, head over to our very own Dezeen Watch Store online shop. We’ve got nearly 10,000 followers on Pinterest now and you can join in here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See stories about shops on Dezeen » View the full article

Rhode Island School of Design graduate George Coffin has designed a collection of products that add twists to familiar objects, including this watering can with a bent wood handle. There are also plungers combined with ornately turned handles or a walking stick, and more walking sticks with rubber wedges at the bottom to form door stops. Pieces of plastic bottles have been used to cast concrete fittings for pendant lamps and the cord of a coordinating desk lamp is held in place by notches in a counterbalanced wooden frame. Here are a couple of lines of explanation from Coffin: I’m a recent graduate from the Furniture Design department at The Rhode Island School …