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Five years ago Dezeen travelled to Basel, Switzerland, for the annual Design Miami/Basel fair, where a host of designers including Martino Gamper, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas, Max Lamb and Kiki van Eijk were creating objects and furniture in front of visitors at the height of the fashion for design performances. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: stairs might be perfectly practical but moving from room to room via a skateboard, slide or climbing wall is far more exciting so here’s a roundup of homes and offices from the pages of Dezeen that feature extreme ways of getting around. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: a swimming pool, spa, cinema and games room will be hidden in the rock beneath the main cluster of buildings at this Norwegian hunting lodge and hotel by London architects Haptic. (more…) View the full article

Writer and artist Clo’e Floirat has sent us a series of comical-satirical drawings of venues for the London 2012 Olympics, including one of the “Awful Tower” representing the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit tower by Anish Kapoor as an Eiffel Tower tied in knots (above). (more…) View the full article

A few tons of concrete was all professional skateboarder Philipp Schuster needed to turn this derelict hunting lodge in Salzburg, Austria, into an indoor skate park. (more…) View the full article

Two laminated plywood shells slot together to form this chair by Berlin designer David Geckeler without any metal fixings. (more…) View the full article

This time last year Dezeen reported on the opening of a number of new museums around the world, including a transport museum with a zig-zagging roof designed by Zaha Hadid and a wave-shaped museum of the sea by Steven Holl. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us images of this house for a couple of art collectors and their children designed by São Paulo architect Isay Weinfeld. (more…) View the full article

The top stories on Dezeen this week are all about slides, skyscrapers and animal products. (more…) View the full article

Layers of sediment left by the gradual shift of China’s famous Yellow River were the inspiration behind the undulating facade of this arts centre that will be constructed near the city of Yinchuan later this year. (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: here’s yet another skyscraper proposal for the architectural zoo that is the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul – this time a 385-metre-high tower by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox with a vertiginous swimming pool sticking out two thirds of the way up. (more…) View the full article

Computer company Microsoft has joined Google and Lego in the trend for offices like playgrounds with their new Vienna base that includes a slide. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: this art gallery in Seoul by New York architects SO-IL is draped in a veil of chain mail. (more…) View the full article

This chicken coop by Swedish architect and designer Torsten Ottesjö is designed to look like the protective wing of a mother hen. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: architect Frank Gehry has inserted a theatre into the base of tower in New York City. (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter features readers’ opinions on the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a green HQ for the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund and shoes supposedly made of bio-engineered stingray skin (above). There’s also new jobs, competitions, interviews and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 104 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Slideshow: here are some photos by Julien Lanoo of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, including more pictures of the cork-covered interior plus dusky night shots. (more…) View the full article

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti have added a bleached larch extension onto the side of a 1930s house in Ljubljana designed by modernist architect Josip Costaperaria. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was unable to attend last week’s opening of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion that he designed in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron so he made this movie about the project instead. (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: Renzo Piano Building Workshop have sent us the first image of a 620-metre-tall tower they are designing for Seoul, South Korea. (more…) View the full article

When tasked with designing a water bottle for 100 year’s time, Tokyo designers Takram instead came up with artificial organs to help the body use water more efficiently as drinking water becomes scarce. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: following our earlier story about a university in the Moroccan desert with a sandy red exterior, here’s a school of technology in the nearby town of Guelmim with walls covered in the same grainy render. (more…) View the full article

Competition: bi-monthly architecture magazine Architectural Design (AD) is now available on the iPad and we’ve teamed up with them to give away a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about redesigning the iconic red double-decker bus for London in this interview filmed by Dezeen at the preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

There are 88 ancient Buddhist temples along the 670-mile Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan – but only one lucky priest has a new house by Tokyo studio Zai Shirakawa Architects & Associates. (more…) View the full article