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The latest issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter is out now and leads with a concrete house with a faceted facade like a rock face, which readers would rather see applied to a nightclub or church. As always, this Dezen Mail includes the latest jobs, music, movies, stories and comments from the past week on Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 102 » Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

This Tokyo house by Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design has a climbing wall and ladders, in case the owners get bored of using the stairs. (more…) View the full article

French architects Djuric Tardio have designed a wooden tipi that could be mass-produced to provide miniature nurseries in the parks of Paris. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Hackney entrepreneur Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh talks about inventing her fix-anything, air-curing rubber called Sugru and some of the imaginative ways people have put it to use. (more…) View the full article

Architect Matteo Inches has completely rebuilt the inside of an old farm building in the Swiss town of Vacallo to create a house for the local mayor. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: these chandeliers by Hackney designer Stuart Haygarth were painstakingly assembled from found objects like discarded spectacles, plastic bottles or party-poppers. (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has completed a New York store for footwear brand Camper where all the shoes are hidden away. (more…) View the full article

Skateboarding star Pierre Andre Senizergues wanted to skate over every surface of his new house, inside and out, so he turned to Californian architect Francois Perrin plus designer and skater Gil Lebon Delapoint to make it a reality. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: London designers Doshi Levien have designed an armchair and sofa for Italian brand Moroso that’s inspired by Modernist architect Le Corbusier and the Indian city of Chandigarh that he masterplanned in the 1950s. (more…) View the full article

Figures appear as ghostly silhouettes behind the translucent white fabric that partitions these New York offices by architects SO-IL. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this movie produced by Dezeen Studio, Hackney architects Patrick Theis and Soraya Kahn explain the ideas behind the forms and detailing of their combined home, studio and gallery and discuss how they feel the building responds to its location in Shoreditch, the “naughty relative” of the City of London. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Clerkenwell Design Week is underway and visitors to the main venue arrive through an archway clad in 20,000 wooden hexagons by London designer Giles Miller. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designers Daphna Laurens have created a series of storage containers that partially conceal their contents behind metal grilles. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: granite bleachers climb the exterior of this sports centre in Portugal by architects Barbosa & Guimarães, while a cantilevered, rusted-steel cafe looms over its entrance (photographs by José Campos). (more…) View the full article

When asked to draw up plans for a cycle-hire shop in southern China, Dutch studio NL Architects thought it would be fun to put a velodrome on the roof. (more…) View the full article

This house in Osaka by architects Suga Atelier has a faceted concrete exterior that looks like a rockface. (more…) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created an aerosol spray that lets users enjoy alcohol without getting drunk or hungover. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: when Johanna Agerman-Ross from Disegno magazine came into Dezeen Studio in Milan, she spoke to us about the future of print magazines and current design trends. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: illustration collective Le Gun have collaborated with footwear designer Tracey Neuls to create a range of shoes inspired by items discovered inside a suitcase in a Hackney basement. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Dezeen are media partners for the London series of Pecha Kucha talks, and the next one takes place on Thursday 24 May at Clerkenwell Design Week with speakers including architect Nigel Coates, architecture publisher Peter Murray and designer Benjamin Hubert. (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: Chicago architects Murphy/Jahn have designed two towers under one roof for the western side of South Korea’s new commercial centre, the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new to Dezeen Watch Store this week is this chronograph addition to the Iconograph range by Berlin industrial designer Werner Aisslinger for Italian brand Lorenz. The watch is available to buy online or at our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up shop at Clerkenwell Design Week from 22 to 24 May. (more…) View the full article

This bookcase without shelves by Tokyo designer Chicako Ibaraki is now in production with Italian brand Casamania. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Form Us With Love, and Faye Toogood, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Edmund Sumner, Dezeen and more… (more…) View the full article