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German designer Peter Böckel will present this combined book shelf and lamp at DMY Berlin this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are the first official photographs of the completed 2011 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which was unveiled today by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This dreamy holiday bunker designed by Portuguese studio Phyd Arquitectura is sunk into the landscape, overlooking the hills near Torres Novas. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Square windows with various dimensions sporadically puncture the plain brick exterior of a community centre in Hungary. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slanted walls pierced by square peepholes bisect this house in Osaka by architects ALPHAville. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a meals-on-wheels service that brings home cooked food to elderly residents is one of three projects that will share £100,000 awarded by the UK government’s Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) to the winners of a competition that called for innovative ideas to help elderly citizens live more independent lives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects Christ Christ have added box-like rooms and an outdoor cinema to the roof of a house in Wiesbaden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has launched a camera for Japanese brand Pentax. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Narrow glass openings provide glimpses through the rampart-like facade of this property showroom in Singapore by architects Ministry of Design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid will present a pleated metal funnel at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 later this month (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The buildings of Lyon are pulled apart in these impossible photographs by Norwegian artist Espen Dietrichson. (more…) View the full article

London architecture team Softkill Design has designed a conceptual house that would be 3D printed in sections in a factory and fitted together on site (+ interview transcript). (more…) View the full article

Japanese firm Torafu Architects renovated this auto repair shop in Tokyo to make it look as sleek as a car showroom (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cologne 2013: Berlin design studio Osko+Deichmann has launched a chair inspired by cooked spaghetti for French brand Ligne Roset. (more...) View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Eilish Macintosh showed outfits tied up with knotted lengths of rope at the institution's show during London Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

This family of concrete artist and designers' studios by Chinese office AZL Architects is located amongst the marshes of the Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our pick of the ads on Dezeen Jobs this week is an opportunity for designers to work with Neri&Hu at its London, New York and Shanghai offices. Neri&Hu, founded by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, is a design and research practice whose work includes The Waterhouse at South Bund (pictured), which transformed a disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel and won World Interior of the Year in 2011. See more stories about Neri&Hu on Dezeen » Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This week details were revealed of Antoni Gaudí's first project outside Spain, Google unveiled a potential rival to Apple's iPhone and the Sky Garden opened at the top of Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie building (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news. (more…) View the full article

A Dutch artist has captured a fluffy white cloud in a beaux-arts style room in San Francisco for the latest in his photography series of indoor clouds (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Interview: forty years after he first met her, London design retailer Zeev Aram has launched a website dedicated to the work of his late friend, the modernist designer Eileen Gray. In this interview, Aram describes his working relationship with the elderly designer who, despite being frail and almost forgotten, could " see with one eye what many architects couldn't see with two eyes" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed during London Design Festival, leading figures from London and abroad explore the pros and cons of working in the city and discuss the threats to its status as one of the major design centres of the world. (more...) View the full article

Interview: with a new monograph and an exhibition in New York, Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld talks to Dezeen about his 40-year career, his love of Radiohead, and the buildings he has yet to design (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

News: robotic tractors will create patterns across a field of crops on the roof of this pavilion that Italian architect Carlo Ratti has designed for the World Expo 2015 in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Continuing our coverage of the recent explosion of tech company headquarters in San Francisco, here's a look inside the offices of online property rental service Airbnb, which feature rooms modelled on eight of the company's listed apartments (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article