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Today on Dezeen Music Project we’re bringing you the sounds of Jamaica, via Germany, with this dub reggae track by Berlin-based artist Dubble Dubble. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. (more…) View the full article

The first product from new erotic brand United Indecent Pleasures is an eight-inch chocolate penis that oozes fondant cream. (more…) View the full article

We’ve just sent out the first issue of our Dezeen Watch Store newsletter, including new additions to our collection and details of our next pop-up. See the newsletter » View the full article

This Tokyo house by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has hardly any walls and looks like scaffolding (photos by Iwan Baan). (more…) View the full article

The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for this summer’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: they’ll conduct an archaeological dig to find traces of past pavilions on the site then line the resulting trenches with cork. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: American architect David Jameson has completed a two-storey house in Bethesda, Maryland, with white walls that look like pixellated blocks. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: furniture company SCP has been working with some of the best designers in the industry at its Shoreditch headquarters since the mid 1980s. Every day this week our Designed in Hackney series focusses on key products that were developed above the shop on Curtain Road, starting with the 1986 Side Table by Jasper Morrison. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Spanish architects Miquel Mariné Núñez and César Rueda Boné have transformed an abandoned market hall in Aragon into a children’s centre with a slide connecting its floors. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Knoll international, Itsu, and Benjamin Hubert Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with David Collins Studio, Fredrickson Stallard, United Designers and more… (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: this wooden cabin in Iceland by Reykjavik studio Arkís is split into asymmetric apartments with roofs that slope in alternate directions. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: this week we’ve published three more of the wooden cabin-like artists’ studios that Saunders Architecture of Norway have designed for the picturesque Fogo Island in Canada, so here’s a slideshow rounding up all four completed so far (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: yesterday we featured a music school covered in oriented strand board with furniture to match, so here are lots more projects from the Dezeen archives that use the same material for an unfinished look. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Dezeen reader Trevor Cook asked us to make a Pinterest board compiling chairs from the pages of Dezeen. So here it is. See all of our stories about chairs here and follow us on Pinterest here. View the full article

Five years ago Foster + Partners unveiled ambitious proposals for a “zero carbon, zero waste” development in Abu Dhabi to be planned like an ancient walled city and OMA designed a Death Star-like convention centre, also for the United Arab Emirates. Andrea Salvetti showed chairs that look like nests, cupboards resembling giant logs, super-sized eggs and a giant filigree mushroom. We also showed our readers what we thought might have been the best new chair from Milan and published a set of bird houses designed to look like little churches. In London, students from the Royal College of Art exhibited knuckledusters that leave messages on skin, plates for arguing couples t…

The two rehearsal rooms of this Brazilian music school are covered with chalkboards on the outside and oriented strand board on the inside. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: these stacking metal chairs were created by French architect Jean Nouvel for the restaurant of the RBC Design Centre that his studio have designed in Montpellier, due to open next month, and they’re now in production with Italian brand Emu. (more…) View the full article

This time last year MVRDV architect Winy Maas was awarded the highest decoration of honour in France, UNStudio opened a pavilion in New York’s Battery Park and we revealed what it looks like inside Skype’s Stockholm offices. In other news, fuseproject launched a grating tool for making hot cacao that clips onto the side of a mug and West 8 completed a “Garden of 10,000 Bridges” that suspiciously seemed to contain just five. Dezeen readers were busy debating whether a library with shelves for walls would be constantly full of dust and also if its swastika-shaped desks were appropriate. They were also full of praise for a Puma store where sneakers appear to be walking up …

Movie: in this interview filmed at the Italian Cultural Institute in London yesterday, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks to architect David Chipperfield, director of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. Chipperfield speaks about Common Ground, his theme for the biennale, and gives his views on the contemporary architecture scene, comparing architects to “perfume brands at Duty Free, on a pedestal, singular and isolated” and says: “[Architects] don’t have common ground between ourselves and the public”. The Italian Cultural Institute was the venue of Friday’s press conference to launch the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which takes place from 29 August to …

This week Google opened a campus for startups in east London, Yves Bahar launched a bigger and louder version of his Jambox wireless speaker and BIG unveiled designs for a tower block shaped like a hashtag. Meanwhile we’ve been busy editing the interviews we filmed at Dezeen Studio in Milan and you can now watch the full-length movies on Dezeen Screen, including Zaha Hadid on projects she has in the pipeline, Joseph Grima on how crowd-sourcing and open design are reshaping industry and Justin McGuirk on the future of design criticism. Our most popular story was a glass house in Belgium with a sunken swimming pool in front, closely followed by our series of stories about…

Here’s another of our favourite tracks by Will Matiu, a UK producer and DJ based in Leeds. Bit on Please has got soulful piano chords, a strong vocal hook and, like all his tracks, a dance floor-filling groove. Make sure you check out his track we featured last month too. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Chinese architects Neri&Hu have completed this private member’s club in Beijing. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: here’s another design classic from the London borough of Hackney – Paul Cocksedge‘s pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: New York and Amsterdam designer Karim Rashid presented this sofa with modular arms and headrests slotted into a high back at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this month. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Danish architects 3XN have completed a riverside cultural centre in Norway with glass hills outlined on its facade. (more…) View the full article