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Milan 2012: in Milan earlier this month Zaha Hadid paid a surprise visit to Dezeen Studio at MOST to chat to us about her Secret Garden installation, some of the other projects she has in the pipeline and her impression of this year’s furniture fair. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: Stoke Newington designers Studio Vit showed these glass lamps with marble cuffs as part of Salone Satellite at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this month. (more…) View the full article

This blanket is embroidered with tiny sensors so it can watch you sleeping. (more…) View the full article

This week we’ve added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of food from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 2000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about food. View the full article

Slovenian firm OFIS Arhitekti have created an apartment in Ljubljana where rooms are separated by staggered floors rather than walls, with storage areas located underneath. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen and photographer Edmund Sumner, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Knoll International and more… (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: here’s another of the six artists’ studios that Norwegian firm Saunders Architecture designed for an island off the coast of Canada, this time a white angular cabin. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Californian architects Garcia Tamjidi have completed a studio apartment in San Francisco that looks more like an art gallery or showroom. (more…) View the full article

Lebanese design duo Bokja have created embroidered maps of the Arab world that present a tapestry of changing politics and traditions. (more…) View the full article

American firm Handel Architects have completed a New York hotel with porthole windows that give it an uncanny resemblance to children’s game Connect Four. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week we published images of the six finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, including the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio. A monumental building for Dubai Opera in the United Arab Emirates by Jean Nouvel was described by readers as “vulgar” and “ugly” and we created an interactive map of major architectural projects in the Gulf states. Images of a structure by Arne Quinze for the Burning Man festival made from 150km of wooden laths attracted plenty of attention and Zaha Hadid designed an exhibition centre with two adjoining residential towers in Moscow. Meanwhile we continued to round up projects from the Mila…

Chilean architects Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy designed this house in Santo Domingo as a cluster of prefabricated modules. (more…) View the full article

Paris firm Moussafir Architectes have blanketed the roof of this concert hall in Tours, France, with a synthetic material that looks more like a quilt. (more…) View the full article

One year ago a proposal for 47 lodges carved into the side of a sandstone cliff in Jordan sparked a furious debate about the project’s “ecological” credentials and London designer Dominic Wilcox created a provocative stylus for using a touch-screen phone in the bath. Architecture projects completed this time last year included David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary gallery on the seafront of Margate in England, and a shopping centre on the site of a traditional marketplace in Abu Dhabi by Foster + Partners. Meanwhile, a mobile art pavilion by Zaha Hadid was a hit with readers, while the design for a Comic and Animation Museum in China by Dutch studio MVRDV was compare…

Movie: Rem Koolhaas was at the ICA in London this morning to launch OMA’s design for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. He gave Dezeen a quick introduction to the new gallery, which will be built in Gorky Park in the Russian capital for gallerist Dasha Zukhova. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: Dutch designers Scholten & Baijings showed a varied service based on the archives of hand-painted porcelain company 1616 Arita Japan at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: more about Hackney designers in Milan last week – this tangle of bent rods and random objects is actually a doorbell by Dutch Shoreditch-based designer Tord Boontje that was shown at the Ventura Lambrate design district. (more…) View the full article

We’re rounding off the week on Dezeen Music Project with a bit of tech-house. This track by Nsquared builds up gradually with different rhythmic and melodic layers, before teasing you with a delayed drop about three minutes in. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

This week the Olympic torch by BarberOsbery won the top prize at the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year awards, a decision that divided Dezeen readers and provoked some design critics to question the validity of the awards. A restoration of historic ship the Cutty Sark in London by Grimhaw architects also proved controversial, with one reader describing it as “stunning”, while another said: “They have skewered the ship like a kebab. Thoroughly disrespectful.” See reaction from architecture critics to this project here. In other architecture news, OMA presented designs for a Moscow gallery to be housed in a converted 1960s restaurant, New York architect Steven Holl reve…

In the second announcement from Rem Koolhaas’ office today, OMA have unveiled their designs to convert a 5400 square metre 1960s pavilion in Stalinist-era Gorky Park in Moscow into a new venue for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: a single piece of fabric folds around the moulded polyurethane foam seat of this club chair by London designer Benjamin Hubert. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: this small twisted tower is one of the six artists’ studios that Saunders Architecture of Norway are constructing on Fogo Island off the coast of Canada. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: last week at the Hacked Lab in Milan, Hackney-based designer Dominic Wilcox battled a 3D printer in a competition to build a model of the nearby Duomo cathedral. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this video shows Basque woodworking company Axalko crafting a bicycle frame from wood. (more…) View the full article

Construction has started on an art museum with four overlapping peaks that Foster + Partners have designed for Datong, China. (more…) View the full article