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A spiralling concrete slide connects the kitchen and child’s bedroom of this family house near Jakarta designed by Indonesian architects Aboday and photographed by Happy Lim. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This cantilevered house in Suffolk, England, by MVDRV of Rotterdam and British firm Mole Architects will be the first of five homes from Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project available for rent on 22 October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Marc Dibeh of Lebanon has designed a table-top lamp with a sex toy stowed in its side. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Gravity – the first design by Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro – is now available from Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Manuel Herz Architects of Basel have designed this Centre for the Jewish Community in Mainz, Germany covered in glazed, green ceramic tiles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This motorway service station along Route 230 in northern Japan, by architects Code, has a black, rectangular form that snakes up from the ground towards a nearby mountain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduates Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves have made a collection of spectacles from human hair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this music video by London designers Airside for new Flashman track To The Victor – The Spoils! tells the story of an epic voyage through a series of vignettes that come to life one by one. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

 London Design Festival 2011: our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up is now open at designjunction, Victoria House Basement 37-63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA until Sunday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview we filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the architecture firm’s current preoccupations, including the city of London. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed at the AXIS Gallery in Tokyo, Japanese studio Nendo exhibit a selection of their projects through a wall of stacked polycarbonate sheets. Viewed through this transparent facade, Nendo’s designs become pixelated abstractions which vary as visitors move around the exhibit. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese architects Comoco have added a weathered steel cafe and a wooden gazebo on the hill of a castle in the town of Pombal. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Israeli studios Monkey Business and Reddish have designed these pins for making little animal characters from wine corks at the dinner table. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: the 400 wooden slats of this table top by Mauricio Affonso allow it to expand, contract and fan out into a full circle. (more…) View the full article

The top of this Australian house by architect Michael Ong of M O D O is a timber box that sits at an angle on top of the ground floor walls. (more…) View the full article

Designers and architects were wrapping materials over and around things one year ago, like these wooden plywood ribs that appear to drape the ceiling and bar of a coffee shop in Poland (above). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with MAD, G Star Raw and Philips, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Wikinson Eyre, Wanda Creative, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and more… (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Paul Cocksedge has launched an invisible bookend to find out if people will buy an object for its function rather than its appearance. (more…) View the full article

News: construction is set to begin next month on the world’s tallest building in Changsha, China, which will be completed in just 90 days. (more…) View the full article

News: British industrial designer Kenneth Grange has become Sir Kenneth Grange after receiving a knighthood for services to design in the New Year Honours. (more...) View the full article

The View from The Shard tourist attraction inside Renzo Piano's 310-metre London skyscraper opens to the public today and these new shots by photographer Nick Guttridge show just how tall the building is compared with the rest of London's skyline (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A tubular steel slide plummets through four storeys inside this penthouse apartment in New York by architect David Hotson (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Two commercial buildings in Winnipeg have been converted into an apartment block with mirrored balconies that stick out like open drawers. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Domaine de Boisbuchet in south-west France to offer the chance to win a place on an architecture and design workshop this summer (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian design brand Driade has officially opened its new Milan showroom by David Chipperfield – one of the British architect's first projects as the company's artistic director (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article