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Slideshow: Japanese firm Schemata Architecture Office have perched a cabin on top of a small woodland cliff in Chiba, Japan. (more…) View the full article

This week we’ve added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of living rooms from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 1000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. View the full article

Slideshow: just like the museum we published earlier today (or yesterday?), this library in Worcester, England, by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is covered with shimmering squares of golden metal. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: here’s a roundup of Furniture from Greece that will be on show at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan from 17 to 22 April. (more…) View the full article

Eindhoven designers BCXSY worked with traditional Irish boat builders to develop this collection of stools, tables and bowls, which they’ll present at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: the concrete walls of this church in Tenerife are roughly lined with crushed volcanic rocks. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: we’re kicking off this week’s set of iconic projects designed in the London borough of Hackney with a Stirling Prize-nominated museum of fine art in Denmark by Shoreditch firm Tony Fretton Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: the faceted copper envelope of this house extension near Sydney was designed by architects Innovarchi to resemble a roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hackney architects Theis and Khan have refurbished this apartment in south-west London by removing dividing walls, exposing the roof trusses and adding a terrace at the rear. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Universal Design Studio and Barber Osgerby, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, AL_A and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: this all-grey apartment block in Berlin by German studio BCO Architekten has five skewed bay windows that twist away from its facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects TYIN tegnestue of Norway have taken an empty slot in a dense residential area of Bangkok and worked with the local community to built a climbing frame and basketball court. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Although it may look a canteen somewhere in south-east Asia, this informal restaurant is actually located in central London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. The whole Dezeen team was on holiday (there were fewer of us back then) so we featured projects from the first book by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Twenty-First Century Design, including Marcel Wanders’ Airborne Snotty Vases, and the Millau Viaduct by Foster & Partners. See all our stories from March 2007 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story about the much awaited western concourse at King’s Cross station by John McAslan & Partners, we decided to group together all of our stories about stations for this week’s archive feature. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The living room of this apartment renovated by Portuguese architect Tiago Filipe Santos opens onto a tiered courtyard garden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago this week we published photos of the completed the Centro Niemeyer by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Avilés, Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group won a competition to masterplan a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two motorways and our most controversial story featured a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre for a plot beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week John McAslan + Partners unveiled the long-awaited remodelling of King’s Cross Station in London, PayPal launched a device for swiping credit cards to take payments on a smartphone, and readers wondered why the roof of the Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems is yellow rather than red. A photographer’s studio over a boat house in Canada was our most popular story and we continued our Designed in Hackney showcase of design from our local area with work by David Adjaye, Jasper Morrison and Duggan Morris Architects, plus a cinema inside a canal boat. Over on Dezeen Screen you can watch two interviews that Dezeen filmed with Nike’s global creative director Andy …

Online payment system PayPal have launched PayPal Here, a device designed by San Francisco studio Fuseproject that allows users to make face-to-face transactions by plugging it into the top of a smartphone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Friday’s instalment in our showcase of the best design in the London borough of Hackney is Sugru, an ingenious silicone rubber that can be used to fix, strengthen or customise almost any object. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These chandeliers by London designers Troika use large fresnel lenses to shape the light from LEDs suspended below them into overlapping geometric patterns on the ceiling of the Royal Society of Arts‘ headquarters in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie by Karen Eng shows a model built by MIT fellow Skylar Tibbits and molecular scientist Arthur Olson to show how components will assemble themselves correctly if allowed to collide enough times, resulting in the creation of larger and more complex structures. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Russian architect Peter Kostelov has removed the welded metal walls of an apartment he first completed seven years ago and replaced them with light timber partitions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: last summer Hackney architects Studio Weave turned an old narrow boat into a floating cinema that toured the canals of east London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a plan to cover Milan in polychrome bird-poo, a Starbucks coffee shop inside a former bank vault in Amsterdam and the launch of our Designed in Hackney initiative. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, plus all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article