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Shiny corrugated metal clads the two cascading stacks of apartments that make up this block in Paris by architect Stephane Maupin. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin designer Jannis Hülsen upholstered this stool by using bacteria to grow a cellulose skin over its surface. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: we’re kicking off our new Designed in Hackney initiative today, showcasing world-class architecture and design created in the borough that’s home to Dezeen’s offices and one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games. First up is the London 2012 Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the popularity of our story about a Starbucks designed by Kengo Kuma, here are some images of a concept store that the coffee-shop giant has completed inside a historic bank vault in Amsterdam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The two storeys that London architects Project Orange have added to the roof of a redundant brick warehouse in Sheffield look like another building stacked on top. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: while the face of this waterside house near Amsterdam is cloaked in perforated aluminium, the rear is entirely glazed so that residents can watch the sun setting. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this bookmark designed by Oscar Lhermitte hovers over the page as you read, poised to dive between the correct pages automatically as you shut the book. Watch the movie » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney will showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. Each day from tomorrow until the games this summer, Dezeen will publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney, creating a unique guide to the borough’s rich and diverse design community. The showcase can be accessed via www.designedinhackney.com. If you’re a Hackney designer or architect and you’d like your work featured, please drop us a line with “Designed in Hackney” in the subject line. The Designed in Hackney logo has been …

French graffiti artist Tilt has swamped one half of a Marseille hotel room in decoration, while the other half remains completely blank. (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 OMA, Foster & Partners and The Architectural Review, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Conran & Company, Tom Dixon and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel has expanded his range of products shaped by magnets with this candle-holder. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Paris photographers Milo Keller & Julien Gallico shot this series of photos to showcase experimental jewellery by Swiss luxury design firm Atelier XJC that references feathers, scales and large delicate ruffs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: one huge window stretches across the black facade of this house overlooking the bay in Osaka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Recently established Norwegian architecture studio Gartnerfuglen have created a mobile fisherman’s hut with walls of ice, where a single inhabitant can isolate themselves from modern technology. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week, after just four months online, Dezeen already had a quarter of a million readers. We published our first story about a sex toy, as well as a globular building that Zaha Hadid had just designed for a square in Budapest. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week sets of pins that let you transform your wine corks into animal characters (bottom right) were very popular on Pinterest, so we thought we’d group together all our stories about things made of cork. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: no two items of furniture or pieces of tableware are the same in the dining room that British artist Martin Creed has designed at London restaurant Sketch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Nike launched a football strip for the French national team featuring the classic Breton stripe, while Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and over a hundred other prolific designers each created an artwork on a piece of graph paper to raise money for cancer care centres. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ribbed timber framework folds around the walls and ceiling of this bar in Porto by Portuguese studio AVA Architects (photos by José Campos). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Chinese architect Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou was named 2012 Pritkzer Prize laureate and we rounded up his key projects. Our most popular story featured architectural photos that have been manipulated to create bizarre and fantastical buildings, and Wolfgang Tschapeller surprised readers with an equally strange-looking design to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Ateliers Jean Nouvel unveiled designs for a new police headquarters in Belgium that readers describe as an ominous watchtower. Other popular stories included a “pristine” and “beautifully done” top-heavy concrete and glass house in Portugal, a staircase looping b…

This desk by Japanese studio Torafu Architects looks like a doll’s house, with little windows in the walls and a pendent lamp inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: dresses whirl past on a radio-controlled coat hanger in this installation by Amsterdam-based German designer Michael Schoner at the Droog flagship store in Amsterdam. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Seoul studio Dialoguemethod made this stationery set by layering up birch plywood with coloured paper. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A small wooden dining table at the heart of this house in Fukuoka, Japan, is overlooked from every other room. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The subtly different proportions of two concrete gables fronting a bank building in northern Germany create the illusion that one side is fatter than the other. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article