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This coffee table by Rotterdam designer Reinier de Jong can be expanded by sliding the middle sections outwards in either direction. (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…

Slideshow: there are no horizontal crossbeams to interrupt the vertically striped wooden batons that clad this house outside Munich by German architects Titus Bernhard. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has worked with people from one of Mumbai’s poorest areas to transform traditional water carriers into leathery vases. (more…) View the full article

Architectural Association student Yvonne Weng has won the 2012 Foster + Partners Prize with designs that would allow scientists to live in the treetops of the Amazon rainforest. (more…) View the full article

This week a staircase for dogs has been our most popular on Dezeen and most-shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. (more…) View the full article

An undulating golden plane blankets the new Islamic art galleries at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Norwegian studio Snøhetta has won a competition to design a waterside opera house in Busan, South Korea. (more…) View the full article

Piles of buildings featured heavily on Dezeen this week, including Edouard François’ stack of townhouses, apartment blocks and bungalows (above), plus we’ve picked out our favourite Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more…) View the full article

The prize for the most popular story in May (and in fact the whole year) goes to United Indecent Pleasures for their eight-inch chocolate penis that oozes fondant cream. Scroll on for something more architectural and our highlights from the news that month. (more...) View the full article

A square window protrudes from the gabled facade of this house in Germany by Stuttgart architects (se)arch (+ slideshow + photographs by Zooey Braun) (more...) View the full article

The relentless march towards a 3D-printed world continued this week with news of a 3D-printed dress (above) and a 3D-printed car. Read on for more highlights of the week and our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Five aluminium-clad volumes are stacked up like a pile of horizontal skyscrapers at this office complex outside Oslo by Norwegian studio A-Lab (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm OMA's proposal to place a hotel on top of the Miami Beach Convention Center is going head-to-head with Danish firm BIG's plan for the site (+ slideshow + movie). (more...) View the full article

A group of Royal College of Art graduates has used the pulp from mulched newspapers to form helmets for London's cycle hire scheme (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Spanish architects Taller Básico de Arquitectura hoisted this pair of concrete laboratories in northern Spain onto red metal stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This wooden nursery and elementary school complex in Lyon by French architects Tectoniques has hilly rooftops carpeted with plants that feature walkways for students to explore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Weddings and parties take place inside halls framed by stone, timber and bamboo at this events building for a Vietnam hotel by Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: British architects are experiencing the first annual increase in their workload since 2009, according to the Royal Institute of British Architects. (more...) View the full article

In the second of our A-Zdvent calendar of architects, B is for Bjarke Ingels whose projects include the House 8 project (pictured), a power plant that doubles up as a ski slope and the Superkilen park in Copenhagen. See more architecture by Bjarke Ingels » View the full article

The visitor centre for ancient archeological site Stonehenge opened to the public this week. Our roundup of architecture and design news follows, along with the Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

A curving timber-clad wall divides the work space from a multipurpose meeting room at the offices of domohomo architects in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (more...) View the full article

An intricate three-dimensional lattice of narrow timber slats forms a cloud-like mass around the exterior of this pineapple cake shop in Tokyo by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: water becomes the main character in this black and white music video created by director Albert Sala for John Matthias's Spreadsheet Blues. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Dutch design duo Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings have applied their signature graphic markings to a range of glassware for Irish company J Hill's Standard (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article