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This maple-veneered staircase twists and turns between the floors of an Olympic Museum in Georgia refurbished by UK and Georgia firm Architects of Invention. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: a sizeable hole in the roof of this gabled house in Oita, Japan, allows residents to climb outside and survey their surroundings. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week readers have been debating whether the proliferation of perforated facades in projects like David Adjaye’s Smithsonian Museum (top right) is a result of fashion or shifts in practical considerations like availability and cost, so we’ve grouped all our stories about perforated metal facades in one place. Join the discussion about fashion in architecture here and see all the stories here. See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melvær designed these storage jars and lamps to showcase small, precious belongings. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week we chatted to Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana as they unveiled their chairs made from Disney cuddly toys in London. As Design Indaba drew to a close in Cape Town, a condom applicator designed to help prevent the spread of AIDS was named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa and we featured lighting made from salvaged plastic that had also been presented there. Designer Moritz Waldemeyer sent us backstage snapshots from Paris Fashion Week of mechanical dresses that play videos, plus we previewed the chairs that architects Kram Weisshaar planned to launch in Milan that spring. See all our stories from February 2007 » See al…

Slideshow: Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has manipulated his own architectural photography to create impossible and fantastical structures, like this tower block that splits into two as though being unzipped. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

If for some reason you’d like to draw pictures with the bottom of your cup, Japanese designer Fumiaki Goto has made these little vessels with the same combination of ceramic and graphite used to make pencil lead. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week last year designers BarberOsgerby were appointed to design the Torch for the London 2012 Olympic Games, while they later unveiled in June, a fashion designer and an architect showed a collection of 3d-printed clothing and a boulder-shaped mausoleum opened in Acapulco. Japanese architects Apollo completed two houses with pointy overhangs in Sendai, one black and one white, while in Denmark a physical shop opened where customers can buy digital fonts. A Dezeen commenter accused architects Ooze of raping an old house that they had wrapped with a faceted skin, and another thought an orange showroom building with gaping holes in its facade best resembled a chunk …

This week sports brand Nike launched a range of knitted running shoes, car brand Mini unveiled a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman and RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi put his award-winning folding plug graduation project into production. A website called Arch Leaks was launched to revel the secrets of architecture firms and some users immediately set about creating and rating fake practices, while open-source designs for spectacle frames cut from 18mm plywood stirred up an amusing debate among our readers. ”We are currently working on the next iteration of WikiGlasses – a range of 18mm ply open-source contact lenses,” comments the designer. Meanwhile construction began…

Dezeen Screen: designer Paulo Benvegnú represents her own family in the shape of 30 unique cups in this movie filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Lisbon architects ARX Portugal and Stefano Riva have completed a top-heavy house in the village of Aldeia de Juso with a concrete upper storey settled over the glazed walls below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the next series of London Pecha Kucha talks kicks off at the Design Museum on Tuesday 28 February, with speakers including illustrator and artist Noma Bar, design historian Patrick O’Shea and architectural photographer Jim Stephenson. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: a select number of garments at this fashion store in Osaka are presented inside a white cage-like tunnel. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s our second project this week by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates – a rural Italian villa converted into a showroom for ceramics company Casalgrande Padana. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: this underground house by London studio De Matos Ryan tunnels beneath a listed stone tower in Gloucestershire, England. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Kengo Kuma and Associates have installed a Starbucks coffee shop on the approach to a Shinto shrine in Dazaifu, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: design graduate Clinton Sheldon uses salvaged components from British furniture makers Ercol to make a series of lighting and furniture in this film made at Dezeen Platform during Dezeen Space last autumn. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: car brand Mini will present a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman at the International Geneva Motor Show next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Zurich designers Atelier Volvox rescued these unloved plush toys and gave them a new lease of life by turning them inside out – eyes and all. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Australian practice March Studio conceived this Melbourne bakery as an oversized breadbasket. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the golden cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: sports brand Nike have created a range of running shoes with knitted uppers made in one piece. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: sports brand Nike have created a range of running shoes with knitted uppers made in one piece. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article