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Dezeen Screen: in this movie we filmed with Australian designer Marc Newson, he talks about his latest project, the K01 camera for Japanese brand Pentax. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2012: French designer Inga Sempé presents a collection of LED pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hundreds of circular holes puncture a faceted bronze extension to a fortified museum in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, that is set to reopen next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design brand Luminaire announce their collaboration with Italian stone company Salvatori. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images of an extremely pointy pavilion in Tianjin, China, by Singapore studio Ministry of Design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this first instalment from a discussion chaired by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Milan designer Fabio Novembre talks about his work and inspirations. We filmed the talk at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro’s series on Italian design. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have a furnished a suit store in Okayama like an office, with conference tables, bookshelves and desk lamps. (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 new work by Daniel Libeskind and Marc Newson, a temple for atheists and an office with a slide. 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

A glazed corridor connects the two wooden halves of this seaside house on the east coast of Ireland by Dublin studio A2 Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2012: Stockholm designer Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF presents this pendant lamp inspired by the fenders and buoys that hang down from the side of boats at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair this week. (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 University College London, Dominique Perrault Architecture and Vitsoe, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Nokia, UN Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Employees at web consultancy Netlife Research in Oslo can take a moment for contemplation inside one of three wooden rooms dedicated to silence. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ten fangs protrude from the sole of each of these shoes, worn by models at the Spring/Summer 2012 show of fashion designer Iris van Herpen. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This small rusty cabin designed by Oslo architects Manthey Kula provides public toilets along one of Norway’s tourist routes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two Corten steel pavilions form the mouths to a tunnel of university laboratories inside a former army tank depot in Bremen, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week an all-star lineup of architects comprising Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando released proposals for a cultural complex on an island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. Hadid’s designs were for a performing arts centre projecting towards the harbour while Gehry put forward plans for a Guggenheim contemporary art museum, Nouvel proposed a Louvre classical art gallery and Ando designed a maritime museum. All four are currently still in development. In the Netherlands, a ziggurat-like college by Erick van Egeraat opened its doors for the first time and NL Architects won a competition to design a new civic building in the northern town of …

Dezeen archive: one of our most controversial stories this week was a strikingly red psychiatric centre, so we’ve grouped together all of our stories about bright red architecture. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These desks by London architects Studio Octopi were designed to look like miniature basketball courts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Zaha Hadid unveiled concept proposals for two luxury villas at a golf resort and residents of a Paris neighbourhood complained so much about the noisy construction of a Frank Gehry-designed civic building that construction had to stop for the next month. Elsewhere, Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group were keeping very busy, revealing designs for not one but three new buildings – a technology centre with large holes in the walls, a residential building with a triangular tower and a doughnut-shaped art museum. Dezeen visited Stockholm for the annual furniture fair, where we saw stools with lolly stick-shaped legs, an armchair made from a single she…

Translucent windows create a glowing frame around the facade of this Tokyo townhouse when the lights are turned on inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a family of curved towers beside a bay in Singapore. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Marc Newson unveiled the camera he designed for Japanese brand Pentax and Nike launched a wristband that can tell whether you’ve done any exercise. Meanwhile, Austrian designer Nina Levett caused a stir with a trio of provocative videos that show her at work in her studio. Zaha Hadid signed an agreement to design new headquarters for an Iraqi bank, whilst the Royal College of Art in London announced that architect Charles Walker and designer Ab Rogers will be leading their architecture and interior design departments in the forthcoming summer term. A large metal slide convinced a few readers that they’d like to work at Lego’s Denmark office, but some felt th…

The latest menswear collection by fashion designer Sruli Recht of Iceland features leather made from dolphin skin, fabric woven from horse hair and silk extracted from a spider’s gland implanted in a goat. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Noé Duchaufour Lawrance has fitted out an alpine ski lodge in the French Alps with a trunk-like hearth, curved fir walls and a floating bed. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: design graduate Ariane Prin uses an extruding machine to press pencils from waste materials she finds at the Royal College of Art workshops in her project From Here to Here, presented and filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article