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Jars of colourful preserves are treated like precious antiques at this Paris jam shop by French architect Noël Dominguez. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Climbing plants grow in the recesses of this mysterious steel fence, which conceals the entrance to a renovated coach house in north London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story this week on wallpaper for faking a Renaissance palazzo, here’s a roundup of all Dezeen’s stories about wallpaper. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The joints of this handcrafted task light by Israeli industrial designer Asaf Weinbroom comprise strips of walnut veneer clamped round the oak base and head. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time five years ago the concrete formwork of Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts was only just beginning to take shape in Rome. The building finally completed in 2009 and went on to win the Stirling Prize the following year. Meanwhile, the Gagosian Gallery in New York revealed images of a new marble table being shown later that month designed by Australian-born designer Marc Newson, who was this year awarded a CBE for services to design in the UK and worldwide. We featured a globe lampshade that slots around a light bulb and a set of bookshelves that fit into any alcove, while our readers were all preoccupied with trying to get their hands on a lycra ca…

London studio (and near-neighbours of Dezeen) Raw Architecture Workshop have designed a partly submerged wooden house for the Scottish Highlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Imagine if our cities were built by fleets of flying robots. A group of robot helicopters were programmed to lift and stack 1500 polystyrene bricks into a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France. Watch the movie » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year an orchestral academy designed by Frank Gehry opened in Florida, while architects Scott Brownrigg completed the London offices for internet giant Google. Meanwhile, Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am was appointed director of creative innovation at technology company Intel, OMA published a report claiming the world could be free from fossil fuels by 2050 and a restaurant designed by Tom Dixon opened at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Dezeen readers debated whether designs for a power plant that will blow smoke rings and double up as a ski slope were bonkers or brilliant, but questioned the sustainable credentials of a chair carved from a tree trun…

Architects Foster + Partners have attached a 35-storey tower onto the side of two renovated 1920s buildings in Vancouver’s financial district. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our most controversial story this week announced writer Alain de Botton’s plans to erect temples for atheists across the UK – read the story and join the debate here. It also emerged that Disney were selling a T-shirt inspired by the 1979 album cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, but don’t rush to order one as they’ve all sold. We also showed a robe made of golden silk harvested from over a million wild spiders and a tower built by flying robots. Our most popular story featured a blackened timber house surrounded by sheep on a Portuguese island and readers showed a lot of love for the bottle-shaped shutters of a wine shop in Prague, but argued about the sloping …

Following their Eurovision Song Contest win last summer, Azerbaijan rushed to commission German firm GMP Architekten to design a new stadium that will be complete in time to host this year’s competition. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This 60 metre-long metal bridge is a route for heating and power pipes, rather than people. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The display system at this Japanese souvenir shop in Paris is just key rings hung on screws in the walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Tadashi Yoshimura created a living room lined with mud during the renovation of this 200-year-old family house in Nara. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A golden cape woven from the silk of over a million wild spiders is on show at the V&A museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Transform your bare office into an Italian palazzo with this wallpaper by UK designers Young & Battaglia that lets you pretend to be surrounded by Renaissance-style angels carved in stone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo architects Naoi have completed a three-tiered woodland summerhouse at Japanese holiday spot Nasu Kogen. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, flying robots created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea assemble a six metre-high tower from polystyrene bricks. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: this range of seating by product designer Karoline Fesser can be extended by attaching extra components between the segments of the cushions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A room dedicated to ironing is at the centre of a renovated Barcelona apartment with yellow doors and a spinning mirror. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris 2012: chair brand Emeco presented a new collection of seating by French designer Christophe Pillet at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: London designers Doshi Levien installed a vision of their dream home at trade fair imm cologne in Germany last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Blacksheep have completed a pizzeria for celebrity chef Jamie Oliver where a cinema listings board displays the menu and diners can watch chefs at work on vintage televisions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie shows how French studio FREAKS freearchitects stuck huge dimension arrows onto the facade of a building by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Jean Prouvé in Paris in a bid to educate the general public about the importance of architecture. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A Belgian film director resides in one of the four white boxy structures of this residence near Marrakech by Guilhem Eustache. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article