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Cologne 2012: these oversized lamps by French studio Numéro 111 for design brand Ligne Roset are illuminated by strips of LEDs around the back of the shade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Eureka and Atelier Chocolate have completed a vet’s surgery and apartment behind a metal mesh cage in Kanagawa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store and friends: Dezeen Watch Store will be at Interiors UK in Birmingham from 22 January, along with a selection of the most successful designers and brands from our pop-up shop The Temporium. In this first of four interviews with some of the designers, Londoner Shan Valla talks about her new collection of porcelain vessels cast from cut-glass decanters and her bottles cast from found, industrially produced milk bottles. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

For the past couple of days Dezeen have been at domestic interiors show Home in London to present a range of products by upcoming designers and brands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: Chilean studio Great Things to People (gt2P) present this lamp covered in alpaca hair as part of [D3] Talents at imm cologne this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with the organisers of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition to give away five copies of their book, which collates 300 of the best entries from the past six years. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: French design brand Ligne Roset present their new collection in Cologne this week, including this little storage unit modelled on a traditional sewing box by Copenhagen designers GamFratesi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects 403architecture have turned the floor of this refurbished apartment in Hamamatsu into a huge chest of drawers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Diners can climb into wooden booths modelled on railway carriages in the second Fabbrica pizzeria completed by Dutch design studio Tjep. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These renders show the cedar shell and glazed facade of a triangular house by Swedish firm Wingårdh Arkitektontor to be constructed on a rocky, harbourside plot. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: these steel pendant lamps with a bulb in each end are on show as part of [D3] Talents at imm cologne, which opens today in Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: designer Jólan van der Wiel has sent us this movie of his machine for shaping stools using gravity and magnets, on display as part of the [D3] Contest for young designers at imm cologne in Germany this week. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American architects Richard Meier & Partners have unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City. (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 designers UNStudio and communications brand Nokia, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Universal Design Studio, Matteo Thun, Tom Dixon and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The two-L-shaped halves of this house in Singapore by Chinese architects Neri&Hu fold around a courtyard garden and two pools of water. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Virai Arquitectos have completed a sandstone winery that is partially submerged in the ground. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This concrete social-housing block in Paris has artists’ studios on the ground floor and an oval-shaped opening in the roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian architects YTA have converted the spare room of a house into a multimedia library where pine floorboards and industrial lighting climb the walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week the late Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone, and went on to sell over a hundred million of them. Following their competition win, we revealed new images of the OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year, and Brazilian brothers the Campanas completed the interior of a Camper shoe store in Berlin. Marc Newson designed a set of children’s toys for furniture store Habitat, who have since closed all but three of their UK shops, and we featured a farmhouse-style restaurant and traditional bakery by British architects FAT, located next door to the remaining Tottenham Court Road branch of Habitat. See all our stories…

These handmade electrical plugs allow you to plug a second appliance into the back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story this week on a ship-shaped apartment, here’s a roundup of all Dezeen’s stories about boats. See all the stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A frameless sheet of glass undulates around this barrel-vaulted conservatory in west London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Chinese architects MAD unveiled plans for a museum shaped like a giant icicle and a mirrored treehouse in Sweden opened up its doors to overnight guests. Japanese designers Nendo presented a collection of furniture comprised entirely of square and cube-shaped parts, while an RCA student came up with a fun way to recycle leftover Christmas trees and we featured a mirrored office with a hidden slide entrance. Readers were impressed with the sensitive detailing of a mountainside tomb but thought a self-assembly chair by designer Max Lamb would only be able to support the super-skinny. Meanwhile we revealed images of a few popular houses, including a…

A steel staircase outside this renovated summerhouse in western Spain spirals up onto a roof terrace with a view of the sea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week a boat-shaped apartment washed up on the roof of the Southbank Centre in London, dRMM completed a shimmering golden wedding chapel in the British seaside town of Blackpool and we showed images of Renzo Piano’s new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Our most popular stories featured a precariously cantilevered museum in the Alps and a playground pavilion in Copenhagen with funhouse mirrors covering its gabled ends. Meanwhile fuseproject unveiled a tablet version of their One Laptop Per Child project, Nendo previewed the new work they’ll show during Maison & Objet in Paris next week and Konstantin Grcic unveiled his new school chair to …