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Dezeen and designjunction invite you to a party at designjunction, Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA from 7.30pm on Friday 23 September. The evening will include Pecha Kucha organised by Modus, with designers Shin Azumi, Luke Pearson, Dominic Wilcox, Dezeen’s Marcus Fairs and more. See you there! Read more about designjunction here and more about the London Design Festival here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Brownbook magazine to give away five copies of their latest issue plus five copies of their recently published book Evolving Spaces. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and east London venue Concrete have teamed up to host Change the Record, a live performance by designer Paul Cocksedge on Tuesday 20 September. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office tend to design houses with unconventional windows. Here’s their latest one in Kyoto. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors to Outline Editions gallery in London next week will be able to stamp out Noma Bar’s graphic artworks by feeding sheets of rubber and paper into the maws of a giant hole-punch shaped like a dog. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Arik Levy presents a pebble-shaped device for opening water bottles at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Zealand furniture brand Resident will launch their inaugural collection at designjunction during the London Design Festival next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One half of an extension to a house in north London is surrounded by frameless glass, whilst the other half is encased in slatted timber. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent feature about buildings clad in weathered steel, here’s an archive in Essen, Germany, that is clad in Corten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Creative Industries BootCamp is an intensive five-day workshop for creative graduates and start-up companies, taking place at Central Saint Martins college in London this October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Edward Cullinan Architects have completed a concrete and steel bunker to store the British Film Institute‘s entire film collection. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architects Arch Group have completed the first of their tiny hotel rooms for napping at airports. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: check out Dezeen Watch Store‘s ranges from VOID, Uniform Wares and Ziiiro at our latest pop-up, which is now open at Ligne Roset Westend, 23/25 Mortimer St, London W1T 3JE until 25 September. Go to Dezeen Watch Store » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm designer David Taylor combines concrete, wood, silver, tin and DIY components in his latest collection of candle holders, dishes, mirrors and lighting. (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 designer Sruli Recht and clothing brand River Island, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Priestmangoode, Manalo & White and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A mosaic rainbow of glazed ceramic tiles lines an egg-shaped dome at the heart of a library in Pécs, Hungary. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs of a renovated fortress in northern Italy that now features patinated steel bridges, an extended underground tunnel and concrete towers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian brand 3D Surface have launched their inaugural collection of relief wall panels. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Scenario by Italian brand MCZ is a combined TV and fireplace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week we featured a winery in the south of France and a see-through church in Belgium that are both made of Corten, so here’s a roundup of all our stories featuring weathered steel. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects Astoc have completed a monastery extension in Duisberg with walls that fold around the entrance like origami sculptures. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Each of these vases by London designer Pia Wüstenberg combines turned wood, blown glass and thrown pottery. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Yves Béhar launched a waterproof sex toy and John Pawson had a solo exhibition of his work at the Design Museum in London. Ole Scheeren opened his new studio, having left OMA in March 2010, Pugh + Scarpa announced their decision to split and Alexis Georgacopoulos was appointed director of ECAL. Meanwhile Foreign Office Architects completed their tile-clad Ravensbourne campus and Eastern Design Office completed a house for a dying client. The Hel Yes! temporary Finnish restaurant opened in London, Studio Toogood released a collection of handles modelled on sticks, stones and bones, and Dutch architects Bureau SLA finished the National Gl…

Timber baton screens surround the new ground and first floor decks of a renovated house in Seoul by Korean studio Moohoi Architecture. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week David Lynch unveiled his Paris nightclub, the Campana brothers completed their first hotel and BMW presented a pair of sustainable concept cars. Our readers were shocked by a contraceptive device incorporating a one-cent coin and disturbed by a range of lamps that are turned on when you pull their nipples. Our most popular story featured a monochrome house overlooking the Hollywood sign and readers admired the black charred facade of a tea house in the Czech Republic. A bizarre collection of crafted objects went on show at the V&A, a retractable room divider for hospital wards won the UK James Dyson Award and the RIBA asked “has the architectu…