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Students at the Architectural Association in London have constructed leaf-like sculptures that curl down from a fourth-floor roof terrace to a ground level courtyard. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen are proud to be media partners for designjunction, which will take place at Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These fungus-like purses are made of layers of laser-cut silk. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest design from Mr Jones watches, which tells the time through numbers on the teeth of a skull, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A shelving unit displaying children’s clothes doubles up as a plywood playhouse with a sliding staircase, swinging doors and removable furniture. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Centre was one of our most popular stories this month, so we’ve compiled a list of our top ten stories about swimming pools. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Jean-Baptiste Bouvet has completed a hillside swimming pool that steps down to a terrace overlooking the scenic French landscape. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Boston studio Ruhl Walker Architects have completed a wildlife recovery centre in Hawaii. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Oscar Diaz has redesigned the pen pot so there’s no need to tip pens all over the desk or jam your fingers down the side to retrieve a paper clip or pencil sharpener that’s slipped to the bottom. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fir trusses create triangles that meet in the middle of the ceiling at a community hall in California designed by Siegel & Strain Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors enter a museum of energy near a nuclear power plant in Spain through a curved wall of light. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stuttgart architects (se)arch have completed a house in Germany with an exposed concrete base and cedar shingle-clad upper walls (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An army of 100 scarecrows dressed in glowing decontamination suits kept a sinister vigil over the Dockville Festival in Hamburg earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The timber stalactites of an undulating cave-like ceiling bear down around the bar of a coffee shop in Łódź, Poland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Jasper Morrison will show his Lightwood Chair for Japanese company Maruni as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Residents at this remote Australian lodge can step straight out of bed to the side of a long narrow outdoor pool. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nobody likes hospital waiting rooms. Barcelona design agency Fuelfor have designed a series of conceptual improvements to make them a little more bearable. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These stools by Swedish designers Glimpt are made in Vietnam from rolls of seagrass, bound with the thread that’s normally used to make hammocks. (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 Balmond Studio, MAD and Universal Design Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Heatherwick Studio, Marcel Wanders and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house by Masahiro Kinoshita of KINO Architects comprises four blocks branching off from a central living and dining room, with an attic above each one. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: our most popular story this week is Zaha Hadid’s Wangjing Soho retail complex for Beijing, so here’s a roundup of all our stories about projects in China. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Planks of a picnic table are draped over the railing at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milanese collective Carnovsky have decked out east London bar and gallery DreamBags-JaguarShoes in their wallpaper that changes under different lighting conditions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These racy figurines by ceramicist Rebecca Wilson are cast from pieces of fruit. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the Venice Architecture Biennale was underway, where Rem Koolhaas was awarded the Golden Lion as OMA unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. Our favourite pavilions included a forest of acrylic fronds that moved as though breathing in the Canadian pavilion, a cloud suspended inside the Arsenale exhibition space and a blue foam model city in the Dutch pavilion. Meanwhile we previewed the new identity for Dezeen Watch Store, which launched the following month. Umbro released the new England Home Kit by graphic design legend Peter Saville, Biomega presented a range of bicycles for Puma, C. F. Møller w…