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Dezeen Screen: in this movie by Brussels gallerist Victor Hunt, Korean designer Kwangho Lee explains how growing up on a farm outside Seoul has influenced his work. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Steel whirlpools spiral into skylights in the roof of a church in Austria by architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A terracotta-coloured earth wall bounding the edge of a research complex in Pune, India, vanishes into an inclining hillside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman’s hat pulled low over his eyes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Reed-like steel columns surround another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten for the World University Games in Shenzhen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a movie by architectural photographer David Vintiner of vintiner/ap about Folly for a Flyover, a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted glass triangles create glowing crowns around a trio of stadiums for the World University Games currently taking place in Shenzhen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Thames & Hudson to give away five copies of Pasta by Design. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

For those who can’t ever have too many shoes, these 16 modular components combine to make 256 different pairs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shimmering panels of stainless steel create the appearance of a rippling lake above the heads of shoppers at a supermarket in Moscow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

What appears to be an open tunnel beneath a bridge in northern Spain is in fact a concealed passageway, screened behind a secret mirror. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is a complete set of photographs of the heavily criticised Museum of Liverpool by Danish architects 3XN, which opened to the public last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this third movie that Dezeen filmed for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson of Wilson McWilliam Studio talks about current trends in garden and landscape design. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some new images of the Apple campus by architects Foster + Partners, to be built in Cupertino, California. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our earlier story about an apartment with the appearance of an elegant building site, here’s another renovated flat in Japan that appears to be unfinished. (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 us at Dezeen, Martin Budnizki Design Studio and Architonic, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Anglepoise, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Folding back these perforated screens reconfigures an apartment that’s combined with a dance and choreography studio near Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rainwater slides down into the central folds of a plunging roof at this Dallas house, draining into a collection tank for reuse. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A boomerang-shaped museum in Mexico is balanced on stilts and stabilised in the air by tensile cables, allowing it to bridge a road and cantilever over a lake. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following the riots in the UK this week and our popular recent story about a steel-plated house (bottom left), which one reader though might come in handy in a zombie apocalypse, we’ve compiled a selection of stories about bunkers and other fortified buildings. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge moulds discarded vinyl records into a range of amplifiers for smartphones. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year our most popular story featured electricity pylons shaped like giants striding across the Icelandic landscape. The Mayor of London published a guide containing 90 standards for new housing in London as Rotterdam trends agency Arch-Vision predicted an increase in prefabricated buildings. Other popular stories included a periscope-shaped camera, hard drives that look like cassette tapes and a house on stilts in Ibiza with a jumble of cascading terraces. Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy shared his imaginative short film about an autonomous, artificially intelligent city while six artists unveiled even stranger proposal…

Our most popular and most controversial story this week featured a redesign of the London tube map that’s more geographically accurate than the 1931 classic – read both sides of the argument and have your say here. Other interesting debates this week focused on the Japanese trend for cladding interiors in plywood and whether a monochrome concrete ice cream parlour can be sophisticated or just cold and brutal. In the wake of the riots that broke out across the UK last weekend, a group of architecture graduates launched an initiative called Riot Rebuild to help repair homes and businesses that were damaged. In cheerier news, Ron Arad’s curtain call exhibition…

Dezeen Screen: in this second movie filmed by Dezeen for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson talks about successful collaborations between architects and garden designers, including The High Line in New York and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London (above). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with London designer Max Lamb to give readers the chance to win one of five signed copies of his new book China Granite Project II. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article