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Emulsified liquid latex stretches over bodies and fermented dough drips from skin in this movie by graduate textile designer Shai Langen. (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Moshe Safdie has called for a "reorientation" of the way cities are designed, saying that the vogue for skyscrapers and the privatisation of public space is creating cities that are "not worthy of our civilisation". (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Shimpei Oda has reworked the dark interior of a humble 1920s house in Kyoto to bring natural light into living spaces and create a small gallery that opens to the street (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Portuguese studio Aires Mateus has transformed a house in Portugal into a bright white building with a sprawling extension (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This glass-fronted living room and surrounding garden have been added by New South Wales firm CO-AP on the rooftop of a house in Sydney's Darlinghurst (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New images have been released showing Herzog & de Meuron's Jade Signature residential tower for Miami - including the first full-height rendering of the 198 metre-high building. (more...) View the full article

Boyarsky Murphy Architects sandwiched this glass-fronted family residence between two terraced houses in west London, on a site less than three metres wide at the front. (more...) View the full article

Slender columns support a canopy that sweeps around the front of this family residence in Japan's Tokushima prefecture by Japanese firm Horibe Associates (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

South London designers JAILmake have condensed their 205 square metres studio into just five square metres at design show Tent London, where they’ll be working on a new brief every day (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

The government of the Indian state of Maharashtra has approved Virgin Hyperloop One's plans to develop a high-speed line between Mumbai and Pune, which could become the world's first hyperloop. Read more

A curving timber-clad wall divides the work space from a multipurpose meeting room at the offices of domohomo architects in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: the wooden base of this sofa by Swedish firm Note Design Studio extends outwards to become a side table. (more...) View the full article

As architecture and design students prepare for their final shows, we've collected together our guide to the best graduation gifts, from a watch based on architectural drawings to a lightweight electric bicycle for the commute to their first job and a sofa for their first post-student flat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York designer Paul Loebach's flat-pack wooden chair slots together without glue, as demonstrated in a series of vaguely pornographic gifs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Texas-based startup Orion Span has revealed plans for a luxury space hotel, which is expected to open in 2022. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Cinimod Studio (whose lighting installation is shown above), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Skandium, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, Foster + Partners and more... (more...) View the full article

New York designer Shaina Garfield has created an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body so that it decomposes quickly and fertilises the surrounding soil. Read more

Timber joints slot together in these Tetris-like gifs – the work of a young Japanese man so obsessed by joinery techniques he set up a Twitter account dedicated to the cause. Read more View the full article

Manhattan's newly opened Hudson Yards is all shine and no substance, and New York City deserves better says Alan G Brake in this Opinion column. Read more

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's Notre-Dame spire was much loved, but it was a fake. A modern replacement could become just as revered, says Tom Ravenscroft. Read more

A house in Aspen that has been renovated to celebrate its imperfections (pictured), Peter Zumthor's latest renders for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a debate over the relevance of the Kardashians to architecture feature in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 319 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

London designer Craig Green fashioned masks from splintered planks of wood for his Autumn Winter 2013 collection. (more...) View the full article

A balcony shaded by steel fins projects from the upper storey of this house in Northern Ireland, which architect and farmer Patrick Bradley built using four used shipping containers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Low-lying volumes topped with overhanging roofs form this holiday home in the Pacific Northwest, which was designed by US studio Wittman Estes for a family of impassioned naturalists. Read more

Four designers from London's Royal College of Art have recycled the toxic red mud residue from aluminium production to make a series of terracotta-hued cups, bowls and teapots. Read more