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Electricity pylons, road-signs and rusty advertising plaques steal the spotlight from the Giza pyramids in these images by photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American designer Chad Wright stretched the archetypal birdhouse shape to create penthouse nest boxes with varying heights. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: these prints featuring festive collective nouns by Woop Studios are on sale at our pop-up shop The Temporium, open in London until 24 December. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’re rounding off the week on Dezeen Music Project with a bit of tech-house. This track by Nsquared builds up gradually with different rhythmic and melodic layers, before teasing you with a delayed drop about three minutes in. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Imme van der Haak has printed photos of people onto silk shrouds so that the wearer’s image is overlaid with someone else’s face and body (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Zaha Hadid has denied her design for the London 2012 Aquatics Centre is to blame for the 600 tickets sold to Olympic spectators unaware they’ll have a restricted view of the top diving events. (more…) View the full article

This woodland observatory by architecture collective CLP Architectes is a patchwork of square wooden panels and windows. (more…) View the full article

In this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions, architects Maria Smith and Je Ahn of Studio Weave speak to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about projects including a bench for 300 people and how they believe “a trap that architects can fall into is thinking that they know how to do everything.” (more…) View the full article

Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across at its widest point. (more…) View the full article

Christmas shoppers in Madrid can stroll under glittering circles of LEDs designed by Italian architect Teresa Sapey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: creators of the Philips LightCollector app, which stores and shares users' pictures of their lighting design inspiration, have selected some of their favourite images uploaded since its launch in November. (more...) View the full article

This liquor-distilling kit by Vienna designer Francesco Morackini breaks down into four perfectly innocent household objects. (more...) View the full article

Gallery: here is a selection of key buildings by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, who was announced as 2013 Pritzker Prize winner yesterday. (more...) View the full article

This house in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates has skylights in the roof and holes in the floor plates, allowing daylight to reach right down to the basement (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a senior designer with the inventors of Sugru, an ingenious silicone rubber that can be used to fix, strengthen or customise almost any object. See more stories about Sugru on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The architects of Polish studio PL.architekci have created a new studio for themselves inside a disused loft in Poznan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2015: Chinese studio Neri&Hu has installed its vision for the home of the future – overfilled with furniture – at the imm Cologne trade fair (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have added three new colours to their Corniches shelves for Vitra. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: British designer Sebastian Wrong has collaborated with Danish design brand Hay to create a furniture collection, presented at a Georgian townhouse in London this week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can enter a competition to win a set of architecture books published by Laurence King by completing one of three drawings from its new Archidoodle title. (more...) View the full article

Movie: in our next exclusive interview from Inside Festival, Aman Aggarwal explains how his studio Charged Voids combined traditional designs with modern construction techniques to create the interior of Tashya, a high-end Indian bridal store in Chandigarh. (more...) View the full article

A giant mound of sand appears to support an aluminium roof at New York studio Formlessfinder's entrance to this year's Design Miami exhibition, which opens to the public today (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Edinburgh College of Art student Peter Trimble has built a portable machine for manufacturing furniture from sand, urine and bacteria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Rattan cane encircles furniture in this collection by French design collective Numéro 111 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: New Zealand design studio Resident will launch its collection of lighting and furniture at the Edit by designjunction exhibition in Milan's fashion district on Tuesday (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article