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This observation tower by Munich office terrain:loenhart&mayr rises over the river Mur at the Austrian border with Slovenia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for the latest update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including jobs with MAD in Beijing, Henning Larsen Architects in Copenhagen and UXUS in Amsterdam, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles at OMA, Tom Dixon, David Chipperfield Architects and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Melbourne practice March Studio have trapped 4500 cardboard boxes behind netting in this store for Australian skincare brand Aesop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kaspar Hamacher’s burnt stools (above, left) was one of our most popular stories over the last month so here’s a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives all about wood. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up has opened at 55 Neal Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro has converted the former house of a poet into a writer’s retreat (photos: Do Mal o Menos). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architects Liddicoat & Goldhill constructed their own north London home using black engineering bricks and slabs of white marble. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Charred timber lines this Thai bistro in Kuwait City by architect Rashed Alfoudari. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week, after just four months online, Dezeen already had a quarter of a million readers. We published our first story about a sex toy, as well as a globular building that Zaha Hadid had just designed for a square in Budapest. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. OMA started work on a study into urban growth in the Gulf, the results of which were presented recently as part of an exhibition documenting the firm’s working processes and lighting designer Stuart Haygarth designed a children’s nightlight filled with toys for a charity auction. Elsewhere on Dezeen we published even more high-profile projects that we’d seen in Milan, which included door handles designed by Zaha …

New York firm REX was another of the fifteen architects commissioned to design skyscrapers for the fast-growing Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, South Korea. They’ve proposed a tower with blocks of storeys offset from the centre and cantilevered from each end. (more…) View the full article

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design a sports complex in Ethiopia, which will include an excavated football stadium surrounded by earth stands. (more…) View the full article

A pegboard wall with customised pockets provides flexible storage at this tiny Soho office by London designers Studio Swine. (more…) View the full article

The latest movie from a series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad features Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talking about some of the iconic lights in their collection. Download the app free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Workspaces are gathered in islands of red, blue, orange or green throughout this office in Delft by Dutch interior architects i29. (more…) View the full article

This mobile home by Chinese studio dot Architects consists of a quilted cube attached to the back of a tricycle. (more…) View the full article

Jagged copper balconies emulate the topography of surrounding landscape as they fold around the exterior of this apartment block in north-east Italy by architects Plasma Studio of London and Beijing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Swedish lighting brand Wästberg has unveiled an installation of 30 lamps created from a modular set of parts by Japanese designers Nendo. (more...) View the full article

With all eyes on Rio ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian firm Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura has grouped three disused buildings under an undulating roof to create a new art museum and art school (+ slideshow + photographs by Leonardo Finotti). (more...) View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects has announced 23 winners for the 2015 edition of its annual awards, including a visitor centre for the Wild Turkey Bourbon distillery, a cube-shaped courthouse and BIG's subterranean maritime museum in Denmark (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: British firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won a competition to design a $1.5 billion hotel skyscraper on the harbourfront in Sydney, Australia. (more...) View the full article

News: Google Street View has captured the inside of its first skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, allowing users to virtually explore the tallest building in the world. (more...) View the full article

In our next movie focussing on the work of Richard Rogers, the British architect talks exclusively to Dezeen about the challenges of designing an interesting office building and explains how the new Leadenhall building in London, dubbed "the Cheesegrater", got its distinctive shape. (more...) View the full article

Product news: design studio Kawamura-Ganjavian is now producing a smaller version of its squishy headpiece for napping on the go for children (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won a competition to design the new Scotland Yard headquarters for the London Metropolitan Police. (more...) View the full article