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Architect Keiichi Hayashi of Japan has converted this traditional timber townhouse in central Kyoto into a cosmetics store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The façade of this house in Valencia by Spanish architects BBLab Arquitectos is punctured with a pattern of circular holes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mark Nixon of London studio CZWG has turned a bridge in Aarhus, Denmark, into a musical instrument by hanging metal pipes from the underside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Barcelona cafe looks more like a warehouse, with everything from sofas to fridges housed within tall shelving units. (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, Hopkins Architects and Sugru, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with David Chipperfield Architects, Marcel Wanders and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese architects MAD have sent us new images of a remote museum they completed earlier this year in the Gobi desert. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ribbed timber framework folds around the walls and ceiling of this bar in Porto by Portuguese studio AVA Architects (photos by José Campos). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. (more…) View the full article

We just sent the latest issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter, which leads with the completion of London’s Olympic venues and, in particular, our readers’ horrified reaction to Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture (above). One commenter described as an “evil scientist’s lair“. Also included in this issue are all the latest jobs, competitions (including how to win a £520 bike), music tracks plus the usual round-up of the best stories and comments from the past week. Read Dezeen Mail issue 101 » Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

This picture frame by Odoardo Fioravanti is specifically designed to annoy people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been named Digital Business Publisher of the Year 2012 by the Association of Online Publishers. Judges of the AOP 2012 Awards described Dezeen as “A smart entrepreneurial brand, with beautifully designed products – from websites to pop-up shops. Strong evidence of experimentation, fast growing revenue and audience”. (more…) View the full article

This small faceted house by Japanese studios D.I.G Architects and Nawakenji-m is embedded in a steep slope overlooking the city of Nagoya (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio i29 have coated everything in grey at this pop-up furniture shop in Amsterdam. (more…) View the full article

While OMA is busy finalising designs for a new home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the arts organisation has temporarily moved into a pavilion with cardboard columns by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: social responsibility has fallen down the agenda of today’s designers and design schools, according to the author of a new history of Ulm School of Design, the German institution that reshaped design education in the 1950s and 1960s. (more…) View the full article

Los Angeles firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has restored a nineteenth century coach house in Dublin, Ireland, and inserted a contemporary house in front of it (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: British industrial design brand Dyson has launched a combined tap and hand dryer so hands can be both washed and dried without leaving the sink. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Dutch designer Frederik Roijé presents a tall outdoor heater shaped like a factory chimney in the Tortona district of Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has come up with a stove for the developing world that uses a two-thirds less wood than a traditional cooking fire (+ movies + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: these sofas with exaggerated seams by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola are now in production with Italian furniture brand Moroso. (more...) View the full article

Visitors to this restaurant near Shanghai can enter by crossing a bridge over a lily pond or ascend onto its plant-covered roof to enjoy views of the adjacent lake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian studio Areal Architecten inserted this brick and concrete townhouse into a residential streetscape in Mechelen near Antwerp. (more...) View the full article

Movie: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius explains why she enjoys working with colours and textiles rather than designing full pieces of furniture in the third video interview we filmed at her studio in Berlin. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Arvinius + Orfeus to give away five copies of a book about Danish studio BIG's patterned park in Copenhagen. (more...) View the full article

News: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won a competition to design a new centre for social sciences at the London School of Economics. (more...) View the full article