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Vienna architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to design the new Centre for Promotion of Science in Belgrade, Serbia, with this design supported on a network of diagonal stilts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple amid a flurry of praise for his contributions to the design world, although Dezeen readers slammed designs for the new Apple headquarters by Foster + Partners only last week. Zaha Hadid released new images of her enormous retail complex for Beijing, Henning Larsen Architects completed the Harpa Concert and Conference Centre in Reykjavík and we rounded up all our stories about interiors that don’t quite look finished. Herzog & de Meuron finally launched a website, although it didn’t go down too well on Twitter. www.zaha-hadid.com and www.rosslovegrove.com have also had recent makeovers – tell us what you think her…

Dezeen Screen: in this film from the Tales of the Hunt series by Brussels gallerist Victor Hunt, designers Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer of Raw Edges show how they make furniture with a pleated, paper-like skin that’s strong enough to sit on. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we featured a couple of intriguing aviation stories: our readers were amused and bemused by a transportation concept resembling a floating inflatable cloud, while Foster + Partners completed the world’s first commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Meanwhile, a proposal for an office completely covered in digital adverts drew unfavourable comparisons to sci-fi film Bladerunner and two universities got new digs: a former granary was transformed by Stanton Wiliams into a campus for Central Saint Martins in London and Steven Holl Architects released images of an aluminium clad sports centre for Columbia University that is under construction in Ne…

The perforated brick walls of this triangular house in Barcelona overlap at the corners. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A wave of timber undulates around the eaves of a waterside restaurant in Oslo by Danish architects MAPT. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This small rusty cabin designed by Oslo architects Manthey Kula provides public toilets along one of Norway’s tourist routes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The two storeys that London architects Project Orange have added to the roof of a redundant brick warehouse in Sheffield look like another building stacked on top. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: Australian designer Marc Newson presented this child’s rocking horse for Italian brand Magis at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) View the full article

More hidden furniture: French designer Paul Menand has created a stool that hides two others inside it. (more…) View the full article

Vertiginous swimming pools will cantilever like diving boards from every apartment in this tower proposed for Lima, Peru, by Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

French designers Ciguë modelled this north London store for skin and haircare brand Aesop on a 1930s medical laboratory. (more…) View the full article

Hungarian studio Budapesti Műhely has restored the interior of one of Budapest’s oldest bathhouses by replacing the vaulted walls of the warm water hall and shower room, leaving the bubble-shaped backs exposed (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: this limited-edition watch designed by London brand Mr Jones Watches tells time using coloured dots on a 24 hour mechanism. Satellite by Mr Jones Watches is now available at Dezeen Watch Store where we have just five signed and numbered timepieces available to buy with free worldwide shipping. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a call for senior architects in Beijing for MAD, the firm behind projects such as the Ordos Museum in the Gobi desert and more recently the twisting Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada (pictured above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: Rem Koolhaas' OMA has won a competition to design a financial office tower in Shenzhen, China, the firm's second building in the city after the soon-to-complete Shenzhen Stock Exchange. (more...) View the full article

News: a conceptual proposal for huge buoyant umbrellas that rebuild polar ice caps has been awarded first prize in this year's eVolo Skyscraper Competition. (more...) View the full article

News: Boston's public transport authority has launched a competition to redesign the city's subway map. (more...) View the full article

German artist Tobias Rehberger has created a temporary replica of his favourite Frankfurt bar in a New York hotel and covered the entire thing in bold geometric stripes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Children's bedrooms and play spaces take over the partially exposed subterranean floor of this house completed by Scandinavian firm CF Møller on the edge of a wood in Aarhus, Denmark (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week's issue of Dezeen Mail leads with a giant mirror installation that shows visitors scaling a London townhouse (pictured) and features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 158 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Offset gabled volumes form a new classroom and play area at this infant school in Oxfordshire, England, by local firm Jessop and Cook Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: in our final video interview with Hella Jongerius, the Dutch designer explains why she prefers to work with a small group of clients and says that building a long-term relationship with a company is a more sustainable way of working than designing collections for different brands each year. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Colin Seah of Ministry of Design shows us examples of how Singapore is responding to the challenge of housing a growing population without sacrificing its green spaces in our second movie from the city. (more...) View the full article

Paris designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have installed a chandelier at the entrance to the Château de Versailles, France, comprising looping cords of illuminated crystal (+ movie). (more...) View the full article