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Next up in our high-tech architecture guide, we look at Portcullis House in London, which demonstrated how the style could be used in historically sensitive locations. Read more View the full article

Adidas has partnered with designer Fabio Novembre to create patches for its VRCT jacket — a customisable and adaptive take on the American college classic. Read more View the full article

Design studio BCXSY used a seesaw as a metaphor for the creative process in their installation Reciprocal Syntax, which allows two riders to together build an audiovisual landscape through play. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Kip Hideaways to give readers the chance to win a two-night stay for four people at the Kingsbridge Hideaway in Devon, as well as a year's membership to Kip. Read more View the full article

For our latest competition we're offering readers the chance to win one of three copies of Where Architects Sleep, The Most Stylish Hotels in the World. Read more View the full article

The Wing drone delivery system developed by Google is being used to deliver toilet paper and medicine to residents in lockdown in Virginia, USA. Read more View the full article

Martina Guandalini is launching Soulmate, a range of collectable furniture pieces, for VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

CJH Studio ditched gaudy 1980s fixtures to form the calming interiors of this penthouse apartment in Gold Coast, Australia. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Stoneways is a series of pared-back porcelain surface tiles by Caesar Ceramics that take cues from rocks and their mineral veins. Read more View the full article

Kingston University graduate Wannayos Boonperm has made a series of objects by splicing together familiar household and office products, including this combined watering can and telephone (above). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Emotional Lab is a modular storage system by interior designer Hania Jneid that can be adapted to suit various spaces and changing user needs. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: design brand Diesel have created a range of lighting in collaboration with Foscarini as part of their Diesel Home Collection, presented at Superstudio Più in Zona Tortona earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This tableware by Dutch designer Jochem de Wit is made of concrete, cast glass and brick. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Plastiki boat made entirely from plastic bottles (see our earlier story) has arrived in Sydney after a 130-day voyage across the Pacific from San Francisco. More information on the Plastiki blog.See also: our story about the boat’s design.</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents possibilities for the re-use of vacant factories in former industrial towns across Russia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In anticipation of tonight’s announcement of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010 winner here are six videos about the shortlisted designs including the bookmaker’s favourite, the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (above) by Zaha Hadid Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architects have tranformed a 1930s church into a house in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shoes are displayed on conveyor belts at this store in Barcelona by Spanish firm Bailo+Rull ADD Arquitectura. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Octopus Publishing to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of The Joy of Home by Naomi Cleaver. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a house with gardens on all three levels designed by Singaporean studio Guz Architects on Santosa Island, Singapore. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul designer Jeongmi Lee has designed a conceptual domestic robot that steals your duvet in the morning and poos all over the floor. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: our most popular story this week is Zaha Hadid’s Wangjing Soho retail complex for Beijing, so here’s a roundup of all our stories about projects in China. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

 Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom, central London owner of Ligne Roset Robert Hasty talks about pieces by Jean Nouvel and Inga Sempé. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year architects Planning Korea designed a futuristic media bridge that resembled a string of bubbles, while the Dutch Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo won the best project at the Dutch Design Awards 2010, despite one of readers commenting that “the Netherlands is represented here like a crazy playground!” Less flamboyant projects that proved popular included a temple in India built by villagers using local stone, a zig-zagging extension joining the two halves of a school in southern Spain and a minimal Japanese house with a double-height glazed void in the centre. Established & Sons filmed designers creating installations in a day at their Mayfair gall…

Continuing our fifth birthday celebrations this week, here is the Dezeen team’s list of the five best parties we’ve hosted since we launched in 2006: (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article