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Grey and white blinds create a chequerboard pattern against the facade of this Barcelona school by MMDM Arquitectes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A series of circular apertures puncture the rectangular concrete buttresses of a nursery in Valencia by Spanish architects Rstudio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architects Grimshaw have completed the restoration of historic tea clipper the Cutty Sark, which reopened to the public today in Greenwich. (more…) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created an aerosol spray that lets users enjoy alcohol without getting drunk or hungover. (more…) View the full article

The facade of this Melbourne house for an architect and a street artist has built-in graffiti. (more…) View the full article

London studio David Kohn Architects has created an arts venue in a former sweet factory on the edge of the Olympic park. (more…) View the full article

Concrete bricks create geometric patterns on the facade of this house in Québec by architects Kariouk Associates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A simple uniform of Irish blue limestone dresses these four mono-pitched extensions to a rural cottage on the south coast of Ireland by London firm Niall McLaughlin Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Film studio Carniolus has produced a series of movies to document the architecture of Slovenian practice OFIS Arhitekti and the first gives a tour of the 6×11 Alpine Hut, a holiday home in Slovenia’s Triglav National Park. (more…) View the full article

The illusory shadows of burning candles and unexpected assemblages of decrepit furniture make up the latest collection by British designers JamesPlumb. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob argues that instead of liberating us, 3D printing will merely "bind us even more closely to fewer and fewer corporations". (more...) View the full article

South Korean designer Wonmin Park constructed these chairs and tables from slabs of coloured resin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled a pair of leather and rubber boots for Italian shoe brand Ruco Line at the Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design exhibition in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Each tab on this credit card-sized pack by American designers Bolt Group can be torn off and used as a USB stick. (more...) View the full article

3D-printed casts for fractured bones could replace the usual bulky, itchy and smelly plaster or fibreglass ones in this conceptual project by Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill. (more...) View the full article

News: Jimenez Lai of Chicago architecture studio Bureau Spectacular has won the inaugural Lisbon Triennale Début Award, presented to an architect under 35 in recognition of an outstanding career so far. (more...) View the full article

Following the popularity of a house extension that curves around a tree, we've created a new Pinterest board filled with extensions to residential buildings. See our new residential extensions Pinterest board » Over 100,000 people now follow us on Pinterest - join them here. View the full article

Holidaymakers can now spend nights sleeping beneath the surface of the ocean at this partially submerged hotel suite in the Zanzibar archipelago (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A mixture of transparent and translucent glazing creates varying levels of privacy inside this dimly lit office created for a mortgage broker in Melbourne (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed the latest images of its design for M+, the new museum of visual culture that recently broke ground in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London stole the limelight when it reflected the September sun onto cars parked nearby and caused them to melt. (more...) View the full article

A twisting chain-link and barbed-wire fence installed by French artist and architect Didier Faustino at an exhibition in Cincinnati determines the path taken by visitors through the gallery space. (more...) View the full article

Danish designer Simon Legald has created a set of stacking melamine trays with softly rounded edges for design brand Normann Copenhagen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Irish designer Johnny Kelly has debuted a short movie that attempts to show how design impacts on everyday life using basic shapes and without words (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A 38 metre high treehouse was popular with readers last week, so we've created a new Pinterest board that collects together treetop dens, hotels and houses from the pages of Dezeen. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our stories about treehouses View the full article