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Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympics opened this week, exactly one year ahead of the opening ceremony, while new aerial photos of all the venues were released and the Olympic medal design failed to impress. See all our stories about the London 2012 Olympics here. Our most popular story of the week featured a cliff-top house inspired by a Picasso painting but our favourites were a kiosk at Grand Central made from torn copies of the New York Times, a community built around public toilets and a robot that steals your covers in the morning and poos all over the floor. Meanwhile we’ve made a few changes to Dezeen’s layout and navigation - take a …

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Balmond Studio, MAD and Universal Design Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Heatherwick Studio, Marcel Wanders and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Spanish designer Roger Arquer talks about the furniture he made for his daughter using wooden spoons, rolling pins and a pastry brush. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects mihadesign have completed a Tokyo house with sloping skylights, suspended lofts and a staircase that spirals around a wall. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Elle Decoration editor Michelle Ogundehin has declared British furniture brand Habitat “as good as dead” in an article on the magazine’s blog, stating “I give it two years max” – read the blog post Ogundehin says that the retailer, which closed all but three of its UK stores earlier this year, failed to react to competition within the market and “increasingly misunderstood ‘Lifestyle’,” its key selling point. She claims that Habitat has lost its original focus on innovation and simplicity, and rubbishes plans by current owners the Home Retail Group to sell Habitat products at Argos and Homebase outlets, adding that their one remaining interest is to “flog s…

Here are some images of an extremely pointy pavilion in Tianjin, China, by Singapore studio Ministry of Design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Rotterdam studio 2by4-architects designed this gabled summer house so the walls of one corner fold open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: the front section of this shelf by London design duo Raw Edges slides down to create a work surface. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: when Johanna Agerman-Ross from Disegno magazine came into Dezeen Studio in Milan, she spoke to us about the future of print magazines and current design trends. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in the first of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Products course Tord Boontje talks about selected projects including food containers made of radioactive soil and suits for living in someone else’s skin. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian studio 20.87 has used plastic panels and LED lighting to transform an old house in São Paulo into a giant lamp (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This wearable camera by London designers ChauhanStudio and Oxford technology business OMG Life uses sensors and GPS technology to decide which moments of your life are worth photographing. (more…) View the full article

Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

MINI’s head of design Anders Warming predicts that “we’re not too far away” from driverless cars in this interview with Dezeen, recorded at the launch of the new MINI Paceman in Mallorca (+ audio + transcript). (more…) View the full article

Product news: different modular elements stack up to make these pendant lamps by Croatian design studio Grupa (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture firm Groosman Partners has suspended an office complex beneath the eight-metre-high ceiling of a former industrial machine hall in Rotterdam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A sliding plywood wall divides this OMA-designed art gallery inside a historic building in Hong Kong (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: according to manufacturers Kartell, French designer Philippe Starck has used the world's largest single-piece injection moulding to create this family of furniture shown in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Forward-thinking 
designers are using 3D printing to blow architecture wide open, as Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs reports in this extract from Print Shift, our one-off publication dedicated to the developing technology. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a creative director with skin and hair care brand Aesop, famous for its individual shop interiors. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: the world's largest free-standing museum dedicated to photography is set to be built in Morocco by British firm David Chipperfield Architects. (more...) View the full article

Architects are increasingly designing staircases that double as seating, allowing office workers to congregate between floors, circulation to be turned into event space and homeowners to curl up with a book on the landing. Here are some of our favourite stair/seating configurations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dezeen was named Digital Service of the Year at the IBP Awards in London last night - our third major accolade in two weeks. (more...) View the full article

London-based German designer Jule Waibel has launched a collection of seats made from 100 per cent wool felt that has been three-dimensionally folded under steam to create flexible pleats (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian studio Muller Van Severen will debut its latest pieces of furniture and lighting that "ooze a sort of fruitiness" at London gallery Viaduct next month (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article