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Livaria de Vila is a book shop in São Paulo where the store front is made of revolving bookcases, designed by Brazilian studio Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto. More »

Since spring is on the way, here’s a range of metal garden furniture designed by Dutch designer Wieki Somers for French brand Tectona. More »

Architect Tsuyoshi Kawata of Japanese studio Tonoma has completed a house in Hyōgo, Japan, that’s divided in two by a narrow strip of garden. More »

Portuguese architects Risco have completed a hotel alongside the docks in Belém, Lisbon, with concertina shutters that fold back to reveal deep balconies. More »

Dezeen have got together with J Mayer H Architects to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Arium – Weather and Architecture, edited by Jurgen Mayer H and Neeraj Bhatia. More »

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a social housing project in Madrid by Spanish office Estudio Entresitio. More »

Japanese architect Akio Nakasa has completed two adjacent houses for one family, side by side in Kanagawa, Japan. More »

To coincide with Icelandic design festival DesignMarch, which began in Reykjavik yesterday, here are some parchment gas masks by Reykjavik designer Sruli Recht. More »

Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. More »

Architects Standardarchitecture-Zhaoyang Studio have completed a visitors centre next to a river in Tibet. More »

Artists Studio Job will exhibit lamps suspended from bronze models of a crane and a wrecking ball at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London later this week. More »

British designer Matthew Hilton will launch an upholstered three-legged chair in Milan next month. More »

Dutch designers Tejo Remy & René Veenhuizen have designed a collection of furniture that looks inflated but is actually made of cast concrete. More »

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven student Ricardo Ploemen has designed a conceptual chapel with wavy brick walls, using an AutoCad script to determine the structure of each facade. More »

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will launch a collection of transparent polycarbonate furniture at the Kartell showroom in Milan next month. More »