Featured category: for the summer season we’ve created a new architecture category, grouping together all our stories about pavilions, including last year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by SANAA (above), photographed by Iwan Baan. Featured category: pavilions

An irregularly-shaped glass top is supported by a network of beech struts to form this table by Italian designer Paolo Cappello. More »

Here are some more photographs of Jean Nouvel’s recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London, this time taken by French photographer Julien Lanoo. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

British designers Priestmangoode have unveiled a conceptual high-speed train for the UK. More »

Dezeenwire: the Victoria and Albert museum in London are to launch an open international competition this autumn to design an extension to the museum on Exhibition Road - Independent

This long narrow house in Okinawa, Japan, by Japanese studio Shinichi Ogawa & Associates is divided lengthways into a courtyard and living space. More »

San Francisco designer Yves Béhar of Fuseproject has designed these electric car-chargers for public and home use.  More »

German photographer Peter Nitsch has sent us a selection of his latest series of photos, documenting combined businesses and homes in Bangkok, Thailand. More »

Need a designer disguise? Estonian product designer Pavel Sidorenko has created this range of felt fake moustaches. More »

Architectural photographer Gerard van Beek shares his photographs of a heating plant in the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bonnema. More »

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Dezeen podcast: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Dyson in this podcast recorded at the UK launch of Dyson’s new floor-standing blade-less fans. More »

Michigan studios Rootoftwo and PLY Architecture have housed their conceptual models of future kitchen appliances in a paper teahouse at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »

DezeenTV: in this second movie in our Dezeentalks at [D3]Design Talents series, London designer Tomás Alonso talks about being an exhibitor as part of [D3]Design Talents at imm cologne, his favourite projects and making a mess at OKAY Studio. More »

Japanese architect Toru Shimokawa of STAD clad this shop selling eels in burnt and carbonised cedar. More »