Mist cools the courtyard of this house in Kuwait City while also shielding it from prying neighbours (photos: Nelson Garrido). More »

Architecture graduate Stephan Sobl has designed an upside-down skyscraper to hang over the Colorado River in Nevada, right beside the Hoover Dam. More »

French designer Julien Carretero has used timber excavated from Eindhoven’s medieval city walls to make a series of objects that could be used in an insurgency, including a catapult and a ladder. More »

This time last year Rem Koolhaas was named Golden Lion winner by the Venice Architecture Biennale and Snøhetta won a competition to redesign Times Square in New York. More »

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Erik de Laurens has made a pair of swimming goggles, spectacles and beakers out of fish scales. More »

These photographs by Julien Lanoo show a French driving-test centre by Samuel Delmas Architectes, which is camouflaged to look like a fence. More »

Here’s another update from the cutting edge of toilet design: Copenhagen studio UiWE are working on urinals for women. More »

Dezeen Screen: in this previously unseen movie filmed during the London Design Festival 2010, Dezeen interviewed London designer Faye Toogood at her Super Natural exhibition inside a disused garage. Watch the movie »

Competition: we’ve teamed up with authors Kerstin Zumstein and Helen Parton to give away five copies of their upcoming book Total Office Design. More »

A house once occupied by Mexican communist party founder M. N. Roy has been converted into a nightclub by French architects Emmanuel Picault and Ludwig Godefroy. More »

Estonian studio Salto Architects have completed a temporary summer theatre in Tallinn made of black spray-painted straw bales. More »

This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. More »

A swirling labyrinth of cardboard conceals sculptures by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Serpentine Gallery in London. More »

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a car made of cartilage, a car park in a cafe and fashion accessories for the blind, plus all the best work from this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at Dezeen Mail issue #77 here.

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