Competition: we’ve teamed up with structural engineers Fluid Structures to offer Dezeen readers the chance to win one of ten copies of their book, entitled Adventures in Engineering. More »

Zaha Hadid Architects have released new renders of a 200-metre-high commercial complex designed for Beijing. More »

These vases made of sand are shaped according to the principles of an old Japanese game. More »

A stainless steel net takes the place of a banister around the staircase and first floor corridor of this apartment in Prague. More »

Dezeen Screen: here’s an animation of how the two memorial fountains on the World Trade Centre site in New York will look when they open in three weeks time. Watch the movie »

Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn writes for the New York Times about London designers BERG, whose work is on show as part of the exhibition Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until 7 November - New York Times

See Berg’s redesign of the standard till receipt in our earlier story.

Mirrors lining the ceilings and walls of a tiny pop-up clothing shop in Warsaw create the illusion of endless rails of garments.  More »

These wallets and spectacle cases are each made of a single piece of leather that’s been folded into shape then hardened in boiling water. More »

Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here’s an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. More »

London Design Festival 2011: London designer Makiko Nakamura will exhibit a tea set engulfed in flowers and foliage at Tent London during the London Design Festival next month. More »

Herringbone brickwork and fretted screens decorate the facade of two apartment blocks in Prague. More »

In the last few weeks we’ve published a few projects that intentionally look as though the builders haven’t left yet. Here’s a roundup of all the apartments, salons and shops on Dezeen that feature patches of plaster, scaffolding, dangling wires and hoarding-like woodwork. See all the stories »

Long, narrow windows cut across the sides of a house in Okayama, Japan, to reveal the locations of internal walls and floors. More »

Once filled with water, a pond at the centre of this museum in Madrid will be crossed via a meandering route of stepping-stones. More »