A wooden bridge and a glazed garden room connect the two halves of this house in Matsuyama, Japan, by architect Hayato Komatsu. More »

In this next movie from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Australian architect Ian Moore, whose monochrome conversion of a former grocery warehouse in Sydney won the residential category. More »

A wave of timber undulates around the eaves of a waterside restaurant in Oslo by Danish architects MAPT. More »

The Temporium: behind the fourteenth window of our Advent calendar of products on sale at The Temporium are quirky homewares by British design brand All Lovely Stuff, including these salad servers shaped like smiling dinosaurs. More »

Dezeen Wire: retail expert Mary Portas has published a report on the future of the high street. The review was commissioned by the British government. Read the full report here or check a summary of Portas' 28 recommendations here.

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Dezeen Watch Store: we've got just two of these limited edition V01 18k watches so you'll need to be quick to snap one up from Dezeen Watch Store, either online or at The Temporium. More »

Dezeen Wire: Dutch architects MVRDV have received threatening emails and angry phone calls after revealing proposals for skyscrapers that resemble the exploding World Trade Centre on 9/11.

We published the project first on Dezeen, prompting outrage from many of our readers. One declared the images “insensitive and offensive” while another claimed “this is like 9/11 freeze framed”. More »

This prefabricated house in Portugal costs about the same price to manufacture as a family car (photographs by José Campos). More »

Norman Foster discusses the significance of two of Buckminster Fuller's most iconic designs in this movie filmed at the Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster exhibition in the Miami Design District. His consideration of the Fly's Eye Dome and the Dymaxion car leads to a description of Fuller's architectural relevance in today's society. More »

The Temporium: each piece in this jewellery collection by London designers Logical Art conceals a USB memory stick. They're on sale at our Christmas shop The Temporium until 24 December.  More »

Competition: we've teamed up with publishers Brusselssprout to give readers the chance to win five copies of their new Dubai Graphic Encyclopedia. More »

Danish architects BIG seem to have a thing for skiing on rooftops and have designed some more buildings that double up as ski slopes, this time for a resort in Lapland. More »

Chinese architects MAD have sent us new images of a museum they completed earlier this year in the city of Ordos, in the Gobi desert. More »

A triangular courtyard slices through the centre of this woodland retreat in Nagano, Japan. More »