Slideshow: this glass pavilion on the edge of a lake in Ontario, Canada, houses a studio, apartment and boathouse for a photographer and was designed by Toronto Studio gh3. More »

Designed in Hackney: this week's first iconic project designed in the London borough of Hackney is Dirty House, a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch with a brightly illuminated roof completed by architect David Adjaye in 2002. More »

Sports brand Nike have opened an east London store where shoppers can see themselves reflected on motion-sensitive LED walls. More »

This fantasy animation from our series by architectural filmakers Factory Fifteen shows a swarm of trolleys, equipment and components associated with British postal service Royal Mail colonising the sides of a building and configuring themselves into a temporary automated sorting office. More »

Dezeen Wire: fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier has been appointed as creative director of Diet Coke for Europe - Design Taxi

Milan 2012: industrial designer Tom Dixon presents two new lamps as part of an exhibition of lighting at new Milan show MOST next month. More »

Dezeen archive: following our story about a gallery pushing up from beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt last week, here's a roundup of all our stories about underground architecture on Dezeen. See all the stories »

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Spanish architects MedioMundo have completed a bright red multimedia centre amongst a collection of towering apartment blocks in Seville. More »

Air pressure and heat are varied during the glass-blowing process to make sure every one of these lamp by Canadian architect Omer Arbel is unique. More »

Light permeates this civic hall designed by Magén Arquitectos in southern Spain through blocks of alabaster in the facade. More »

Milan designers Spalvieri / Del Ciotto have created a range of calculators, clocks, torches and radios that are made of corn starch. More »

Five years ago this week a restaurant by Philippe Starck opened in Beijing filled with chandeliers and velvet, while Foster + Partners revealed plans for Moscow that involved replacing a famous communist landmark. More »

A mobile theatre will visit Clerkenwell Design Week in London this May, inspired by a miniature concert hall above a coal-shed that used to be in the area in the seventeenth century. More »

An electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. More »