Construction has begun on the new OMA-designed headquarters for fashion brand G-Star RAW in Amsterdam, which will feature a facade that slides open. More »

Dezeen Wire: Dutch architecture and design publishers NAi Publishers and 010 are to merge and will be known as nai010 publishers from 1 July . More details on the NAi website.

Related: last month venerable Swiss architectural publisher Birkhäuser went into administration.

These carafes by Zurich designer Anna Blattert of Swiss collective Postfossil incorporate little baskets to hold fresh ingredients like lemon or mint for making flavoured tap water. More »

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: last week the Dezeen team were at Clerkenwell Design Week in London, where highlights included an archway clad in wooden hexagons, a tiny mobile theatre and a basket-making machine that stops working when nobody’s looking, as well as our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up. Here's a slideshow capturing these projects and a few more of the best bits. More »

Slideshow: Huge glowing baskets surround the staircases of this former slaughterhouse in Madrid that Spanish architects Churtichaga+Quadra-Salcedo have converted into a cinema. More »

 
Following the popularity of the bookcase without shelves that we published earlier this week (above, top right) here's a roundup of the ten most-clicked stories from Dezeen featuring more clever ways to display your reading material.  More »

 
Five years ago this week Dezeen was in Dubai, reporting on the jaw-dropping architectural projects being proposed for the Gulf states including a raised city in the shape of a cloud, an inhabited mountain-top dam and a convention centre that resembles the Death Star. More »

 
This time last year Dezeen focussed on car design, filming a movie about the Jaguar C-X75 electric concept car, boosted by jet engines, and rounding up our top ten cars of all time from the pages of Dezeen. More »

Atelier Van Lieshout arranged its new furniture pieces for Dutch company Lensvelt around an enormous blue cannon at Ventura Lambrate last month. More »

This week we've created a Pinterest board with all the best images of lamps from Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest »

Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that's specifically designed not to be accurate. More »

Here's another soundscape to relax to while enjoying the sun this weekend, a beautifully serene electro-acoustic track by Anders Brasch-Willumsen (aka Lydomslag).

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Designed in Hackney: Banksy is now the world's best known graffiti artist but he became famous for his work in Hackney and we've created a map to chart the locations of his stencil work in the borough.  More »

 
The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was overshadowed this week by news that one designer had been arrested while installing his project in the city and accused of "planting false bombs", which our readers labelled a "titanic over-reaction" and indicative of the "hysteria and squareness of NY authorities". More »