Dezeen Wire: the winners have been announced for this year's Open Architecture Challenge, hosted by non-profit organisation Architecture for Humanity, with the top award going to a Ugandan proposal to build community hubs in a former refugee camp. More »

Rows of interchangeable tiles spell out what's on the menu at this fast-food pasta outlet in Tel Aviv, designed by Studio OPA as a "tribute to Scrabble". More »

Finnish design graduates Arttu Kuisma and Juho Kruskopf have produced a set of ceramic pots and vases that look deceptively squidgy. More »

Dezeen Wire: the man whose company designed the CTV building in New Zealand that collapsed during an earthquake has admitted he was aware of problems with its design just five years after it was completed, and two decades before the deadly 2011 earthquake, reports the New Zealand Herald. More »

Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about kettles by famous designers as part of our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. More »

Dezeen Wire: the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower and other areas of the Olympic Park in Stratford are now likely to be kept open to paying visitors after the end of the Paralympic Games, reports The Independent. More »

The forms of this tea service by design graduate Eunjae Lee are based on the components of an engine. More »

This holiday home by Swiss architects Hurst Song Architekten is partly embedded in the steep slopes of the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More »

German designer Sarah Böttger scaled the same rectangular shape up and down to create this tubular metal hall stand. More »

Budding novelists will lust after this writer's hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow). More »

Two console tables by Japanese designer Yuki Matsumoto can be leant against each other and linked by their drawers. More »

A tall and narrow entrance slopes down to a low and wide living space at this triangular house in Japan by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. More »

Public toilets shaped like dinosaurs (above) and a staircase for dogs feature in this week's round up of the best architecture and design on Dezeen, as well as new jobs, competitions, movies and music.

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In the next movie in our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about iconic word processing products in their collection. More »