Concluding our review of 2011, here are the five most popular stories from December. Up first are two skyscrapers by MVRDV for Seoul that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. These renders kicked up a lot of controversy, as reported on Dezeen Wire.

This refuge for climbers tube that cantilevers over the edge of a mountain is in second place, and was especially admired for its "Christmas-sweater paint job".

Thomas Heatherwick's redesign of the iconic routemaster bus for London comes in third. Some readers love the detailing while others think it's a step backwards.

This spiralling car park by Zaha Hadid for Miami Beach was our fourth most-clicked story in December, despite readers' scathing comments.

And finally, fifth place goes to the revamped Burger King restaurant in Singapore that’s designed to imitate a garden. You can see more stories about fast food restaurants here.

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Moving onto the most popular Dezeen stories in November, architects Snøhetta were the favourites with their Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion.

A Dutch bridge that sinks below the water rather than rising above it took second place.

Third most popular was the redesign for French outlets of fast-food giant McDonalds.

A mountain lodge with a sloping roof that you can ski over comes in fourth.

In fifth place was a pine house by the sea outside Stockholm with a glass-fronted lookout loft.

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Next up we take a look at the favourite five stories from October. Topping the list here is Passing Cloud, proposing an enormous inflatable cloud as a form of transport. 

Landing in second is another appearance here for Zaha Hadid Architects with their showroom design in London for Spanish bathroom brand Roca.

Third place was the  world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico by Foster + Partners.

A bedroom enclosed by glass on a remote Finnish island attracted fourth place on our list.

Fifth most-viewed story for this month was a library in China covered in firewood.

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Here are our five most-viewed stories from September of this year. Sleepbox came first - a small hotel room for napping in airports. 

Next up was the Dresden Museum of Military History in Germany by architect Daniel Libeskind with an angular steel and glass wedge between the existing galleries of the museum, which really fired up readers' comments.

Third most-viewed for this month was this summer house in Norway built using reclaimed material.

In fourth place was a concrete house by architect Tadao Ando in Sri Lanka.

The Club Silencio in Paris by movie director David Lynch completes our list as the fifth most popular story in September.

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Continuing our roundup of 2011, we take a look at the most popular Dezeen stories in August: Foster + Partners' designs for the new Apple campus in California made it to the top spot. 

Next up is a proposal for a 200 metre-high commercial complex in Beijing comprising three pebble-shaped buildings by Zaha Hadid Architects.

This more geographically accurate version of the London Underground tube map came in third and caused quite an argument among our readers.

A coffee shop in Poland featuring an undulating ceiling of curved plywood ribs lands fourth place, although many readers thought they'd seen the same idea elsewhere.

The fifth most popular story in August was this installation where 65,000 CDs covered the floor of a former mortuary in Paris.

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