This week a pair of commemorative structures by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois were our most clicked story, so our first top ten of the year features the most popular memorials from our archive. More »

French architects Tectoniques have completed a townhouse in Lyon that is entirely black at the front but has three oversized windows at the rear. More »

At the start of 2011 two of our most popular stories were about sex toys. New online brand Made to Pleasure invited customers to customise the shape of their toys, while designer Marc Dibeh designed one that discreetly tucks into the side of a bedside lamp. More »

Architects CZWG have completed a bronzed, hexagonal library that leans across a dock in south London. More »

This week Peter Zumthor’s memorial to suspected witches put to death in Norway captured readers attention, while David Chipperfield was confirmed as architecture curator for this year’s Venice Biennale and rapper Kanye West announced plans to launch a design company. More »

Japanese architect Hiroyuki Tanaka added diagonal walls and blue lights to this Tokyo apartment. More »

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Qubique 2011, student Milena Kling shows us an exhibition of projects from the University of Arts Berlin, which were completed in collaboration with material brand Alcantara. Watch the movie »

Italian studio LDA.iMdA Architects converted this former warehouse in northern Italy into a design showroom and then concealed it behind gauzy black curtains. More »

A ridged cloak of glazing would surround the extension to an art centre in Utah proposed by Californian architects Brooks + Scarpa. More »

Chairs that double up as ladders, clotheshorses, shelves or lamps are part of a collection of furniture by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. More »

The stairwell ascending through the centre of this Tokyo house is illuminated from a skylight and glows through translucent glass partitions. More »

Dezeen Screen: Dutch designers Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong talk about their prototype for a bicycle that plays records on its wheels as you ride, in this movie that we filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie »

This wooden house in Yokohama by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office has a garden behind its walls and a roof terrace beneath a ceiling. More »

Art and design studio CTRLZAK have launched a collection of tableware where half of each piece resembles traditional Chinese porcelain and the other side features a European design. More »