Dezeen Wire: a group of Palestinian business leaders are working on a Palestinian national brand and will launch the first campaigns later this year. The move coincides with an appeal for the UN to admit Palestine as a full member state - Financial Times
German studio Archifaktur has inserted felt-lined caves and green-floored playrooms into the loft of a 1930s primary school (photographs by Zooey Braun). More
Hopkins’ hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped Velodrome for the London 2012 Olympics (above) is one of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2011. More
Amsterdam studio Sander Architecten designed cardboard meeting rooms inside a bank in the Netherlands. More
Dezeen Wire: as the UK government reviews design technology's status as a compulsory school subject, industrial designers Seymourpowell have released a movie featuring Paul Smith, James Dyson and others talking about the importance of design education. More
These dresses by Montreal fashion designer Ying Gao move as if they're breathing. More
French architect Jean-Luc Fugier has designed a contorted timber hut to house a parking ticket machine. More
Furniture designers' obsession with clamps has taken a new turn with this stool held together with one of the woodworking tools. More
London studio Post-Office have completed a boutique in Notting Hill with rails made of bronze-plated scaffolding. More
Dutch architect Dick van Gameren has converted a family house outside Hilversum by punching three faceted skylights through the roof and driving a corridor through the middle. More
A ring of mesh thorns crowns the roof of this convention centre in Zlín, Czech Republic, by London studio Eva Jiricna Architects and Prague architects A.I Design s.r.o. More
Panels woven from steel wire filter light into this combined cafe and gallery by Spanish architects MSB Estudi Taller. More
Dezeen Watch Store: the Mercury watch by Hong Kong brand Ziiiro is now available in new colours at Dezeen Watch Store. More
An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly. More
Show RCA 2011: here's another piece of manufacturing machinery that harnesses sunlight by Markus Kayser - inventor of the Solar Sinter 3D printer in our earlier story - this time a low-tech, low-energy version of a laser cutter. More
Brazilian architects Metro have completed a red glass chocolate museum in the sky. More
A diamond-shaped cabin on legs is the first of four woodland hotel rooms to be completed by French designer Matali Crasset. More