One-minute movie: AmphibianArc's concept exhibition centre for Chinese vehicle manufacturer Zoomlion features a facade with huge flapping wings that open and close in the style of a Transformer. More
Dezeen Wire: the organisers of the London Festival of Architecture have announced that the summer fair will now take place every year.
This year's instalment of the formally biennial festival concluded last weekend and featured 16 days of exhibitions, lectures and events that took place in locations across the city. More
These pieces of jewellery by Central Saint Martins graduate Stéphanie Van Zwam are made from plastic bubbles and tubes that float around the wearer's body (+ movie). More
The rain is still pouring down this week and Londoners have become even more obsessed by the weather than usual, with Troika's board that lets you compare the current situation with the day before (above) and Michael Robinson's souvenir poster (below). More
Californian architects amphibianArc have designed a shape-shifting "transformer building" for a Chinese machinery company, with a facade that flaps like the wings of a huge insect (+ movie). More
As the tides erode the northern coast of New Zealand, this house on a sled by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan can be towed off the beach and out of harm's way (+ slideshow). More
These half-plastic, half-wicker waste paper bins by German designer Cordula Kehrer for American brand Areaware are made with the Aeta people of the Philippines. More
Dezeen Wire: Zurich financial services company Credit Suisse has published a report on the benefits that successful design brings to businesses, including a case study on Apple. More
Brazilian designers Estudio Guto Requena used audio recorded on the streets of São Paulo to distort the shapes of these 3D-printed chairs (+ movie). More
London design studio Troika have been poking fun at the British obsession with the weather with their lighting installation in an east London park. More
The last of the Ziiiro watches to be featured in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale is the Mercury watch. Rings of rotating comets display the time, like the Gravity watch. You can now buy Mercury in black and magenta for only £124 (UK and EU) or £103.33 (rest of the world). Buy now »
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