A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion based on the lightweight shell encasing the wings and abdomen of a beetle is the second structure revealed this week from the team of architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart (+ movie). More about University of Stuttgart unveils carbon-fibre pavilion based on beetle shells
Amsterdam designer Tuomas Markunpoika has glued together pencils and milled them into vessels streaked with the coloured leads (+ movie). More about Tuomas Markunpoika mills coloured pencils to create Amalgamated vases
News: London studio ScanLAB has worked with fashion brand Vivienne Westwood to produce the first fashion shoot created with 3D laser scanners instead of cameras (+ movie + interview). More about ScanLAB and Vivienne Westwood collaborate on first laser-scanned photoshoot
Vienna-based musician and producer Noemi Bolojan has remixed American rock band Cage the Elephant’s track Take It Or Leave It, replacing the jagged guitar of the original song with gentle, swooshing synths and shuffling electronic percussion.
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London firm Stanton Williams has transformed the training facility it designed for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games into a major sporting venue for the UK's hockey and tennis organisations (+ slideshow). More about Stanton Williams converts Olympic training venue into hockey and tennis centre
Opinion: as architects in Chicago prepare to protest against declining working conditions, Mimi Zeiger argues that the industry needs to take radical action to gain the recognition it deserves. More about "It's time for architects to make their own demands"
Smiljan Radić's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and an interview with the millionaire businesswoman who transformed Fogo Island with cutting-edge architecture lead this week's Dezeen Mail issue 208. Read on for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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An apartment at Modernist architect Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille has undergone a colourful refit by French designer Pierre Charpin (+ slideshow). More about Pierre Charpin refits Appartement N°50 in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse
Beijing office Vector Architects installed a louvred wall of weathered steel mesh along one facade of this visitor centre on a farm near Kunshan, China, to shade the interior from the low evening sun (+ slideshow). More about Red mesh shades the interior of a farm visitor centre by Vector Architects
Stockholm designers Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho added different shaped holes to the stackable wooden blocks that make up this flexible shelving unit, creating spaces suited to displaying various items. More about Room shelving system functions like a huge shape-sorter toy
Handcrafted woven bamboo screens are suspended in sections to cover the ceiling and walls of this Isabel Marant boutique in Bangkok by Parisian studio Ciguë. More about Ciguë designs woven bamboo screens for Isabel Marant's Bangkok store
Folded aluminium panels create vertical and horizontal pleats across the walls of this music conservatory and concert hall completed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in the south of France (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma's Aix en Provence Conservatory of Music boasts pleated aluminium walls
This inflatable bag by Royal College of Art graduate Peng You is designed to keep electronic devices safe from knocks and bumps. More about Peng You's Fugu bag inflates to protect your gadgets