Football players disappear beneath a grassy knoll to access hidden changing facilities at a sports ground in northern France by MU Architecture (+ slideshow). More about MU Architecture hides locker rooms under plant-covered mound
This week our MINI Frontiers movie about a man-made leaf that could enable humans to colonise space went viral and BIG unveiled a futuristic vision for zoos. Read on for architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
London Design Festival 2014: London designer Michael Sodeau has created a lightweight circular chair from Hypetex, a coloured carbon-fibre material developed by racing car engineers. More about Michael Sodeau uses Formula 1 engineering to create carbon-fibre Halo chair
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is an industrial designer position with Benjamin Hubert, whose range of moulded ceramic tableware is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Buildings that make up this house in Finland by architects OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture are arranged to protect a courtyard from the cold northerly winds blowing down the valley (+ slideshow). More about House Riihi by OOPEAA shelters a courtyard from wintery gusts
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: RCA graduate Oluwaseyi Sosanya shows us the 3D-weaving machine he invented, which he claims could be used to create better sportswear, medical implants and even architecture. More about 3D weaving can "reduce cost and improve structural integrity" in architecture
This blackened timber holiday home in northern France by Nantes studio Raum contains two mobile bedrooms that can be wheeled onto a terrace to provide outdoor sleeping cabins (+ slideshow). More about French holiday home by Raum features bedrooms on wheels
News: London architecture firms Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield have been granted planning permission for two hexagonal towers on an estate in the city's borough of Hackney (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield and Karakusevic Carson granted permission for Hackney towers
Chilean studio LAND Arquitectos named this seafront residence Catch The Views House, because of the ways it sprawls outwards to frame as many vistas as possible (+ slideshow). More about Chilean seaside house by LAND Arquitectos designed to "catch the views"
Dezeen Guide: design events are taking place in Bangkok, São Paulo and Melbourne (pictured) this month, along with five other exhibitions and festivals listed for August. More about Dezeen Guide update: August 2014
London producer Ketan Jogia has remixed Welsh folk singer Novo Amor’s track From Gold, augmenting the lush, Bon Iver-like vocals of the original song with more punctuated bass and percussion. A great summer track.
You can listen to the original track here.
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