Naruse House by MDS has been clad using the traditional Japanese technique of Yakisugi, which involves charring cedar wood to create a blackened, weather-resistant surface that resists decay (+ slideshow). More about MDS designs blackened timber house on a sloping junction in Tokyo
London Design Festival 2014: east London design brand Vitamin has unveiled its latest range of products at designjunction (+ slideshow). More about Vitamin debuts furniture collection influenced by small-scale production
This week we published architecture for cats, the latest news from London Design Festival 2014 and continued our series on Brutalist buildings. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days. More about This week on Dezeen
News: the editor of one of Italy's leading design magazines has denied that her country's industry is in decline and believes that "Milan is still the international capital of design" (+ interview). More about Milan "still the capital of design" says Interni's Gilda Bojardi
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the final behind-the-scenes movie about our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, Pernilla Ohrstedt explains the concept behind her stand design for the show. More about Pernilla Ohrstedt demonstrates how "our world will be captured in digital form"
Opinion: the way we consume architecture online has changed thanks to social media, creating a new genre of imagery – meme-tecture. Alexandra Lange offers her guide to making an architectural meme. More about "Six points of viral architecture"
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at McDowell+Benedetti, whose apostrophe-shaped rotating bridge in Hull, England, is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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The zigzagging profile of this courtyard bar in Liverpool, England, mimics the gabled roofline of the warehouses that provide its backdrop (+ slideshow). More about Constellations Bar by H Miller Bros is a courtyard canopy made up of triangles and zigzags
Brutalism: as part of our ongoing series on Brutalism, we asked architects including Kengo Kuma, David Adjaye and Amanda Levete to reveal their favourite buildings from the radical post-war movement. More about Architects pick their favourite Brutalist buildings
News: building work has begun in Beijing on the National Art Museum of China by French architect Jean Nouvel, who beat Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid in a competition for the project in 2013. More about Construction starts on Jean Nouvel's National Art Museum of China
London Design Festival 2014: artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert explains the concept behind his glass installation at the V&A in this movie produced by Dezeen for champagne brand Perrier-Jouët. More about Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert installs "simple, geometric shapes" at London's V&A
London Design Festival 2014: architect Amanda Levete has opened a pop-up restaurant in London's Soho where tins of fish and seafood are displayed in a "a museum-type vitrine" before being dished up to customers to eat straight out of the can (+ slideshow). More about Amanda Levete's Tincan restaurant presents tinned seafood as "objects of desire"
London Design Festival 2014: designer Andrea Mancuso and architect Emilia Serra have collaborated with ceramicist Alessio Sarri to create vases by detonating gunpowder-filled wet-clay forms before firing. More about Analogia Project and Alessio Sarri shape vases with explosives