A huge staircase interspersed with trees winds up to the entrance of this former Tokyo warehouse that Kengo Kuma and Associates has converted into a lifestyle store and cafe (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma uses a grand staircase to transform a Tokyo warehouse into a shop
Interview: every architect will soon design using 3D goggles, according to designer and visualiser Olivier Demangel, who believes that virtual architecture will be as convincing as the real thing within five years (+ movies). More about Virtual reality will be "more powerful than cocaine"
Milan 2015: Japanese design studio Nendo has created two new products for Italian furniture brand Moroso – including a stool that looks like it has missing supports (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's Float stool for Moroso looks impossible
Thank you for sharing the glove! Dezeen has beaten media giants the Guardian, CNN, Vice and Google to win the People's Voice poll for best technology movie at this year's Webby Awards. More about Dezeen wins a Webby Award!
Lebanese magazine Audio Kultur has released a limited-edition version its April issue and a series of posters printed using blood to commemorate the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 (+ movie). More about Audio Kultur prints magazines and posters in Armenian blood
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Phaidon to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book that looks back at the career of late British designer James Irvine. More about Competition: five James Irvine monographs to be won
This three-sided house in a Dutch village has two blackened timber sides that flank a neighbouring property, while its only glazed facade is orientated towards an adjacent field (+ slideshow). More about Barend Koolhaas completes a blackened timber house with a triangular floor plan
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has unveiled its design for a new library in Christchurch, New Zealand, to replace the building left wrecked after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen designs new library for earthquake-damaged Christchurch
Shelves with running water line the walls of skincare brand Aesop's latest London store, designed by local studio JamesPlumb (+ slideshow). More about Water runs from shelf to shelf in JamesPlumb's Aesop store
White aluminium panels give a ridged texture to the walls and rooftops of these residential properties completed by BURO II & ARCHI+I in a Belgian coastal town (+ slideshow). More about Homes near Belgium's coastline feature ridged skins of white aluminium
Milan 2015: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has created a seating range assembled from flat wooden planes for Italian furniture brand Mattiazzi. More about Konstantin Grcic's Clerici seating joins range for Mattiazzi