Pixellated faces decorate the brick facades of this civil rights centre in Milan, while a bright yellow staircase spirals up through its concrete interior. More about Baukuh's House of Memory features a decorative facade and a monumental yellow staircase
Business news: Moooi CEO Casper Vissers is to step down from the company, 14 years after co-founding the Dutch furniture and lighting brand with designer Marcel Wanders. More about Moooi co-founder and CEO Casper Vissers steps down after 14 years
New York 2015: New York designer Alexander Gendell has added a chair that pops out of an artwork to his Folditure collection of fold-flat furniture (+ movie). More about Alexander Gendell's latest folding chair pops out of a wall mural
Architects are increasingly taking regular volumes and stacking them askew to create striking new forms. Well-known examples include SANAA's New Museum in New York, which resembles a pile of wedding presents, and OMA's De Rotterdam, which looks like an arrangement of upended shoe boxes. We've collected together the best examples of this trend from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.
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The industrial aesthetic of this metal-clad house in Tasmania is interrupted by a timber-lined hole through its centre that creates sheltered terraces on either side of the kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Rural Tasmanian house by Philip M Dingemanse has a terrace piercing its middle
Krueck + Sexton Architects has designed a glazed office building in the Florida everglades for the FBI, using restored wetlands to create "a beautiful moat" for security (+ slideshow). More about Krueck + Sexton surrounds the FBI's South Florida headquarters with a natural moat
Music: London animator George Wheeler sketched a Brazilian love story and inverted his drawings to create the colourful animation that accompanies this track called Meanwhile in Rio. More about George Wheeler inverts oil-pastel sketches for Meanwhile in Rio music video
A stainless-steel slide curls down through the interior of this elevated playhouse, which is topped by a crow's nest offering views over New York's Hudson River Valley (+ slideshow). More about Playhouse on stilts by Sharon Davis features a slide, a climbing frame and a lookout point
White curved walls merge into a tapered ceiling inside this yoga and meditation studio in New York, designed by Clouds Architecture Office to look like a fog has descended (+ slideshow). More about Curved walls confuse perception of space inside yoga studio by Clouds Architecture Office
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a range of wavy-edged ceramic vases that nestle together as a group (+ slideshow). More about Cloud vases by the Bouroullec brothers fit together in clusters
The lower level of this village doctor's surgery in Spain is sunken down below road level and partially embedded in a slope, allowing it to appear the same size as the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow). More about Paüls Doctor Surgery by Vora is a two-storey structure that hides its base below road level
Architecture and landscape firm Snøhetta has been appointed to develop plans for a new public access route along Willamette Falls in Oregon, the second largest waterfall in the US (+ slideshow). More about Snøhetta team to design river walk next to America's second largest waterfall
This week we reported on Rem Koolhaas's statements about "sinister" technologies, a concept for Ikea's kitchen of the future and clip-on supports that can turn any flat surface into furniture (pictured). Click through for a roundup of the last seven days in architecture and design. More about This week on Dezeen
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a studio director at Oppenheim Architecture + Design in Miami, who teamed up with Huesler Architekten to create offices in an 18th century building in northern Switzerland (pictured).
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Architecture studio SHoP and interior design firm Studio O+A have unveiled plans for a glassy new mini-campus for the firm behind the controversial Uber taxi app (+ slideshow). More about SHoP Architects unveils designs for Uber's San Francisco headquarters
New York 2015: design student Maxime Loiseau has created a set of prototype headphones that transmit sound through printed electronics. More about Maxime Loiseau's streamlined headphones feature printed electronics
An exhibition at New York's Museum of Arts and Design celebrates the work of Ralph Pucci, whose mannequin designs chronicle changes in visual culture over more than 30 years (+ slideshow). More about Ralph Pucci's fashion mannequins "mirror how we want to see ourselves"
Slim batons of timber clad the facade of this medical clinic by Alt Arkkitehdit, which is set on the edge of a Finnish forest. More about Curving wooden wall fronts Ruukki Health Clinic in Finland by Alt Arkkitehdit
Israeli artist Daniel Rozin has designed an interactive "mirror" from faux-fur bunches that change colour to create moving silhouettes (+ movie). More about PomPom Mirror creates "reflections" with tufts of fur
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior curator at the V&A's new museum in Stratford, which will occupy a site in the London 2012 Olympic Park (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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