Shipping containers are often repurposed to create buildings, and this structure by Tel Aviv studio Potash Architects features one container balanced at a precarious angle (+ slideshow). More about Angled shipping container houses a staircase for Israeli port office by Potash Architects
Studio Echelman has used more than 100 miles of rope to create a sculpture that floats high above a Boston park (+ slideshow). More about Janet Echelman creates aerial rope sculpture made of super-strength fibres
Barber and Osgerby's creative consultancy Map and technology company SAM have designed a kit of "building blocks" aimed at simplifying the creation of internet-connected products (+ slideshow). More about SAM and Map create Internet of Things toolkit for building connected products
The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the six buildings competing for this year's Stirling Prize, including a Maggie's cancer-care centre in Scotland, London's NEO Bankside housing, and the expansion of Manchester's Whitworth Gallery (+ slideshow). More about RIBA Stirling Prize 2015 shortlist announced
The windows of this art gallery in South Korea's Paju district are fritted with a pattern that regulates views of the interior, and creates the illusion of fog around the edges of the building (+ slideshow). More about White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
MVRDV's Winy Maas explains how the hollow centre he created at the heart of a Paris office block allows passersby a privileged view into the movements of a financial services company, in the latest movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). More about Winy Maas: an "open heart" reveals the inner workings of MVRDV's Pushed Slab office block
Business news: overseas architects are finding it more difficult to win work in China, according to Zaha Hadid Architects director Patrik Schumacher, as the economy slows down and the government tries to promote local talent. More about Zaha Hadid Architects embraces America as China turns against "weird architecture"
Olson Kundig Architects has extended a Washington art museum, adding a facade of movable hand-wheel operated screens to protect the artworks from natural light (+ slideshow). More about Olson Kundig's Tacoma Art Museum wing has movable screens that "roll like railroad box cars"
Business news: the former bookkeeper for architecture charity Article 25 has been charged with fraud and false accounting, after £200,000 disappeared from the organisation's accounts. More about Article 25 bookkeeper charged with fraud following disappearance of £200,000
Yves Behar has designed a connected thermostat for UK energy supplier British Gas aimed at ordinary consumers rather than technology lovers (+ movie). More about Yves Behar's thermostat for British Gas aimed at "everyone from your grandma to your auntie"
Dezeen promotion: the winners of this year's AZ Awards for architecture and design include a house featuring a staircase of wooden boxes, and tiles made from the screens of old TV sets and computers (+ slideshow). More about Sculptural staircase and recycled TV screen tiles among AZ Awards 2015 winners
Dutch studio Bloot Architecture has added a larch-clad roof extension to a 1950s summer house, featuring a glazed wall angled to frame views of the trees overhead (+ slideshow). More about Woodland holiday home updated with rooftop extension facing up to the treetops
British inventor Clive Sinclair has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce an electric version of his lightweight foldable A-Bike, with wheels that are just 13 centimetres in diameter (+ slideshow). More about Clive Sinclair launches "world's lightest and most compact electric bike"
Seattle architect Tom Kundig has designed a collection of over 100 hardware items including drawer pulls, door handles, fire pokers and shovels. He spoke to Dezeen about his "modifiable, morphable" and growing product range (+ transcript + slideshow). More about I design products "sort of like Frankenstein" says Tom Kundig
This week Bjarke Ingels unveiled plans to enliven Battersea Power Station with electric sparks (after designing a power plant that blows smoke rings) while Henning Larsen completed a building with a moving facade.
Here's a reminder of all our stories about architecture that moves, including a building that flaps its wings like a giant insect and a house with rotating bedrooms. See all our stories about moving architecture »
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Hidden behind a bookcase in a secret room, a fireman's pole offers a fast escape route from the top floor of this Berlin home by local studio NOWlab (+ slideshow). More about Berlin apartment by NOWlab features a spiral staircase and a fireman's pole
These three zinc-cloaked towers form a power plant on the roof of an old beer brewery in Sydney, which will supply energy to a new housing and shopping complex on the site below (+ slideshow). More about Metal-clad power plant by Tzannes Associates is mounted on the roof of an old Sydney brewery
Henning Larsen Architects aimed to set a benchmark for green design with this university building in Kolding, Denmark, featuring a climate-responsive kinetic facade and a triangular form (+ slideshow). More about Henning Larsen's university building has a facade that moves in response to changing heat and light
Graduate shows 2015: Bartlett architecture graduate Lauren Fresle has envisioned a water city in Israel where Jewish and Muslim communities live peacefully together against a backdrop of huge stepwells and cisterns (+ slideshow). More about Oasis of Peace is a conceptual Israeli city that promotes peace through water management
Opinion: twisting slides, a hotel room shaped like a boat and a pop-up theatre are among the "fun" recent additions to London's Brutalist Southbank Centre. Has Owen Hatherley lost his sense of humour or is there something more sinister in all these layers of entertainment? More about "The real problem with all this Fun is that it isn't really very funny"