Dezeen Wire: the winners have been announced for this year's Open Architecture Challenge, hosted by non-profit organisation Architecture for Humanity, with the top award going to a Ugandan proposal to build community hubs in a former refugee camp. More about Military zones re-imagined by finalists of Open Architecture Challenge
Rows of interchangeable tiles spell out what's on the menu at this fast-food pasta outlet in Tel Aviv, designed by Studio OPA as a "tribute to Scrabble". More about Avanti restaurant by Studio OPA
Finnish design graduates Arttu Kuisma and Juho Kruskopf have produced a set of ceramic pots and vases that look deceptively squidgy. More about Drapery vases by Kruskopf and Kuisma
Dezeen Wire: the man whose company designed the CTV building in New Zealand that collapsed during an earthquake has admitted he was aware of problems with its design just five years after it was completed, and two decades before the deadly 2011 earthquake, reports the New Zealand Herald. More about CTV building flaws known 20 years before deadly New Zealand quake, admits designer
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about kettles by famous designers as part of our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. More about Design Museum Collection App: kettles
Dezeen Wire: the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower and other areas of the Olympic Park in Stratford are now likely to be kept open to paying visitors after the end of the Paralympic Games, reports The Independent. More about New plans for Olympic Park tours to preserve post-Games "afterglow" – Independent
The forms of this tea service by design graduate Eunjae Lee are based on the components of an engine. More about Silent Machine by Eunjae Lee
This holiday home by Swiss architects Hurst Song Architekten is partly embedded in the steep slopes of the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More about Holzkristal by Hurst Song Architekten
German designer Sarah Böttger scaled the same rectangular shape up and down to create this tubular metal hall stand. More about Skale by Sarah Böttger
Budding novelists will lust after this writer's hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow). More about Writer's Studio by Cooper Joseph Studio
Two console tables by Japanese designer Yuki Matsumoto can be leant against each other and linked by their drawers. More about Lovebird tables by Yuki Matsumoto
A tall and narrow entrance slopes down to a low and wide living space at this triangular house in Japan by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. More about Unou house by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates
Public toilets shaped like dinosaurs (above) and a staircase for dogs feature in this week's round up of the best architecture and design on Dezeen, as well as new jobs, competitions, movies and music.
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In the next movie in our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about iconic word processing products in their collection. More about Design Museum Collection App: computers
Different views of a courtyard were framed by this temporary installation in Montpellier, France, by Dutch architecture office Paul Scales and French architecture and design studio Atelier Kit (+ slideshow). More about Reframe by Paul Scales and Atelier Kit
Steel tubes are pinched together at intervals then slotted into corresponding grooves in plywood planks to create this shelving system by graduate designer Arttu Kuisma. More about In a Pinch shelving system by Arttu Kuisma
London design studio Bare Conductive's kits to build light-up greeting cards and houses are available as part of London design month at Dezeen Super Store. More about Bare Conductive Kits at Dezeen Super Store
Gingham and lace patterns have been screen-printed onto the tables and shelves of this Breton crêperie in west London designed by Paul Crofts Studio. More about La Petite Bretagne by Paul Crofts Studio
Rather than erasing all trace of this Kyoto townhouse's previous owners, Japanese architects Q-Architecture Laboratory preserved the earlier haphazard extensions as a timeline of the building's history. More about Timeline Machiya by Q-Architecture Laboratory
ECAL graduate Kacper Hamilton has designed a luxury axe with carbon-fibre in its handle and interchangeable heads. More about Zai CORE Axe by Kacper Hamilton