This house in Osaka by Japanese studio Tato Architects features walls that step back and forth, worktops that merge with staircases, and windows that wrap around entire rooms (+ slideshow). More about Tato Architects' House in Toyonaka is divided into offset horizontal volumes
Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has created elasticated costumes and sequinned garments for performers in his first self-directed dance production (+ slideshow). More about Hussein Chalayan debuts first dance production at London's Sadler's Wells
British studio Haworth Tompkins has completed its third building for the Royal College of Art's campus in London's Battersea – an industrial-style facility for ceramics, glass and metal-work students (+ slideshow). More about Haworth Tompkins adds another building to Royal College of Art's Battersea campus
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a CAD sculptor/digital 3D modeller at tech giant Apple, based at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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This glazed pavilion-like living space by Argentinian studio Alarciaferrer Arquitectos traverses a shallow ravine that runs through a eucalyptus forest to the shore of Lake Los Molinos (+ slideshow). More about Glass pavilion by Alarciaferrer Arquitectos bridges a lakeside gully in Argentina
Dezeen promotion: a new course for digital designers, artists and makers is due to start at the École des Ponts ParisTech next year (+ slideshow). More about ENPC to launch Computational Design and Making course in January 2016
Dutch Design Week 2015: Tilburg's TextielMuseum has worked with Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to launch a collection of plaid throws developed by Simone Post and Studio Truly Truly (+ slideshow). More about TextielMuseum collaborates with Dutch designers on plaid textile collection
Architecture studio Penda has designed a meadow containing sunken pathways and concealed meeting places, which opens next month as part of China's International Garden Expo 2015. More about Penda highlights global water crisis with meadow pathway installation
Pierre-Alain Dupraz Architecte chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance (+ slideshow). More about Pierre-Alain Dupraz houses Swiss kindergarten within quartet of concrete blocks
London designer Paul Cocksedge is exhibiting a series of furniture created by joining different metals through a freezing process at New York's Friedman Benda gallery. More about Paul Cocksedge's Freeze exhibition of metal furniture opens at Friedman Benda in New York
Opinion: sci-fi films, comic books and wild hypothetical ideas by architectural theorists like Archigram and Cedric Price have helped shape the world we live in today. Darran Anderson identifies the next wave of unwitting futurists who could change the way architecture functions. More about "Architecture's eccentrics and outsiders can be retrospectively recast as prophets"
Chicago City Council members have voted in favour of MAD Architects' controversial design for the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on the shore of Lake Michigan. More about Chicago approves MAD's George Lucas Museum plans
Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch furniture designer Piet Hein Eek has joined the debate about whether non-architects should design buildings, saying most architects are "not interested" in construction. More about "Most buildings are drawings filled in by engineers" says Piet Hein Eek
This week's Dezeen Mail features David Chipperfield's "village" of stone dwellings in China (pictured), Renault's Le Corbusier-inspired concept car and a clockwork dildo. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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London designer Michael Anastassiades has continued his use of circular shapes and balanced elements in lighting designs to create a new lamp for Italian brand Flos. More about Michael Anastassiades' Copycat lamp for Flos comprises a pair of balanced spheres
London startup Onomo has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the release of its Haize compass, which uses flashing and colour-changing lights to direct cyclists to their destination (+ slideshow). More about Onomo's "magic compass" uses LEDs to guide cyclists
Architectural illustrator Federico Babina has created his own version of the Kama Sutra, where buildings rather than people demonstrate sexual positions. More about Kama Sutra reimagined as architecture by illustrator Federico Babina
Movie: designer Dror Benshetrit and winemaker Patrick Materman explain how the craft of winemaking informed Studio Dror's geometric sculpture for Brancott Estate in this movie by Dezeen for the New Zealand brand. More about Studio Dror's installation for Brancott Estate reflects the landscape of vineyards
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has turned a paulownia tree planted by Modernist architect Le Corbusier at his Villa Le Lac into a collection of wooden objects for Cassina. More about Jaime Hayón creates decorative wooden objects using Le Corbusier tree
The São Paulo Museum of Art is recreating a 1968 exhibition design by Brazilian Modernist Lina Bo Bardi, with updated versions of her glass and concrete easels. More about Lina Bo Bardi’s "radical" glass easels revived for exhibition of Brazilian art