This week Dave Hakkens' Phonebloks Lego-like phone concept came a step closer to becoming reality after he teamed up with Motorola, which has been working on a similar idea (pictured). Scroll on for more architecture and design news plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. More about This week on Dezeen
Here are some images of the restaurant inside the Serpentine Sackler Gallery extension by London architect Zaha Hadid, which opened today in the city's Kensington Gardens (+ slideshow). More about The Magazine restaurant at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery extension by Zaha Hadid
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a site architect at Heatherwick Studio, whose proposal for a garden to span the River Thames on a new pedestrian bridge is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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London designers Studio Swine built a mobile foundry and used it to cast aluminium stools from drinks cans they collected on the streets of São Paulo (+ movie). More about Can City mobile aluminium furnace by Studio Swine
The clients for this small house in Tokushima, Japan, asked architect Naoko Horibe for a timber interior and an exterior that looks like a sports car. More about Arboleda house by Horibe Associates
We've relaunched and updated our World Design Guide to the best architecture and design events to include festivals for 2014, plus read on for details of key fairs and conferences taking place this month. More about World Design Guide relaunches with key events for 2014
This house in Tel Aviv by Israeli studio Paritzki & Liani Architects has a transparent ground floor, which reveals a terracotta-brick floor that extends out into the garden (+ slideshow). More about House E/J in Tel Aviv by Paritzki & Liani Architects
Dutch Design Week 2013: graphic design graduate Evelien Crooy has made her own ink from insects and used it to screen-print the cover of a book about the creatures. More about Ink made from insects by Evelien Crooy
Chilean architect Ricardo Torrejón wanted to integrate the garden into this concrete house in Santiago, so he added huge windows at the back and glazed recesses along the front and sides (+ slideshow). More about Casa La Cañada by Ricardo Torrejón
The pieces in this chess set by American designer Stefan Gougherty are formed from voids drilled into transparent acrylic blocks (+ slideshow). More about Negative Space Chess Set by Stefan Gougherty
The folded concrete walls of this lakeside visitor centre in China's Anhui Province were designed by architects Archiplein to mimic the uneven surfaces of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow). More about Tianzhoushan Tea House by Archiplein
Dutch Design Week 2013: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans developed a technique similar to glass blowing to create these plastic lighting installations (+ slideshow). More about VAPOR blown-plastic lighting collection by Pieke Bergmans
Opinion: in his latest Opinion column, Sam Jacob argues that objects tell us more about ourselves than literature or imagery and sets out his manifesto for "a culture of design informed by archeology and anthropology". More about "The history of human culture is written not in text but in objects"
Vertical yellow and grey stripes decorate the exterior of this family house in Mexico by León firm tactic-a (+ slideshow). More about Huit House by tactic-a
Dezeen Mail issue 176 includes a phone made from modular Lego-like parts and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Our second story today featuring products presented like model kits is Italian designer Fabio Novembre's window installation for Tommy Hilfiger at La Rinascente department stores. More about I Have a Lifestyle model-kit window installation by Fabio Novembre for Tommy Hilfiger
This furniture collection by designer Silva Lovasová is based on tiny toy products that have been 3D-scanned and enlarged to full scale. More about 1:1 scaled-up dolls' house furniture by Silva Lovasová
Industrial design firm Dyson has unveiled a cordless vacuum cleaner for hard floors that sucks up dirt and wipes the surface at the same time. More about Dyson Hard two-in-one vacuum cleaner by Dyson
Utrecht studio Today Designers has created a book of nautical tales that smells like the sea because it's printed with squid ink. More about Naar Inkt Vissen book printed with squid ink by Today Designers