A concrete floor merges with seating inside and outside this rusted steel and glass extension to a Victorian-style house in west London, designed by local architecture studio McLaren Excell (+ slideshow). More about McLaren Excell adds a weathered-steel and concrete extension to a London house
Following the flurry of graduate fashion shows that took place this week, we've pinned the most interesting and outrageous collections by emerging designers from the pages of Dezeen onto a new Pinterest board.
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The living and dining rooms of this house overlooking a river valley in Connecticut, USA, are contained in a timber-clad box raised up by concrete buttresses (+ slideshow). More about Bridge House by Joeb Moore & Partners straddles a site on the edge of a valley
This collection of furniture was influenced by the steel reinforcing bars that are embedded in concrete to improve its tensile strength. More about Bram Vanderbeke creates furniture based on steel reinforcing bars
Music: Australian animation studio Dropbear used over 340 painted cassette tapes and floppy disks to create the stop-motion animation in this music video for producer Opiuo's new track Quack Fat. More about Dropbear recreates retro video games using old cassettes in Opiuo's Quack Fat music video
Strips of black-stained timber give a charred appearance to this extension to a north-west London flat, designed by Fraher Architects to create a bigger kitchen for a client who loves to cook (+ slideshow). More about Blackened timber extension by Fraher Architects provides a new kitchen for a keen cook
Bangkok-based THINKK Studio has constructed a low-tech machine that lets users customise the shape and colour of their own thread lamps. More about THINKK Studio's Lanna Factory machine produces customisable lampshades
Architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales has transformed a traditional white brick house in Mexico City into an apartment complex, with the addition of a row of black penthouses (+ slideshow). More about Cadaval & Solà-Morales installs angular black penthouses during renovation of a 1920s building
A pair of glass doors, weighing almost four tonnes and measuring six metres in height, pivot out towards the garden of this renovated Antwerp home. More about Sculp IT adds "world's largest pivoting window" to an Antwerp townhouse
This week we reported on UNStudio's new university campus in Singapore, a housing development by Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, and a tiny museum in New York (pictured). Click through for a roundup of architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our regular featured music track. More about This week on Dezeen
Furniture that has been extruded and manipulated into distorted forms by Dutch designer Sebastian Brajkovic is on show at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris (+ slideshow). More about Sebastian Brajkovic exhibits warped furniture at Carpenters Workshop Gallery
The buildings of this California housing community were designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects to suit the domestic and social needs of adults with autism – the fastest growing developmental disability in the US (+ slideshow). More about California housing by Leddy Maytum Stacy addresses the needs of residents with autism
Wire lattices form the backs of this pair of chairs by Rotterdam-based Studio WM for Danish brand Menu, with one positioned the opposite way around to the other. More about Menu's WM String chairs have matching but inverted wire backs
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a project architect with Richard Meier & Partners, whose 163-metre-high Taichung Condominium Tower, is pictured.
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Graduate shows 2015: spinning light-up accessories and giant inflatable snakes feature in our design editor Dan Howarth's picks from the 2015 Royal College of Art MA Fashion presentation (+ movie). More about Dezeen's top four collections from this year's RCA fashion design graduates
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Royal Academy of Arts to offer readers the chance to win two pairs of tickets to the RA's sold-out lecture with Bjarke Ingels. More about Competition: win tickets to the Royal Academy's Annual Architecture Lecture with Bjarke Ingels
Extra Moooi: interiors could soon feature carpets on the walls as well as the floor thanks to Moooi's advanced "print on demand" technology, according to designers (+ movie). More about Moooi's new photorealistic carpets could give designers "a new kind of freedom"
London designer Dan Britton has created a typeface that's intentionally difficult to read to simulate the problems faced by people with dyslexia. More about Dan Britton's typeface recreates the frustration of reading with dyslexia
With more people working from home and property prises rising around the world, homeowners lucky enough to have outdoor space are replacing the traditional shed with studios, guest rooms and flexible work spaces. Here are 12 of the best examples from Dezeen's archives (+ slideshow). More about 12 of the best garden studios
Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects stripped a house back to its concrete frame to create this pared-back open-plan villa featuring red brick walls, pivoting glass doors and leafy gardens (+ slideshow). More about MM++ Architects replaces the old walls of a Vietnam house with red bricks and pivoting glass