Raised terraces cantilever out from both sides of this Alpine retreat by architects Christine Arnhard and Markus Eck, allowing occupants to extend their dining room into the garden (+ slideshow). More about Holzhaus am Auerbach features projecting terraces that extend the living space outdoors
British inventor Dominic Wilcox has designed a series of playfully absurd breakfast accessories for Kellogg's to encourage children to eat in the mornings (+ movie). More about Dominic Wilcox's breakfast inventions include cereal delivery drone and a "soggy-o-meter"
This ballet studio in Japan by Y+M Design Office is topped by a large pointed roof with curving eaves and is lifted above the ground by a small cement-rendered podium (+ slideshow). More about Top-heavy ballet school by Y+M Design Office features an oversized roof
Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled designs for a verdant university campus in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring tree-covered rooftops, balconies and a plant-filled courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia unveils tree-covered university campus for Ho Chi Minh City
Magnets have long been used as a way of creating temporary connections for products as diverse as flat-pack furniture and bike lights. But now designers are finding increasingly weird and wonderful uses for them, with recent examples including wallpaper, spiky shoes, fluid clocks, and even a hoverboard. See all of our stories about design with magnets »
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Graduate shows 2015: Taiwan designer Guan-Hao Pan has created a set of condom packages modelled on phallic vegetables, which users can hold to determine the correct girth for their contraceptive sheath (+ slideshow). More about Condom packaging based on different vegetable girths to help choose the correct fit
Opinion: architects' proposals for pre-empting and adapting to the natural crises brought about by climate change aren't necessarily as superficial and politically correct as they may seem, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "These initiatives represent an opportunistic desire to play with extreme conditions"
This week's Dezeen Mail includes the world's first technique for 3D printing with molten glass (pictured), Zaha Hadid's campaign to resuscitate her Tokyo Olympic stadium, and a house embedded into a cliff in Chile. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Movie: next in our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director discusses Daniel Libeskind's angular metal pavilion from 2001, which she likens to a folded paper sculpture. More about Daniel Libeskind's 2001 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was folded "like a piece of origami"
Following the popularity of the fairytale-inspired House for Essex, FAT co-founder Charles Holland is working on a second house for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project on a site in north London. More about Charles Holland plans Hampstead house for his second Living Architecture project
French artist Charles Pétillon has installed a giant cloud of balloons under the roof of the 19th-century Market Building in London's Covent Garden (+ movie). More about Charles Pétillon fills Covent Garden market with 100,000 white balloons
Architect Frank Gehry has conceived five distinct but interrelated buildings for a prominent site along LA's famous Sunset Strip. More about Gehry unveils design for mixed-use development on LA's Sunset Strip
Exclusive interview: Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair describes the work he is conducting in Syria with his latest venture, and tells Dezeen that he'll "die happy" knowing that he will never win the Pritzker Prize (+ transcript). More about "When I said architects should get involved in humanitarian issues, people laughed at me"
London Design Festival 2015: London product designer Ariane Prin has launched her debut homeware collection, which includes pots, trays, vases and jewellery boxes with a rusty tinge. More about Ariane Prin mixes metal dust into Rust homeware range
Architect Michail Georgiou merged two forms typical in Byzantine church architecture to create the unusual curved shape of this chapel in Cyprus (+ slideshow). More about Greek Orthodox chapel in Cyprus by Michail Georgiou features a two-humped profile
Homeware retailer Vipp has partnered with Danish ceramicist Annemette Kissow to launch a seven-piece breakfast range (+ slideshow). More about Vipp partners with Annemette Kissow to launch first ceramics line
Singapore studio Formwerkz Architects took references from traditional Islamic design to create the intricately patterned and moulded surfaces of this mosque (+ slideshow). More about Singapore mosque by Formwerkz Architects features latticework based on Islamic patterns
A corridor functions as an indoor garden for this small house in Toyota, Japan, above which architect Katsutoshi Sasaki has installed a series of wooden sleeping platforms. More about Katsutoshi Sasaki's House in Yamanote features sleeping platforms raised over an indoor terrace
Danish design duo GamFratesi has incorporated patterned cane panels into a collection of steam-bent furniture for Gebrüder Thonet. More about GamFratesi pairs bent wood and rattan for Gebrüder Thonet furniture line
Kennedy & Violich Architecture has enlarged a 1970s brick building at Harvard University by creating two new levels topped with a pitched roof. More about Kennedy & Violich adds copper-clad volume to the top of a Harvard building