News: a gagging order preventing architects, engineers and builders from promoting their involvement in the London 2012 Olympics has been lifted after the UK government paid £2 million to the British Olympic Association. More about Architects of London 2012 Olympics see gagging order lifted
Portuguese studio Aires Mateus has transformed a house in Portugal into a bright white building with a sprawling extension (+ slideshow). More about House in Alcobaça by Aires Mateus
Dutch designer Roeland Otten uses mosaic tiles, paint and photographic prints to disguise scruffy public buildings like this former public toilet in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More about City Camouflage by Roeland Otten
Products are displayed amongst an array of colourful metal wireframes at this pharmacy in Madrid by interiors studio Stone Designs (+ slideshow). More about De los Austrias Chemist by Stone Designs
A tree-filled courtyard is glimpsed through the shimmering glass-brick facade of this house in Hiroshima, designed by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura (+ movie). More about Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Board-formed concrete walls mirror the grained texture of timber screens at this hillside house in Chile by Santiago-based Gubbins Arquitectos. More about Casa Mava by Gubbins Arquitectos
An open fire welcomes visitors to this egg-shaped hut built by Danish studio SHJWorks on the edge of a Copenhagen park (+ slideshow). More about Fire Shelter 01 by SHJWorks
In the last movie about our Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations, designer Paul Cocksedge demonstrates how calling a neon phone number suspended in the air generates a guaranteed smile. More about "The floating illuminated telephone number had no explanation" - Paul Cocksedge
Dezeen archive: after publishing a herringbone-clad cinema in the south of France earlier this week (top right), we've filled our latest archive with all the unconventional cinemas featured on Dezeen. See all our stories about cinema design »
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Here are the first photographs of Jean Nouvel's Tour Horizons, an office block in Paris that looks like a pile of three separate buildings (+ slideshow). More about Tour Horizons by Jean Nouvel
Cologne 2013: Berlin-based product designer Daniel Becker has created a set of ceramic tiles that let stoves give off more heat. More about Berlin stove tiles by Daniel Becker Design Studio
In this movie we filmed, Aberrant Architecture director David Chambers tells the story of a Covent Garden tradesman whose collection of pennies inspired their aerial installation for Seven Designers for Seven Dials curated by Dezeen. More about "We were fascinated by what to do with all these coins" - Aberrant Architecture
Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta of Fabrica made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti from coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes. More about Egg of Columbus by Valentina Carretta of Fabrica for Seletti
This week 3D printing has been in the spotlight on Dezeen, with a boom in demand for 3D-printed sex toys (above) and the race to be first to print an entire building (below). Scroll on for more 3D printing news and our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
Toronto studio Hot Pop Factory has customised Pez sweet dispensers with 3D-printed heads of customers to replace the usual cartoon characters. More about Pez Hacking by Hot Pop Factory
These new shots by photographer Ty Cole document the scene at Louis Kahn's Four Freedoms Park in New York, which opened to the public in autumn 2012 almost 40 years after it was designed (+ slideshow). More about Four Freedoms Park by Louis Kahn
News: Apple has trademarked the design and layout of its retail stores, nine years after the first Apple Store opened in Virginia, USA. More about Apple trade marks "distinctive design" of its stores
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 will be called Fundamentals and will chart the emergence of "a single modern language" in global architecture, its director Rem Koolhaas has announced. More about Rem Koolhaas reveals title for Venice Architecture Biennale 2014
News: the rise of affordable 3D printers is sparking a boom in demand for personalised sex toys that can be ordered online or printed at home. More about Cheap 3D printers fuel home-printed sex toy "phenomenon"
Illustrator Vic Lee tells us how his banners depicting the former names of Covent Garden streets hark back to the area's sordid past in the next of our Seven Designers for Seven Dials movies about aerial installations curated by Dezeen. More about "Victorian Seven Dials was known for shady characters and wayward ladies" - Vic Lee