Japanese-Mexican sculptor Kiyoto Ota has built three wooden houses designed to make their inhabitants feel vulnerable rather than safe, including one that sucks the air from the interior and another that rains on anyone inside. More about Kiyoto Ota's wooden houses punish their occupants
Classic cars are frequently used as props when photographing architecture projects, while sometimes entire homes are designed around an owner's automobile. We've chosen 10 examples of buildings accompanied by photogenic vehicles, from a countryside retirement home to a converted windowless garage. More about 10 buildings that use classic cars to improve their image
This residence in the Hamptons by architecture studio Deborah Berke Partners consists of multiple terraces and vast expanses of glass, and includes separate gyms for husband and wife. More about Hamptons house by Deborah Berke Partners contains two workout areas
The newly unveiled BlackBerry Motion smartphone ditches the brand's trademark QWERTY keyboard, in favour of a touchscreen interface. More about BlackBerry loses the keyboard for new water-resistant smartphone
Dezeen promotion: a mix of rigid and flexible lighting panels create a grid of illuminated shapes on the ceiling of this new Baskin Robbins cafe in Seoul. More about LG Display's OLED panels create decorative lighting for Baskin Robbins ice cream shop
As part of Good Design for a Bad World, a series of talks we are hosting with Dutch Design Week, we will ask whether designers can help to solve climate change. Here are eight ideas already developed. More about Eight designs that respond to the threat of climate change
London practice Amos and Amos has created a collaborative workspace in a former Gothenburg shipbuilding warehouse for digital agency AKQA, which references traditional Swedish architecture. More about Amos and Amos takes cues from Scandinavian design for AKQA's new Gothenburg studio
Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with Swedish furniture giant IKEA and London department store Harrods. More about Top five architecture and design jobs this week include Harrods and IKEA
By making tobacco companies follow strict packaging restrictions, we're paving the way to a future where brands no longer reflect our lifestyles, argues Stephen Bayley, following the launch of his new book Signs of Life: Why Brands Matter. More about "A war against branding is a war against people"
London studio Haptic has been selected to design a new aquarium for Oslo, with a design that resembles two smoothly curved rocks stretching out to sea. More about Haptic unveils plans for domed aquarium on former airport site in Oslo
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde recently brought his Waterlicht installation to the UK. This captioned movie shows how it uses lighting projections to recreate the visual sensation of a flood, to raise awareness about rising sea levels. More about Studio Roosegaarde uses light projections to create virtual flood above Derbyshire valley
A pyramidal turfed roof tops one of several teaching and administrative spaces clustered around a multipurpose hall at this school in the Belgian city of Knokke-Heist by Amsterdam studio NL Architects. More about NL Architects completes Belgian school featuring a colonnade and a pyramidal roof
French designer Ora Ïto has cut and pieced together over 400 wooden slats to create this staircase, which twists up the Paris offices for one of the world's largest luxury companies. More about Ora Ïto uses hundreds of wooden slats for snaking oak stair at LVMH offices
Built-in wooden units and sheer, full-height curtains soften the otherwise stark interior of this apartment located within a canalside regeneration project near Antwerp. More about Arjaan De Feyter combines "light and warm materials" in converted brewery apartment
Palestinian architect Dima Srouji worked with traditional glassblowers from the small West Bank village of Jaba' to create this series of unusual vessels, which were on show at Amman Design Week. More about Dima Srouji attempts to revive Palestinian glassblowing with Hollow Forms
We've created a new Pinterest board featuring university buildings of all shapes and sizes, from Thomas Heatherwick's parsnip-shaped towers in Singapore to Wingårdhs' leaning auditorium in Stockholm. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Co-working company WeWork is opening a gym in New York, which includes boxing and yoga studios, grassy flooring and a Roman-inspired salt bathing pool. More about WeWork ventures into health and fitness with first gym in New York
HASA Architects has turned a dark and dingy apartment on the second floor of a three-storey Edwardian Terrace in London's Bankside into an all-white minimalist family home. More about HASA Architects transforms London apartment into "seamless white box"
Daisuke Motogi Architecture has completed an apartment renovation in Tokyo that features a bathroom and office wrapped in fabric walls with pockets for storing clutter. More about Renovated apartment in Tokyo has storage pockets sewn into its walls
The metal cladding of German architect Jürgen Mayer H's FOM Hochschule university building in Düsseldorf is carved into sculptural shapes that connect windows, balconies and stairs. More about Jürgen Mayer H's FOM Hochschule building features bulging balconies and seamless stairs