Singapore recently hosted this year's WAF and Inside festivals and is home to some of the world's most innovative big architecture projects, so we've put together a Pinterest board exploring the city's best buildings – the first in a series focusing on major cities across the world.
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Italian studio Massimo Galeotti Architetto has filled in the empty corner of a house in Treviso with a timber-clad extension to provide space for a new music room (+ slideshow). More about Massimo Galeotti adds modern timber infill to the corner of an old Italian villa
Circus troupe Cirque du Soleil teamed up with drone specialist Raffaello D'Andrea to create Sparked – a short movie that transforms 10 autonomous flying machines into lampshades that seem to come alive and "dance" with a human performer (+ movie). More about Drones become a flock of dancing lampshades in this movie by Cirque du Soleil
Fashion and design studio Eley Kishimoto has collaborated with tailor Timothy Everest and graphic design firm New Future Graphic to produce a range of shirts that are hand screen printed with geometric shapes (+ slideshow). More about Eley Kishimoto creates six geometric prints for menswear collaboration
The brick exterior of this Sydney house by Matthew Gribben Architecture belies its light-filled interior, which features five secluded courtyards arranged around the perimeter (+ slideshow). More about Perforated brick walls filter light into Matthew Gribben's Five Courts House
Alexander Fehre used aluminium-mesh partitions and metal light fittings to suggest an industrial aesthetic in this showroom and office for a conveyor-belt company in Germany (+ slideshow). More about Alexander Fehre designs industrial-style office for a German conveyor-belt manufacturer
Polish design duo New Craft has created a collection of hand-blown glass vessels with copper "collars" that provide a reflection of the plants inside (+ slideshow). More about Narcissus vases by New Craft let plants bask in their own reflections
World Architecture Festival 2014: Singapore's new national sports stadium lays claim to the world's largest free-spanning dome, measuring 310-metres across, and its roof can be opened or closed to suit the tropical climate (+ slideshow). More about Singapore national stadium boasts world's largest free-spanning dome
Synthetic human body parts mounted on robots dance to dramatic music in Dance Machines, an installation by British artist Peter William Holden in London (+ slideshow). More about Peter William Holden’s Frankensteinian robots perform dance routines to music
This week we announced the 2014 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize and published two very unusual houses, including one that can float on rising floodwater. Read on for more architecture and design highlights. More about This week on Dezeen
Philippe Starck has unveiled a prototype for his latest series of prefabricated low-energy wooden homes – a glazed and aluminium-clad structure outside Paris that he and his wife Jasmine plan to move into (+ slideshow). More about Philippe Starck's new home is the prototype for a new prefab housing collection
Dutch Design Week 2014: Dutch designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe have created a driverless fabric car concept for Swedish auto brand Volvo as part of a series examining how new developments in technology will change car design (+ slideshow). More about Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe design "an experience in motion" for Volvo
London Design Festival 2014: director Deborah Spencer and creative director Michael Sodeau introduce their highlights from designjunction 2014 in this movie produced by Dezeen for the show. More about Designjunction is a place where "people can get really excited about design"
News: architects in the UK are being "cut to the bone" by bureaucracy says architect Steve Tompkins, whose firm won the RIBA Stirling Prize last night for the Liverpool Everyman Theatre (+ interview). More about The golden age is over for public buildings in Britain, says Stirling Prize winner
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior design manager at Selfridges, whose flagship store on London's Oxford Street is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Identically proportioned rooms are arranged in a grid behind the yellow-dyed facade of this house in rural Chile, designed by architect duo Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. More about Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Casa Meri contains 10 matching rooms and no corridors
"Megalomaniacal ambition" inspired the design for this huge, glossy table by Clive Wilkinson Architects, which rises and falls in a loop around a New York office, framing wood-lined nooks and corridors beneath its surface (+ slideshow). More about Clive Wilkinson creates 330-metre-long "super-table" for Barbarian Group offices
Aberrant Architecture renovated the interior of this small private school in London with brightly coloured walls and furniture that pays homage to the building's Edwardian roots (+ slideshow). More about Aberrant Architecture adds vivid colours and playful furnishings to an east London school
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: popular software packages are influencing the way new buildings look says Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, who calls on architects to develop their own code rather than using "off-the-shelf" solutions (+ movie). More about You can "spot what software has been used" to design a building
Danish studios CEBRA and Glifberg+Lykke have created an igloo-shaped street sports centre and a skate park on the harbour front of Haderslev, Denmark (+ slideshow). More about CEBRA's sports centre "grows like a mushroom" from concrete skate park by Glifberg+Lykkeskate