China's "weird" architecture, Sou Fujimoto's latest installation and a "bamboo forest" feature in Dezeen Mail issue 225. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Opinion: the refurbishment of London's Imperial War Museum by Norman Foster is a "botched" job, but it's hardly surprising given the UK's strange attitude to its own history, says Owen Hatherley. More about "So spectacularly ill-judged that you almost long for Libeskind's earnestness"
Dezeen promotion: annual hotel design event Sleep is set to return to London's Business Design Centre next month. More about Hotel design event Sleep returns to London next month
Powerhouse Company has remodelled the lower floors of a 1980s office block in Rotterdam to create a marble-lined foyer and dining space designed to emulate a hotel lobby (+ slideshow). More about Powerhouse Company remodels office foyer in marble and dark wood to resemble a hotel lobby
News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plans to redevelop the Basel campus of Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche, adding a 205-metre-high tower and a research centre (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron unveils Basel campus redesign for Roche healthcare
Dozens of rectangular openings reveal a glazed inner skin behind the yellow granite facade of this canteen building, designed by German studio Knowspace for a Chinese research campus (+ slideshow). More about Canteen building by Knowspace features a granite facade "like lychee skin"
This clock by graduate designer Rachel Suming is made of engraved aluminium plates that overlap every three hours to reveal the time. More about Rachel Suming's Eclipse clock tells the time without hands
Charred Japanese cedar clads the exterior of this split-level house in Izumo, Japan, by Kanazawa studio Harunatsu-Arch (+ slideshow). More about Blackened timber house by Harunatsu-Arch is divided by a stepped floor
Dutch Design Week 2014: experimental garments designed by this year's crop of fashion graduates from around Europe are brought together at this exhibition in an Eindhoven nightclub (+ slideshow). More about Modebelofte 2014 exhibition showcases "innovative" graduate fashion
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has created an installation in Paris' Jardins des Tuileries composed of suspended metal cubes and plants, for the FIAC art fair. More about Sou Fujimoto stacks aluminium boxes to form "nomadic" house installation in Paris
British architect David Chipperfield has completed his first project for Swiss accessories brand Bally – the interior of a flagship boutique on London's New Bond Street (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield models Bally flagship store on 1920s Marcel Breuer interior
News: British studio OS31 has won a competition to design a pop-up restaurant on the surface of a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada. More about Pop-up restaurant by OS31 will be built over a frozen river
Japanese designer Yusuke Seki has completed a second shop for modern kimono brand Otsuka Gofukuten, juxtaposing the garment with concrete surfaces and layers of green-tinged glass (+ slideshow). More about Yusuke Seki's second kimono store pairs patterned fabrics with raw materials
News: Claudio Luti has resigned as president of Milan's Salone Internazionale del Mobile after less than two years in the role, following a shakeup of the furniture fair's ownership structure. More about Salone del Mobile president Claudio Luti resigns after boardroom shakeup
A timber framework echoing the shape of an old lock-keeper's cottage has been installed on both sides of a canal in London's Olympic Park to host a two-month programme of events (+ slideshow). More about Skeletal pavilion shaped like a lock keeper's cottage pops up in London's Olympic Park
French artist Benedetto Bufalino has created a tennis court over two rooms of a gallery in Dijon, complete with fake grass, white lines and a net across the doorway (+ slideshow). More about Benedetto Bufalino transforms a former apartment into a tennis court
An assortment of mint-toned marble display plinths and golden garment rails are scattered across a poured-concrete floor in fashion designer Phillip Lim's New York store, by Campaign. More about Campaign adds opulent gold and marble to 3.1 Phillip Lim New York flagship store
Interieur 2014: Paris design studio Pool has brought together its furniture and lighting for an exhibition inside a dilapidated school building during this year's Biennale Interieur event (+ slideshow). More about Pool exhibits geometric furniture in former school for Biennale Interieur 2014
White stuccoed walls and terracotta tiled roofing create a visual connection between the simplified volumes of this small house in a Portuguese vineyard and traditional agricultural buildings nearby (+ slideshow). More about SAMF reinterprets traditional Portuguese farmhouses with Casa dos Caseiros
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the fourth extract from our latest book, Australian industrial designer Marc Newson talks through his comprehensive monograph and the history behind his Swiss watch company, Ikepod. More about Marc Newson: "Timepieces have preoccupied me over the years"