Today is Dezeen's eighth birthday! From chocolate penises to houses with slides instead of stairs, we've pretty much written about everything architecture and design related over the years. To celebrate, we're looking back at the most popular story from each year of our existence. More about Dezeen turns eight: happy birthday to us!
News: first it was a garden bridge to span London's River Thames, now British designer Thomas Heatherwick is proposing a floating island park for the Hudson River in New York (+ slideshow). More about Thomas Heatherwick to build 0 million "treasure island" on New York's Hudson River
News: Melbourne surfers could ride 1.5-metre-high waves within a heated salt-water pool in plans set out by local firm Damian Rogers Architecture for the city's docklands. More about Melbourne floats proposal for artificial surf park
News: Dutch studios Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond have won a competition to redesign the railway station in Assen, north-east Netherlands, with plans for a structure with a triangular latticed roof. More about Assen Station redesign by Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond to feature triangular roof
French designer Inga Sempé created this pinboard for Danish brand Hay from metal mesh so users can add extra storage components and accessories to make it more useful (+ slideshow). More about Inga Sempé's modular pinboard for Hay tidies away small items
Gaps in the upside-down barrel-vaulted ceiling of this Japanese church by Takeshi Hosaka funnel slices of light into the concrete-lined hall (+ slideshow). More about Six inverted arches outline the roof of Shonan Christ Church by Takeshi Hosaka
An arched framework of curving pine ribs gives this chapel in Finland by Sanaksenaho Architects a shape more akin to a boat than a building (+ slideshow). More about Copper-clad chapel in Finland has a curving wooden frame like a ship's hull
Danish brand Howe is relaunching a chair designed by Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen for his 1950s Munkegaard School. More about Arne Jacobsen's Munkegaard chair reintroduced by Howe
This muddy-toned timber house by Graz-based Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten is raised on stilts above a sloping site so that it overlooks a swimming pond (+ slideshow). More about Black house by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher is raised above a bathing lake
Engineering student Alejandro Plasencia has created biodegradable fishing nets and tracking tags for fishermen to help stop aquatic mammals getting trapped in lost trawling equipment (+ movie). More about Biodegradable fishing nets could prevent sea mammal deaths
French fashion house Dior's flagship store in Tokyo by Japanese studio SANAA has had its interior overhauled by American architect Peter Marino (+ slideshow). More about SANAA's Dior Omotesando store receives Peter Marino refit
Wooden panels and doors slide across the geometric floor tiles that Nook Architects uncovered during the remodelling of this narrow Barcelona apartment (+ slideshow). More about Sliding wooden partitions divide Nook Architects' latest Barcelona apartment
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is hosting an exhibition of work completed by Studio Wieki Somers over the past decade, including a collection of lamps based on sixteenth century Japanese Samurai flags (+ slideshow). More about Studio Wieki Somers presents retrospective exhibition at Rotterdam museum
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Australian studio Philip Stejskal Architecture has equipped a white timber extension to a 1890s duplex with shutters and sliding panels that camouflage with the walls when closed. More about House by Philip Stejskal can be "locked down" with shutters that blend into the facade
Dutch Design Week 2014: these textiles by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alexandra Stück are infused with different remedial herbal scents to make the wearer feel calm, focused or horny. More about Alexandra Stück's Herbal Kneipp Textiles use scent to promote wellbeing
Music: this video by New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford shows a series of experiments that demonstrate how sound waves affect different types of matter. More about Nigel Stanford makes sound visible for Cymatics music video
An angular black roof rests on the concrete and brick walls of this pavilion that architecture studio TAKA designed for a cricket club in Dublin (+ slideshow). More about TAKA completes brick and concrete pavilion for a Dublin cricket club
News: Oslo-based Neue Design Studio has won a competition to redesign Norway's passports and ID cards, a month after graphics by Snøhetta were chosen for the country's new bank notes. More about Norwegian travel documents given a minimal makeover
Designer Ernesto D Morales has proposed a spoon made out of magnifying glass as part of a series of absurd products for his fictional company Object Solutions (+ movie). More about Magnifying spoon designed to detect contaminants in food