Food design studio Bompas & Parr has made whisky tasting more theatrical by using a church organ to heighten the perception of different flavours while drinking. More about The Flavour Conductor by Bompas & Parr enhances different flavours in whisky
News: Norway's central bank has selected pixellated designs by Oslo design studio Snøhetta to feature on the back of the country's new banknotes. More about Snøhetta graphics to feature on Norwegian banknotes
This rural Argentinian home by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos was built from intersecting slabs of timber-imprinted concrete and sheets of glass (+ slideshow). More about Concrete cabin by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos built in an Argentinian woodland
Books are displayed on thin suspended beams that double as garment rails at this minimal Tokyo concept store by Japanese studio Nendo (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's grid of suspended bookshelves hangs above shoppers in Beige fashion boutique
World Architecture Festival 2014: Singapore's creative industries are moving out of the central business district to more affordable light-industrial areas, says architect Colin Seah, who has recently completed a layered workplace building in the Pasir Panjang neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about Ministry of Design's 100PP joins a wave of "edgy and interesting" buildings for Singapore creatives
Korean design studio 11+ has created a portable humidifier with a transparent bottle, minimal monochrome packaging and a red USB charging cable (+ slideshow). More about 11+ designs USB-powered portable humidifier
UNStudio has completed a theatre in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse, featuring a spotty facade that glows purple at night and an auditorium with a ceiling that moves to improve acoustics (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio's Theatre de Stoep improves its acoustics with a moving auditorium ceiling
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has reinterpreted a traditional Basque vessel in ceramic to serve water from a local aqueduct in the region's restaurants. More about Patricia Urquiola designs slanted water jug for Bilbao restaurants
World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Ole Scheeren has revealed more about the motivations behind The Interlace, an "important prototype" for housing where horizontal buildings are stacked diagonally across one another to frame terraces, gardens and plazas (+ slideshow). More about Ole Scheeren's The Interlace envisioned as "a blatant reversal" of tower-block housing
A solo exhibition of Dutch designer Aldo Bakker's sculptural furniture, including a minimal swing and a number of more ambiguous objects, is on display at a Rotterdam gallery (+ slideshow). More about Aldo Bakker exhibits new designs at Galerie Vivid Rotterdam
News: technology company Microsoft's research branch has combined projection mapping with motion sensors to turn enclosed spaces into immersive augmented experiences. More about Microsoft's RoomAlive transforms any room "into an augmented interactive display"
Vienna Design Week 2014: Bulgarian designer Valentin Vodev has launched a folding bike that can be wheeled when folded and uses a magnet to create the locking system that holds the frame together (+ slideshow). More about Valentin Vodev's Vello bike folds with "a simple kick" thanks to one big magnet
Dutch studio i29 has refitted the interior of a two-bedroom garage conversion in the centre of Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More about i29 converts Amsterdam garage into a single-storey apartment
Pneumatic arms lift the walls of Sean Godsell's MPavilion, the project billed as Australia's answer to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which opened to the public today in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens (+ slideshow). More about Sean Godsell unveils inaugural MPavilion designed to "bloom like a flower"
A collection of differently sized cuboids make up the volume of this family house in Shiga, Japan, designed by architect Kouichi Kimura to offer "versatile spaces" with "light and scenery" (+ slideshow). More about Kouichi Kimura's Scape House uses a variety of windows to create a hierarchy of views
Vertical strips of masonry wrap around the buildings and playgrounds that make up Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, a new preschool in Copenhagen by Danish studio COBE (+ slideshow). More about COBE's Copenhagen kindergarten designed as a "village for children"
Comments update: a proposal to create a £600 million floating cycle path on London's River Thames was the most debated project on Dezeen last week. More about "If this is the answer then you are asking the wrong question"
The top floor of this former Soviet telecommunications building in the centre of Moscow has been converted by studio Archiproba into an open plan office for a technology company (+ slideshow). More about Archiproba transforms 1920s telecommunications building into offices in Moscow
This small portable lamp by ECAL graduate Claudio Gatto is powerful enough to be used on a balcony, in the basement or at the park. More about Claudio Gatto's Bolla rechargeable LED lamp works both indoors and outdoors
World Architecture Festival 2014: an image of the cavernous white interior of Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center has been named architectural photograph of the year, from a shortlist that also featured a twisted skyscraper and a sunken flea market (+ slideshow). More about Architecture photographs of the year revealed