Steel triangles protruded from a waterfall in central France to intervene with the cascade of water in this installation by artist Laurent Gongora. More about Les Cascadeurs installation by Laurent Gongora interrupts the flow of a waterfall
News: British architect Richard MacCormac, a former RIBA President and founder of MJP Architects, has died following a long battle with cancer. More about Architect Richard MacCormac dies aged 75
British architect Guy Hollaway used rusty steel mesh, silvery larch and grey cement fibreboard to clad this house on Dungeness beach – the only place in Britain officially classified as a desert (+ slideshow). More about Pobble House by Guy Hollaway is a holiday home on Dungeness beach
An alternating-tread staircase doubles as storage cupboards in this tiny Paris apartment by French architects Schemaa (+ slideshow). More about Apartment in Paris by Schemaa features a staircase made of cupboards
These new shots by British photographers Hufton + Crow document the seven extraordinary bus shelters created in a tiny Austrian village by architects including Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radić and Wang Shu (+ slideshow). More about Architect-designed bus stops in Austria photographed by Hufton + Crow
Behind a dark brickwork exterior, this suburban home by British studio Snook Architects features a double-height entrance lobby, a rugged stone fireplace and a skylight that covers an entire corridor (+ slideshow). More about Snook Architects combines brick and concrete for suburban house in Liverpool
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: exhibition commissioner Kayoko Ota says Japan's pavilion celebrates the architects that "challenged the status quo" in the 1970s, in this movie filmed by Dezeen in Venice. More about Japan's biennale pavilion challenges architects to "face the real world"
Writer Geoff Manaugh and designer John Becker have imagined a scenario in which genetically modified bees could be trained to print detailed concrete structures rather than produce honey (+ interview). More about Bees could 3D-print "concrete honey" to form architectural structures
This Vancouver house by Canadian studio Splyce Design comprises a stack of glazed boxes set into a hillside, designed to maximise ocean views and create terraces on all three levels (+ slideshow). More about Protruding glass boxes offer ocean views from Russet Residence by Splyce Design
Following the popularity of a shell-shaped shelter completed in the small English seaside resort of Littlehampton, we've collected together examples of coastal architecture from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.
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Australian office B.E. Architecture used different cladding materials to help these two apartments in Melbourne feel more like individual houses (+ slideshow). More about Stacked Melbourne apartments designed by B.E. Architecture to feel like separate houses
Feature: the visual language of glossy glass, brushed metal and soft fabric that informed the first wave of interface design for smartphones and apps might be dead, but not all designers are convinced about its replacement, reports Alex Wiltshire. More about Google's design guidelines spell the end of days for skeumorphism
Dezeen Music Project: a stack of old electronic devices and circuit boards appear to secrete blood in this music video by director Christophe Thockler for US musician Lusine's latest track. More about Electronic components "bleed" in Christophe Thockler's music video for Lusine
Dutch design duo Studio Makkink & Bey has created a series of spatial installations inside the bedrooms of a former bishop's residence in Orléans, France. More about Studio Makkink & Bey furnish research centre in former Hôtel Dupanloup
Opinion: Glasgow's Commonwealth Games is the latest major international sports event to be mired in controversy over the relocation of residents to make way for grand urban projects and "regeneration", says Neil Gray. More about "Regeneration is simply a sugar-coated euphemism for gentrification"
A narrow white wall appears to hover around the perimeter and garden of this house and atelier – the third project on Dezeen this week by Japanese office UID Architects (+ slideshow). More about Floating fence surrounds house and doll-making atelier by UID Architects
Thousands of tiny ones and zeros pierce the aluminium skin of Denton Corker Marshall's new engineering faculty for the University of Technology in Sydney, spelling out the name of the building in binary code (+ slideshow). More about Binary code patterns exterior of Sydney engineering faculty by Denton Corker Marshall
A collection of architectural gems in the sleepy seaside town of Littlehampton, fleshy furniture and a travelling abattoir made the headlines this week. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
German designer Katharina Gross has dipped brass boxes into a molten wax mixture to create a series of tables with stalactite-like legs (+ slideshow). More about Katharina Gross adapts candle-making process to create wax tables
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: RCA graduate Julian Melchiorri says the synthetic biological leaf he developed, which absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant, could enable long-distance space travel. More about The "first man-made biological leaf" could enable humans to colonise space