A timber-clad box punctuated by narrow windows rests on top of a stone wall to form this extension to a municipal facility near Montpellier, France, by local architect Chrystelle Sanaa (+ slideshow). More about Chrystelle Sanaa's Municipal Technical Centre is clad in thin strips of cedar
After 15 years of incremental work, architect Niall McLaughlin has restored and extended a London house with a subterranean gallery (+ slideshow). More about Niall McLaughlin extends Duncan Terrace house with translucent passageway and gallery
Tel Aviv studio AndreyAndShay has created a collection of brushes in bold primary colours by melding sections of the bristles together to form handles. More about AndreyAndShay melds colourful bristles to form Monobloc Brushes
A gridded timber frame extends around the exterior of this office for a cladding company by Austrian studio Heri & Salli, providing space to test facades, as well as to hang sun-screens or grow plants (+ slideshow). More about Timber frame surrounding Heri & Salli's Office Off transforms the building into a climbing frame
This week we published a vibrator that can be worn as a necklace, swimming pools for the River Thames and a fish-inspired skyscraper (main image). Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
Boxy steel-clad volumes cantilever in different directions to provide alternating views from inside this office building in Roeselare, Belgium, by Ghent studio CAAN Architecten. More about Three stacked volumes comprise Hectaar office building by CAAN Architecten
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a project manager at Foster + Partners, whose proposed pair of skyscrapers for San Francisco's Transbay area are pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Japanese designer Akihiro Mizuuchi has created a set of precise Lego moulds that turn melted chocolate into edible bricks (+ slideshow). More about Akihiro Mizuuchi makes Lego bricks from chocolate
Competition: we've teamed up with Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza to give away five copies of his new monograph to Dezeen readers. More about Competition: five copies of Alberto Campo Baeza's monograph to be won
Sports brand Nike has created a full-sized basketball court with motion-tracking and reactive LED visualisation technology built into the floor to help American star Kobe Bryant teach his moves to young players in Shanghai (+ slideshow). More about Nike creates first full-size LED basketball court in Shanghai for training with Kobe Bryant
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pieteke Korte has made a collection of leather samples that use iridescent colours and geometric patterns to create distorted visual effects (+ slideshow). More about Pieteke Korte creates optical illusions with leather for Visual Interferences collection
News: architecture firm RMJM has won a competition to design a landmark tower for Doumen, China, with plans for a 93-metre-high structure covered in scales (+ slideshow). More about Fish-inspired skyscraper by RMJM wins Chinese tower contest
Holes in a wrought iron platform are filled with planted rockeries at this Kobe showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates for Japanese fashion brand Sisii (+ slideshow). More about Sisii showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates is interspersed with rockeries
Dutch studio i29 has designed a minimal stainless-steel kitchen island for a classical Paris apartment (+ slideshow). More about Slim kitchen island installed at Home 10 by i29
UK architecture firm 5th Studio has added a shingle-clad extension to a house in a listed former inn that is raised above the flood level of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire (+ slideshow). More about Wildfowl Cottage extension by 5th Studio is clad with shingles and raised over a flood plain
Belgian studio Fou de Feu has created a collection of tableware shaped like teardrops from a range of materials (+ slideshow). More about Fou de Feu designs droplet-shaped tableware for Rhythm collection
Budapest studio Gereben Marián mixed cement with local earth and rock to create the rugged walls of this series of buildings, which accommodate visitors to a vineyard in the Eger wine region of Hungary (+ slideshow). More about Earthy cabins hide amongst the vineyards at the Almagyar Wine Terrace in Hungary
Israeli designers Idan Noyberg and Gal Bulka have replaced sewing-machine needles with stamps that print lines of patterns onto fabric. More about Noyberg & Bulka uses sewing machines to stamp ink patterns onto clothes
A vibrator that can be worn as a necklace, Lego's new building blocks aimed at the architecture community and Rebecca Litchfield's photographic project chronicling the decay of abandoned Soviet architecture (pictured), feature in Dezeen Mail issue 215. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Opinion: when the creative industries across Europe go offline for the holiday season, the archetypal English country cottage becomes an incubator for problem-solving design brilliance says Kieran Long. More about "Holidays bring out the best in designers"