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
News: the design firm that claimed Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron bore "a striking resemblance" to its own work and this week received a financial settlement may never have shown images of its concept to London's Olympic organisers, it has emerged. More about Atopia "not going to answer" questions over Olympic images
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for architects at London studio Grimshaw, whose ecological park in South Korea is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Littlehampton now boasts more headline-grabbing design than many cities, with projects by Thomas Heatherwick, Asif Khan and others. Dezeen tracked down the woman who spread architecture through the coastal town "like a contagious disease" (+ slideshow + interview). More about "Contagious" architecture revives sleepy Littlehampton
The second project on Dezeen this week by Japanese studio UID Architects is a small gallery in Fukuyama surrounded by timber fins (+ slideshow). More about Wooden ribs frame entrance to timber-clad gallery by UID Architects
Turkish architecture studio Autoban has designed giant wooden "cocoons" for the interior of the new international terminal at Baku airport in Azerbaijan (+ slideshow). More about Autoban designs Heydar Aliyev International Airport terminal in Baku
Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of white metal furniture with folded, bent and curved details for Italian brand Desalto (+ slideshow). More about Nendo manipulates metal to form Softer than Steel furniture collection