The age-defining rings of a tree stump provided the starting point for this small round house planned by design collective Penda for a wood-carving artist in Beijing (+ slideshow). More about Penda's doughnut-shaped House O is based on the form of a tree stump
Central Saint Martins graduate Robert Cooper has created chocolate and wafer snacks that can be built into Airfix-style models, which are on display at the New Designers Part 2 exhibition that opened yesterday (+ slideshow). More about Airfix-style model kits by Robert Cooper are made from chocolate and wafer
The second project on Dezeen today from Swedish architecture office Wingårdhs is an eight-storey residential building constructed entirely from wood in the Stockholm suburb of Sundbyberg. More about Wingårdhs completes prefabricated apartment block built entirely from wood
Huge wooden barrels traditionally used in the making of soy sauce are suspended over the heads of customers at this shop designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates for a sauce manufacturer in Nihonbashi, Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma suspends wooden barrels over Japanese soy-sauce shop
An immersive exhibition demonstrating creative uses of computer coding – from vintage video games to animated robots – opens today at the Barbican Centre in London (+ slideshow). More about Barbican's Digital Revolution exhibition celebrates creative computer coding
Competition: we've teamed up with publisher Verso to give away five copies of Radical Cities, the new book by curator, critic and Dezeen columnist Justin McGuirk. More about Competition: win a copy of Radical Cities by Justin McGuirk
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox explains why he is making a stained-glass driverless car for our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition in September. More about Dominic Wilcox to build driverless car made out of stained glass
Musician Pharrell Williams has worked with Dutch fashion brand G-Star Raw to create a denim collection made from waste plastic scooped up from the ocean. More about Pharrell Williams and G-Star RAW transform ocean plastic into denim collection
Dezeen Mail issue 209 includes a vaginal activity tracker designed to help strengthen pelvic floor muscles, reactions to Zaha Hadid winning the Design of the Year prize, and Lego Minifigures hacked to create holders for iPhone cables. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Children attending this nursery in Spain by Pamplona studio Taller Básico de Arquitectura enter through an angular concrete corridor carved out of the building's faceted shell (+ slideshow). More about Faceted concrete corridor welcomes children to Taller Básico de Arquitectura's nursery
Activity trackers are becoming more personal – instead of fitting around the wrist, this grenade-shaped product inserts into the vagina to help strengthen pelvic floor muscles and vibrates to give workout feedback. More about Vibrating kGoal activity tracker monitors vaginal exercises
News: Frank Gehry has unveiled yet another reworked design for the proposed skyscraper complex in his home city of Toronto, reducing the number of towers from three to two. More about Gehry scales back Canadian skyscraper scheme to be "more Toronto"
Swedish architecture firm Wingårdhs has completed a university auditorium in a Stockholm suburb with a patterned glass facade that twists and leans over the adjacent street (+ slideshow). More about Glass triangles animate facade of Wingårdh's auditorium for Karolinska Institutet
Fernando Amat, the designer of the first-ever Camper store, has designed a new boutique for the footwear brand in Palma de Mallorca, featuring boxy display units with mirrored edges (+ slideshow). More about Fernando Amat designs Camper store in Palma de Mallorca
This pale brick building for Dutch financial services company Rabobank has been purposefully designed by architecture studio Mecanoo to "not look like a bank" (+ slideshow). More about Mecanoo integrates public workspaces within banking centre for Rabobank
Movie: a host of international designers including Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, Barber & Osgerby and the Campana Brothers discuss their involvement in Clerkenwell Design Week 2014 in this movie we made for the festival. More about Clerkenwell Design Week is helping London "live up to its design reputation"
Melbourne architect Clare Cousins and her team have created themselves a shared office space, where interior fittings are picked out in black or white to distinguish between the different areas of its two occupants (+ slideshow). More about Clare Cousins' Melbourne office is divided up with colour-coordinated details
Drinks brand Coca-Cola and musician Will.i.am have developed a 3D printer that produces objects using filament made from recycled plastic bottles. More about Coca-Cola and Will.i.am's 3D printer uses recycled bottles as filament
Dezeen Watch Store: designer Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility has spoken to the Dezeen Watch Store blog about Bottle, a new watch based on the "graphic folly" of a beer bottle base. More about Bottle watch is based on "graphic folly that intrigued me" says Sam Hecht
This conceptual project by Royal College of Art graduate Johanna Schmeer builds on developments in nanotechnology to create synthetic foods for feeding the world's burgeoning population (+ movie). More about Johanna Schmeer imagines the future of food with Bioplastic Fantastic