News: a Dutch firm specialising in floating structures has unveiled plans for a hotel shaped like a snowflake with a glass roof so that guests can watch the Northern Lights while bobbing off the coast of Tromso in Norway. More about Snowflake-shaped hotel to float off the coast of Norway
Briefed to design a holiday home that feels like a campsite, Australian studio Dunn & Hillam Architects has completed a residence in New South Wales based on the old "dogtrot houses" of the American deep south (+ slideshow). More about Dunn & Hillam's Dogtrot House centres around an open-air corridor
Los Angeles studio Clive Wilkinson Architects has designed the West Hollywood offices for comedy video production company Funny or Die, which double as a film studio (+ slideshow). More about Clive Wilkinson Architects brings "quirky rawness" to Funny or Die offices
Japanese studio MAMM Design has lowered the kitchen of this apartment in Amsterdam to fit a mezzanine under the steep roof of an 85-year-old housing block (+ slideshow). More about Apartment in Amsterdam by MAMM Design features a sunken kitchen
News: construction is now underway on a building designed by Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects for a technical university near Hanoi, featuring a chequerboard facade of concrete slabs and tree-filled balconies (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia's chequerboard university building gets going in Vietnam
International agency Technicon Design has created a concept for a private jet that replaces windows with screens that can display the external environment inside the cabin (+ slideshow). More about Ixion windowless private jet by Technicon Design offers immersive panoramic views
This Montreal student housing block by Kanva is clad with concrete panels that are engraved with historic pictures of the site (+ slideshow). More about Edison Residence student housing by Kanva is clad with engraved concrete panels
Taiwan design studio Drilling Lab has created a selection of aluminium vessels that look like they're made from sections of industrial water pipes (+ slideshow). More about Drilling Lab stacks aluminium tubes to form vessels in Water Pipe Series
The extension to this refurbished house in Australia includes a covered outdoor space built around the trunk of a large lemon-scented tree (+ slideshow). More about B.E. Architecture designs Sydney house extension around mature gum tree
San Francisco start-up Crave has launched a stainless-steel vibrator that can be worn as a necklace and charged via a USB port on a computer (+ slideshow). More about Crave's USB-chargeable vibrator doubles as a pendant necklace
French studio CUT Architectures have used a steel grid structure to create shelving, seating areas, a kitchen and a climbing frame for this apartment renovation in Paris' 6th arrondissement (+ slideshow). More about Steel structure provides storage and seating at Apartment in the 6th by CUT Architectures
Two clients joined forces to commission one building with two separate homes by Buenos Aires studio Hitzig Militello Arquitectos, which has been coloured grey to contrast with its neighbours (+ slideshow). More about Hitzig Militello Arquitectos combines two homes in one building in Buenos Aires
Graphic design studio GrandArmy has overhauled the signage and packaging for the United States Postal Service in the "largest retail rebrand project in American history" (+ slideshow). More about GrandArmy rebrands United States Postal Service with "Americana" graphics
Four design installations have been published on Dezeen in the last week, so we've gathered together all the temporary artworks and structures from the Dezeen archive and added them to a new Pinterest board.
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Fibre-cement tiles have been used to create a latticed surface on the facade and roof of this house by Belgian studio NU Architectuuratelier (+ slideshow). More about Fibre-cement tiles create a latticed facade for Leeuw House by NU Architectuuratelier
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Niels Datema has designed a lamp made entirely of graphite, which illuminates when its two parts connect (+ slideshow). More about Niels Datema exploits graphite's conductive properties to illuminate Graphlights
Dezeen Music Project: Israeli director Gal Muggia aimed to create a "fractured reality" with stretched landscapes, digital boxes and pixellated heads in this music video for artist Adi Ulmansky. More about Heads explode into pixels in Gal Muggia's music video for Adi Ulmansky
Photo essay: photographer Rebecca Litchfield has toured former Soviet countries to document the once-monumental structures around the Eastern Bloc that have fallen into decay. More about Abandoned Soviet architecture photographed by Rebecca Litchfield
Five cliff-top buildings feature walls that fold in on themselves to frame views and offer privacy in this South Korean holiday resort by Atelier Chang (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Chang designs angular cliff-top buildings for Knot House resort
This ceramic lamp by Italian designer Federica Bubani comprises a cone-shaped shade that fits inside a larger base in a variety of positions. More about Two ceramic cones form Mia table lamp by Federica Bubani