Pale bricks are arranged in a herringbone pattern on the outer walls of this compact house in north-east London that architect Zoe Chan designed and built for herself (+ slideshow). More about Patterned brickwork surrounds Atelier ChanChan's Herringbone House
Brightly coloured pods resembling submarines contain meeting rooms at the new Moscow office for internet company Yandex by Russian studio Za Bor Architects (+ slideshow). More about Za Bor Architects adds submarine-like meeting rooms to Yandex's Moscow office
Laboratory for Architecture in Barcelona uncovered barrel-vaulted brick ceilings during the renovation of this apartment in the architects' home city (+ slideshow). More about Vaulted brick ceilings revealed inside renovated Barcelona apartment
Light projected through a soap bubble throws patterns generated by the tiny vibrations of a speaker onto the ceiling in this installation by Royal College of Art graduate Dagny Rewera (+ movie). More about Soap and light visualise sound vibrations in Dagny Rewera's installation
Opinion: in response to Joseph Rykwert's Royal Gold Medal lecture this week, where the critic stressed that all design has political implications, Kieran Long rejects Zaha Hadid's assertion that architects have "nothing to do with the workers" who die on construction sites. More about "We cannot absolve ourselves of responsibility for the implications of a project"
Dezeen Guide: design events taking place in March include festivals in Iceland (pictured), Mexico and Costa Rica, plus thirteen more in our update this month. More about Dezeen Guide update: March 2014
This week Zaha Hadid denied responsibility for migrants working on her stadium in Qatar, while her aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympics (pictured) is set to open to the public. More architecture and design from the past seven days follows, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
Giant sheepskins, crumpled metallic leather and plastic sheets adorned models at fashion designer Gareth Pugh's Autumn Winter 2014 show during Paris Fashion Week. More about Gareth Pugh dresses models like abominable snowmen and wind-up toys
French firm Dominique Perrault Architecture has completed a 220-metre skyscraper with a folded glass facade in Vienna, which has now become Austria's tallest building. More about Dominique Perrault's DC Tower 1 now Austria's tallest building
News: the Oscars has been given a new logo and visual identity ahead of this Sunday's awards ceremony in Los Angeles. More about The Oscars gets a new visual identity
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an assistant furniture designer at Paul Smith, whose furnishings for Maggie's Centre in Nottingham are pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Artist Tobias Rehberger has taken over a gallery in his home city of Frankfurt with black and white graphics that play tricks on the eye (+ slideshow). More about Monochrome graphics create optical illusions at Tobias Rehberger's solo exhibition
Berlin studio J Mayer H has designed a temporary pavilion comprising a wonky grid of criss-crossing timber beams to celebrate the 300th year of German city Karlsruhe (+ slideshow). More about J Mayer H designs gridded pavilion for Karlsruhe's 300-year anniversary
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to attend panel discussions, organised by London's Sir John Soane's Museum in conjunction with an exhibition of 3D-printed versions of prints by Italian artist Piranesi. More about Competition: tickets for Sir John Soane's Museum talks programme to be won
A portable router designed to bring constant internet connectivity to tough locations in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond was presented at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town this week. More about BRCK portable internet router by Ushahidi "designed to work anywhere"
Japanese studio Nendo has dressed up these wooden tables for Walt Disney Japan to look like characters from children's story books Winnie-the-Pooh. More about Nendo bases furniture for Walt Disney Japan on Winnie-the-Pooh characters
Concrete block walls with window-like apertures surround a courtyard at the front of this Melbourne house by local practice MRTN Architects, which also features an angular wooden roof (+slideshow). More about Family courtyard fronts Fairfield Hacienda house by MRTN Architects
Milan 2014: British designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a range of lightweight aluminium furniture (+ slideshow). More about Samuel Wilkinson designs Grace collection of aluminium furniture
Thom Mayne's Los Angeles firm Morphosis has completed a new Hollywood campus for arts school Emerson College where a rectangular frame surrounds a curvaceous cluster of classrooms (+ slideshow). More about Emerson College campus by Morphosis places curvy classrooms within a hollow frame
News: NASA is developing robots made from a tensile system of interlocking rods and cables that can transform from flat components into a ball shape then tense and flex to roll around the surface of planets. More about NASA's latest robot is designed to bounce and roll across rough terrain