Photo essay: British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper toured the interior of one of the largest slaughterhouses in the world to create this series of images documenting how pigs are turned into pork, sausages and bacon (+ slideshow). More about Behind-the-scenes look inside one of the world's biggest slaughterhouses by Alastair Philip Wiper
The window of London department store Selfridges has been dressed with a selection of new inventions by British designer Dominic Wilcox, including a reverse listening device and binoculars for viewing the future (+ slideshow). More about Dominic Wilcox's absurd inventions displayed in Selfridges' window
London studio Scott Architects has added a curvy timber extension to a terraced house in Hackney, featuring a bowed wall that cuts through the centre of a green roof (+ slideshow). More about Curvy timber extension by Scott Architects features a sloping grass roof
News: advertising festival Cannes Lions has added product design to the list of creative disciplines awarded at this year's event. More about Cannes Lions festival introduces product design category
Shiny aluminium-clad walls allow this small house in Almere by Dutch studio MONO to reflect the colours of its setting (+ slideshow). More about Aluminium-clad Rebel House by MONO reflects the colours of its surroundings
Interdisciplinary art collective BeAnotherLab has developed a virtual reality headset that allows users to experience what it would be like to live in the skin of someone from the opposite sex. More about Virtual reality headset by BeAnotherLab lets users try swapping gender
British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have curated an exhibition at London's Design Museum containing a selection of objects paused part-way through the manufacturing process, which they joked reveals their obsession with aluminium. More about Barber and Osgerby's Design Museum exhibition "could almost be called the aluminium show"
An events space designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA has opened in the basement of London department store Selfridges, featuring a circular amphitheatre, vivid green columns and a stripy monochrome floor (+ slideshow). More about OMA's Imaginarium hosts lectures in Selfridges' basement
News: Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel at Ronchamp has been vandalised, prompting calls for urgent security measures to prevent further damage to one of the Modernist architect's finest works. More about "Emergency security measures" called for after vandals sack Le Corbusier's Ronchamp
News: Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have revealed designs for the first eight buildings of their 35-hectare masterplan for La Confluence, an extension of the city centre in Lyon, France (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron unveil first buildings of Lyon masterplan
Cologne 2014: German designer Christian Werner has created a sofa for French brand Ligne Roset with backrests that can be placed in any position (+ slideshow). More about Prado sofa with movable backrest cushions by Christian Werner for Ligne Roset
The two parts of this house near Oslo by Schjelderup Trondahl Architects are joined at an angle, with their gabled roofs meeting to form a distorted M-shape (+ slideshow). More about Double-gabled house overlooking a Norwegian fjord by Schjelderup Trondahl Architects
Lisbon office Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos has designed a Jewish cultural centre in the historic heart of Trancoso, Portugal, with a sharp corner that bisects two narrow cobbled streets (+ slideshow). More about Jewish cultural centre with an acutely angled corner by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos
The Ace Hotel chain has opened its newest outpost inside a 1920s tower in downtown Los Angeles, complete with a 1600-seat theatre. More about Ace Hotel opens latest branch in downtown Los Angeles
News: Russian socialite and gallerist Dasha Zukhova has sparked a racism row after a photograph of her sitting on a chair in the form of an inverted semi-naked black woman appeared alongside an interview on a Russian website. More about Russian gallerist sparks race row over "overtly degrading" chair
Architects including Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Kengo Kuma have taken over the galleries of London's Royal Academy of Arts for an architecture exhibition that features a labyrinth of sticks, an inhabitable timber monument and a web of scented bamboo (+ slideshow). More about Sensing Spaces exhibition opens at the Royal Academy
Project director Paul Baker discusses Wilkinson Eyre's award-winning cooled conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for Wilkinson Eyre. More about Wilkinson Eyre's cooled conservatories at Gardens by the Bay are "about having fun"
Cologne 2014: the colour temperature of this series of LED lamps by Rotterdam designer Arnout Meijer can be adjusted to create different moods throughout the day (+ movie). More about Thanks for the Sun colour-changing lamps by Arnout Meijer
One pivoting door sits within another to create a rusted steel entrance that can be big or small at this combined house and photography studio in Spain by American firm Olson Kundig Architects (+ slideshow). More about Pivoting steel doors lead into a house and photography studio by Olson Kundig
Japanese studio Torafu Architects has designed a collection of small and lightweight wooden furniture (+ slideshow). More about Torafu Architects unveils Cobrina wooden furniture collection