Dezeen promotion: designer Raffaello Galiotto has created patterned marble disks that blur into new shapes when spun fast enough for Italian brand Lithos Design (+ slideshow). More about Optical illusions created by spinning marble disks
This London building appears to have been turned on its head, but it's actually an installation created by Hackney artist Alex Chinneck. More about London building turned upside down by Alex Chinneck
A collection of vintage Aston Martins can be glimpsed through the fritted glass facade of this house in Maastricht, the Netherlands, by Dutch studio Wiel Arets Architects. More about Wiel Arets completes a glazed house for a vintage car collector
Behind our sixth A-Zdvent calendar window is British architect Norman Foster. One of his most famous buildings is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters completed in 1986 (pictured) and his firm Foster + Partners this week revealed its collaboration with designer Thomas Heatherwick on a finance centre that is currently under construction in Shanghai.
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The translucent polycarbonate walls of this house in Hiroshima by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office allow natural light to flood the interior from all sides (+ slideshow). More about Suppose Design Office's House of Tousuienn has translucent plastic walls
Design Miami 2013: a previously unrealised beach house designed by modernist architect Charlotte Perriand in 1934 has been constructed and furnished by French fashion house Louis Vuitton to coincide with this year's Design Miami fair (+ slideshow). More about Louis Vuitton realises unbuilt Charlotte Perriand beach house in Miami
Design Miami 2013: London architect Daniel Widrig is presenting a collection of 3D-printed wearable sculptures during Design Miami this week, including one that looks like an exoskeleton. More about Daniel Widrig creates wearable sculptures based on a 3D scan of the body
Japanese designers Nendo have adapted a traditional Japanese paper-making technique to create a series of lamps that are smooth at one end and gently wrinkled at the other. More about Nendo adapts traditional Japanese paper-making to design crumpled lamps
Herzog & de Meuron's nearly completed Pérez Art Museum Miami leads this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, which also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Opinion: Kieran Long argues that while it's fun to be cynical about pop cultural artefacts like Katy Perry Lashes, a recent expose on the conditions in which they're made proves that it's vital for design criticism to move beyond semiotics. More about "We must examine the human cost of objects, not just their semiotic resonances"
News: in this movie interview filmed for a documentary about Rem Koolhaas, rapper Kanye West talks about working with the architect's firm OMA on a seven-screen cinema to show his first film and reveals that he's working on a second movie. More about Kanye West announces second film in interview about working with Rem Koolhaas
Dezeen promotion: the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam is accepting applications to study on its Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design (MIARD) course. More about Apply now to study at the Piet Zwart Institute
Design Miami 2013: architect Norman Foster plans to add a row of stone pavilions to the Norton Museum of Art in Florida as part of a major overhaul that will double the building's gallery space, and he unveiled the designs yesterday during the opening of the Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami fairs. More about Foster unveils extension plans for Florida's Norton Museum of Art
A bridge over a stream connects the two sides of this concrete house in India by Mumbai firm Architecture Brio (+ slideshow). More about Concrete house by Architecture Brio that straddles a stream in India
Eindhoven designer Erez Nevi Pana has developed a dough made from soil and fungus that can be baked in an oven to create stools and chairs strong enough to sit on. More about Furniture made from soil then baked like bread by Erez Nevi Pana
Behind our fifth advent calendar window is Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who was awarded the 2011 Pritzker Prize and designed the red concrete museum dedicated to artist Paula Rego (pictured) in his home country.
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News: students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have cleaned up at the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards this evening, with winning projects including a floating community centre for the Helsinki archipelago and a proposal to rebuild 250 Russian churches. More about RIBA President's Medals Student Awards 2013 all go to one London school
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Matthias Borowski has created a range of furniture that resembles oversized confectionary (+ slideshow). More about Furniture that looks like giant sweets by Matthias Borowski
Design Miami 2013: giant mound of sand appears to support an aluminium roof at New York studio Formlessfinder's Tent Pile installation outside this year's Design Miami fair, which opens to the public today (+ slideshow). More about A pile of sand marks the entrance to Design Miami
News: Dubai has won the bid to host the World Expo 2020 with a masterplan by architects HOK, beating Zaha Hadid's rival proposal for a lagoon-side park in the Turkish city of Izmir (+ slideshow). More about HOK masterplan leads Dubai to Expo 2020 victory