Architecture studio Snøhetta of Oslo and New York has revealed designs for a community library in Queens, New York, with a shimmering golden exterior and a triangular entrance at one corner. More about Far Rockaway Branch Library by Snøhetta
London Design Festival 2013: designers Scholten & Baijings set up a still life depicting a dinner party in progress at the V&A museum for the London Design Festival (+ slideshow). More about The Dinner Party/True-to-life Design by Scholten & Baijings
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with creative website It's Nice That to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of its Printed Pages magazine. More about Competition: five copies of Printed Pages by It's Nice That to be won
This small house in rural Japan by Tokyo firm Case Design Studio is lifted off the ground on a single central pillar (+ slideshow). More about House in Fujizakura by Case Design Studio
London Design Festival 2013: this year's London Design Festival is upon us and we've compiled a special issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter as a guide to the coverage we'll be bringing you over the coming days.
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London Design Festival 2013: London studio Industrial Facility has created a range of stacking containers to store desktop items for American office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller. More about Formwork by Industrial Facility for Herman Miller
Local basalt stone mixed into the concrete used to construct this holiday home in India helps to connect it with its mountainous site (+ slideshow). More about Khopoli House by SPASM Design Architects
Five little robots travel along lines drawn in felt-tip-pen and turn coloured scribbles into music in this installation by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki (+ movie). More about Looks Like Music by Yuri Suzuki
London Design Festival 2013: Dezeen's World Design Guide has created a digital map of West End Design District - one of the key districts during this year's London Design Festival, which started yesterday and runs until 22 September. More about World Design Guide map of West End Design District
A car service pavilion with a canopy shaped like a giant Pringle potato crisp has been completed in northern Germany by GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architeken (+ slideshow). More about Autostadt Roof and Service Pavilion by GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architekten
This tiny wooden cabin in Sweden contains a sauna and a bedroom with large picture windows that frame views of the surrounding forest (+ slideshow). More about Ermitage Cabin by Septembre
London Design Festival 2013: London's V&A Museum has added the world's first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection and will exhibit it along with four other newly acquired design objects during the London Design Festival. More about V&A museum acquires first 3D-printed gun
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Tokyo firm Schemata Architects has created an expandable changing room inside furniture made from shipping crates in this Paris boutique (+ slideshow). More about World Basics pop-up store by Schemata Architects
Swiss architecture studio Bureau A has built a pavilion out of recycled windows on the outskirts of Geneva. More about La Fabrique by Bureau A
This former butchers shop in Barcelona has been converted into a shoe shop furnished with wooden pallets, ropes and tyres (+ slideshow). More about SoleRebels by Dom Arquitectura and Asa Studio
London Design Festival 2013: Czech designer Maxim Velčovský presents a series of porcelain vases cast from snow at the London Design Festival, which starts today. More about Snow Vases by Maxim Velčovský
The first batch of designer Michael Young's updated Moke beach buggy has been produced, ahead of the car's launch later this year (+ slideshow). More about Moke by Michael Young
We published a series of plant-covered buildings this week, including a living facade on a five-storey Parisian block. Keep reading for more highlights and this week's Dezeen Music Project featured track. More about This week on Dezeen
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a flying robot that can guide people around complex urban environments or aid search-and-rescue missions, in an attempt to show that drones can perform useful tasks as well as sinister ones (+ movie). More about SkyCall quadcopter by MIT Senseable City Lab