Renaissance artist El Greco lived and worked in the Spanish city of Toledo and Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos has refurbished and added a glazed entrance pavilion to the small museum that houses some of his most important paintings (+ slideshow). More about El Greco Museum restoration and extension by Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos
As a needle passes over this vinyl globe by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, it plays folk music and national anthems from around the world (+ movie). More about The Sound of the Earth by Yuri Suzuki
News: architect Renzo Piano has unveiled designs for a museum of movie history for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. More about Academy Museum of Motion Pictures by Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali
The stone mullions surrounding this visitor centre by Irish firm Heneghan Peng Architects imitate the towering basalt columns of the volcanically formed Giant's Causeway (+ slideshow). More about Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre by Heneghan Peng Architects
World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed, architect Josefin Larsson of Wingårdhs tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how the residents of Stockholm want it to be a "low city", but that her studio's controversial high-rise hotel there is a "real midget" compared to the skyscrapers of Singapore, where the World Architecture Festival took place. More about "People want Stockholm to be a low city" - Josefin Larsson on Victoria Tower
News: Dutch architect Wiel Arets (above), the new dean of the architecture college at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has set out his vision for the school, rejecting fashionable form-making in favour of greater concern for the public realm. More about Signature architecture "worries me" - new IIT architecture dean Wiel Arets
Istanbul Design Biennial: Turkey's frenetic, unplanned growth means it needs good design more than most other countries, according to the organiser of the inaugural Istanbul Design Biennial, which opened this week. More about Turkey "needs design more than other countries" - Istanbul Design Biennial organiser
This week's issue of Dezeen Mail features our coverage of the Istanbul Design Biennial including a plotter that repeatedly writes text from the Open Source Architecture Manifesto onto a wall (above), plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Istanbul Design Biennial: Rotterdam design studio Minale-Maeda has devised a set of 3D printed plastic connectors that combine with standard wooden parts so that anyone can make these four items of furniture. More about Keystones by Minale-Maeda
Bright shades of yellow and green help elderly people find their way around in this 17-storey housing block in Barcelona by Spanish architects Pau Vidal, Sergi Pons and Ricard Galiana (+ slideshow). More about Torre Júlia by Pau Vidal, Sergi Pons and Ricard Galiana
Vienna Design Week: Eindhoven design duo Daphna Laurens collaborated with Austrian furniture company Wittmann to make this duck-like stool and a chair with a bulging backrest. More about Chair 01 and Stool 01 by Daphna Laurens with Wittmann
Dutch team Organisation in Design will showcase the work of young designers and design schools at Ventura Interieur as part of Biennale Interieur, taking place from 20 to 28 October 2012 in Kortrijk, Belgium. More about Ventura Interieur 2012
News: Google has shared these previously unseen images of its data centres around the world, which feature primary-coloured pipework, cooling rooms that glow green and bicycles for staff to get around (+ slideshow). More about Google offers a glimpse inside its data centres
Competition: Dezeen readers can win one of ten copies of (un)Made in China, a book that features projects by western architects that ran into trouble for various reasons in China, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name. More about Competition: ten copies of (un)Made in China to be won
Hong Kong-based designer Michael Young has brought the Moke beach buggy back to life more than 60 years after it first appeared as a sister vehicle to the classic Mini. More about Moke by Michael Young
A line of clerestory windows in the middle of the roof brings mid-morning sunshine into the north-west facing rooms of this wooden house in Slovenia by architects Kombinat (+ slideshow). More about House MJ, Novo Mesto, by Kombinat
News: the architecture of OMA's Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam has been criticised following the theft of seven major paintings by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet. More about OMA's gallery design blamed for Rotterdam art heist
World Architecture Festival 2012: Australian architect John Wardle tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how small projects can be "a good grounding for research and testing of ideas" in this movie we filmed about his award-winning Shearer's Quarters at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month. More about "Small projects are good grounding for research" - John Wardle on Shearer's Quarters
Istanbul Design Biennial: this project by Antwerp design studio Unfold explores how 3D-printed objects created from identical digital files can be as varied and unique as hand-made objects (+ movie + slideshow). More about Stratigraphic Manufactury by Unfold
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can get a 35% discount on a new book of speculative architectural drawings and designs, curated by artists Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb and published by Laurence King. More about 35% off Architectural Inventions by Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb