Bright lights, prime numbers and a map of the universe are installed amongst the abandoned oil tanks of a former shipbuilding workshop in what's now the Chinese Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. More about Chinese Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
This combined house and gallery in Singapore by architecture studio Lekker Design comprises a single rectilinear building with another twisted inside it. More about Gallery House by Lekker Design
Japanese studio Nendo has created a Bluetooth headset that looks like a pen. More about Stylo Bluetooth headset by Nendo for Logitech
Architect Jean Nouvel has completed a design showroom in Montpellier where furniture and homewares are caged behind chain link fencing. More about RBC Design Centre Montpellier by Jean Nouvel
Designer Sunghoon Jung of South Korea has devised a combined tape measure and pair of compasses. More about Any Kinda Tape measure by Sunghoon Jung
American architects Richard Meier & Partners have completed a Corian-clad club for private members in one of the largest development zones in China. More about OCT Shenzhen Clubhouse by Richard Meier & Partners
Steel trees with sprawling branches support the glass roof of this greenhouse in Switzerland by Buehrer Wuest Architekten (+ slideshow). More about Greenhouse at Grüningen Botanical Garden by Buehrer Wuest Architekten
Athletes without the use of their lower body use cycles propelled by hand pedals in the road cycling events at the London 2012 Paralympics. More about Paralympic design: competitive handcycles
London Design Festival: Shoe designer Tracey Neuls and product designer Tord Boontje have teamed up to design a range of shoes featuring autumn leaves. More about Shoes by Tracey Neuls and Tord Boontje for Selfridges
In this next movie in our series filmed with Marc Newson in his London studio he tells us about the watches he's designed, including the first ones that he built himself in the late 1980s. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade" - Marc Newson
Jerusalem designer Avichai Tadmor created this scaled-up pencil sharpener for shaving curls of carrot onto salads. More about Karoto by Avichai Tadmor for Monkey Business
Real and animated figures are reflected by a trembling mirror inside the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Austrian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Dezeen Wire: technology companies are moving from suburban office parks into cities, writes urban studies theorist Richard Florida in an article for the The Wall Street Journal.
Among the reasons he gives, Florida says that design is now central to the success of both software and hardware, and "design talent is overwhelmingly concentrated in big cities, with their leading design schools and multiple industries that draw upon such skills." More about "Tech firms are opting for cities" - Richard Florida, The Wall Street Journal
Russian studio Za Bor Architects have furnished the new St. Petersburg offices of internet company Yandex like the desktop of a computer, with pixellated backgrounds and huge icons (+ slideshow). More about Yandex Saint Petersburg Office II by Za Bor Architects
Vietnamese architects Vo Trong Nghia have constructed a thatched bamboo dome at the centre of a lake in Binh Duong Province (+ slideshow). More about Wind and Water Bar by Vo Trong Nghia
London-based designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed a series of low tables for Danish design brand Versus with depressions in the top to stop small items rolling around. More about Scallop table by Samuel Wilkinson for Versus
This wooden chamber by Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey stretches up like a funnel towards the roof of the Arsenale Corderie at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Vessel by O’Donnell + Tuomey at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
FAT director Sam Jacob explains why he believes that "copying is both fundamental to how architecture develops and something that threatens its foundational belief in originality," in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the firm has created an installation called The Museum of Copying. More about "Copying is both fundamental and dangerous to architecture" - Sam Jacob of FAT
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Milan-based designer James Irvine has designed an I-beam shaped stool for Italian design brand Discipline to be exhibited during Helsinki Design Week this month. More about Centanni Stool by James Irvine for Discipline