Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of architecture and design critic Will Wiles' novel about how interior design affects the way we live, called Care of Wooden Floors. More about Competition: five copies of Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles to give away
Horizontal grooves create tactile stripes across the plaster-covered walls of this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, by architects GAAGA (+ slideshow). More about Stripe House by GAAGA
A meeting table with swinging chairs (above) leads the latest issue of Dezeen Mail, which includes the best stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions, movies and more.
Read Dezeen Mail issue 118 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail
More about Dezeen Mail #118
Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus scattered 10,000 glowing books across the ground at Federation Square in Melbourne this summer for a lighting festival dedicated to reading. More about Literature Versus Traffic by Luzinterruptus
A large glass vitrine holds rooms like exhibits at the centre of this apartment in Singapore by Chinese architects Neri&Hu. More about Wu Residence by Neri&Hu
Dezeen promotion: furniture designers including Katie Walker (above), Rebecca Scott and Charlene Mullen will exhibit at Decorex International 2012, which takes place in London from 23 to 26 September 2012. More about Decorex International 2012 preview
London Design Festival: in the first of three posts about the Digital Crystal exhibition at London's Design Museum, we look at a mechanical projector built by London design studio Troika which uses Swarovski crystal lenses and LEDs to create portraits on the gallery wall (+ slideshow). More about Hardcoded Memory by Troika
London Design Festival: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman's 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). More about V&A's new furniture acquisitions to be shown at London Design Festival
The hinged boxes of this bookcase by Korean furniture designer Lee Sehoon can be spun round to create a neat grid or a scattered circle (+ movie). More about Squaring by Lee Sehoon
News: Grimshaw architects' steel and glass cocoon containing the historic Cutty Sark tea clipper has been named the ugliest new building in the UK, with a juror describing it as "the final death of High-Tech as a design language worthy of respect." More about Cutty Sark wins Carbuncle Cup 2012
East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen's Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. More about Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson for the Stepney Green Design Collection
News: French designer Philippe Starck and Slovenian engineering company Riko will complete their first sustainable prefabricated wooden house this autumn, as part of a new venture to improve housing standards. More about Philippe Starck to complete first prefab wooden eco-house
This movie by filmmakers Stretch documents the ongoing work by Cape Town studio Noero Architects to create a cultural centre within the barracks of Port Elizabeth that were once used as a concentration camp. More about Common Ground/Different Worlds by Noero Architects
Our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs has been redesigned and is now live! We've refreshed the look and feel of the site with a new colour and font, bigger headlines and text and a number of new features including a Job of the Week slot.
Otherwise the site retains the same simple, clear navigation as before and most importantly, the price of posting a job ad has not changed: it still costs just £100 to post an ad for 28 days!
As well as being posted on Dezeen Jobs, positions are promoted via Twitter, in our feeds, in our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter and our Dezeen Jobs round-up every Monday on Dezeen.
We believe www.dezeenjobs.com is the world's most effective architecture and design recruitment site - and many companies who've used it agree. Read on for citations by firms that have used Dezeen Jobs: More about Dezeen Jobs redesign
Dezeen promotion: the A' Design Award is now accepting architecture, interior and design project submissions for this year's competition. More about A' Design Award and Competition call for submissions
News: Dezeen featured in Apple's launch of the iPhone 5 today and makes an appearance in the movie demonstrating the new product. More about Dezeen features in Apple's iPhone 5 launch
News: Danish architect Henning Larsen is among the five laureates of the Praemium Imperiale arts prize, awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. More about Henning Larsen awarded Praemium Imperiale
In the final movie we filmed with Reinier de Graaf of OMA at the Venice Architecture Biennale, he discusses the firm's fascination with architecture of the late 1960s and how there is an "inherent paradox between the brutal appearance of these buildings and the social mission that they were part of." More about "An underdose of utopia can be as dangerous as an overdose" - Reinier de Graaf
Japanese designers Nendo have built an enormous woodland nesting box with 78 entrances for birds on one side and one big door for humans on the other (+ slideshow). More about Bird-apartment by Nendo
Surfaces of marble and hardwood spread through the rooms of this renovated apartment in Madrid by Spanish architects Schneider Colao (+ slideshow). More about Orfila Flat by Schneider Colao