Dezeen Wire: Dutch landscape architect Dirk Sijmons has been appointed curator of the sixth International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. More about Dirk Sijmons to curate International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
A puppet pops out from the pocket of this tote bag by Japanese designers Nendo. More about Roopuppet by Nendo
Slideshow: Spain's economy may be in tatters but that hasn't stopped it opening a raft of impressive public buildings in towns, cities and even remote villages over the past year. Amid bailouts and claims that extravagant architectural projects have helped cause the problems, here's a celebration of more modest projects from Spain such as museums, town halls, markets, auditoriums, bridges and even railway control centres featured on Dezeen recently. More about Special feature: Spanish public architecture
A glazed tower sits atop the volcanic stone facade of this performing arts centre in Belfast to create a beacon above the surrounding rooftops. More about MAC Belfast by Hackett Hall McKnight
Japanese studio mA-style architects has completed a metal-clad house with a smaller wooden house inside (+ slideshow). More about Ant House by mA-style architects
Competition: Dezeen have teamed up with Danish audio company Libratone to give away a Libratone Live special edition speaker customised by German designer Lizzy Courage (+movie). More about Competition: Libratone Live speaker to be won
Dezeen Wire: the British Council has announced the International Architecture and Design Showcase 2012, a season of exhibitions, installations, lectures and films at 50 international embassies and British cultural institutions across London to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics.
It will begin with the London Festival of Architecture on 23 June and end with the London Design Festival on 23 September.
Dezeen and writer/curator Beatrice Galilee will host Designed in Hackney Day on 1 August featuring Hackney design-themed talks, walks and workshops at Hackney House in Shoreditch. Read more about the day here and see our showcase of design and architecture from the borough here.
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Dezeen Wire: French architect Jean Nouvel is designing a new outpost of international art dealer Gagosian Gallery at Le Bourget, an industrial suburb to the north of Paris. More about Jean Nouvel to design new Gagosian Gallery in north Paris
The shooting galleries for the London 2012 Olympic games are covered in spots that look the suckers of an octopus' tentacles. More about Olympic Shooting Venue by Magma Architecture
Projects by this year's W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winners - Markus Kayser, Philippe Malouin and Tom Foulsham - have been unveiled at Design Miami/Basel. More about W Hotels Designers of the Future at Design Miami/Basel
Movie: in this montage of highlights that Dezeen made for Clerkenwell Design Week, designers including Ross Lovegrove, BarberOsgerby and the Jaguar design team introduce their projects at the event. More about Movie: Clerkenwell Design Week 2012
Competition: to coincide with the Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary exhibition at the V&A in London, we're giving readers the chance to win a year's membership to the museum plus a copy of the new monogram Thomas Heatherwick: Making. Five runners-up will also receive a pair of tickets to the exhibition. More about Competition: V&A membership, Heatherwick's new book and exhibition tickets to be won
Architects and urban designers Studio Egret West have designed a shimmering wall of titanium fish to hide an ugly east-London shopping centre from Olympic visitors. More about The Stratford Shoal by Studio Egret West
Flat panels on a multi-coloured wall slide, swing and roll out to create a secret tea shop in a São Paulo shopping centre (+ slideshow). More about The Gourmet Tea by Alan Chu
Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has designed a wooden bench with logs instead of legs and which looks a bit like the Flintstones' car. More about Holzbank by Thomas Schnur
German photographer Menno Aden has shot a series of Berlin interiors from an unconventional viewpoint: looking down from the ceiling. More about Room Portraits by Menno Aden
Architects Stickyline have created a range of paper helmets shaped like iconic buildings from the Hong Kong skyline. More about Project001 Masked Creature by Stickyline
Hexagonal tiles create honeycomb-patterned floors inside this nineteenth century Italian house refurbished by architects Grooppo. More about Casa G+S by Grooppo
Madrid studios Mi5 Arquitectos and PKMN Architectures have built a half-submerged culture and leisure centre in the middle of a public square in Teruel, Spain (+ slideshow). More about Teruel-zilla! by Mi5 Arquitectos, and PKMN Architectures
Korean architects Khan Project have designed themselves a laboratory-like studio in Seoul where staff wear doctors' gowns and walk barefoot (+ slideshow). More about Khan Project Office by Khan Project