Movie: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at today's preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London, Thomas Heatherwick demonstrates the machine that dispenses guides to the exhibition from huge rolls of paper, inspired by newspaper printing presses. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick at the V&A museum
Designed in Hackney: these side tables by Haggerston designer Corinna Warm feature deep round trays supported on tubular steel legs that make them resemble snare drums. More about Designed in Hackney: Drum tables by Corinna Warm
This red concrete house outside Stuttgart by German firm Finckh Architekten has an oversized middle floor that cantilevers across the driveway (photos by Zooey Braun). More about Haus Ostfildern by Finckh Architekten
Japanese designers Nendo wanted their bathroom collection for Italian brand Bisazza Bagno to look as though the whole room has just been unpacked from the crate-like bath. More about Nendo collection by Nendo for Bisazza Bagno
Spanish architects Estudio Hago have completed a dental surgery with walls of rounded wooden panels and white-tinted glass. More about Dental Office by Estudio Hago
If the year 2012 does bring the world to an end, Mexican branding company Menosunocerouno plan to face the apocalypse in style with a survival kit that includes chocolate and hard liqueur. More about Just in Case by Menosunocerouno
Slideshow: German architects modulorbeat and students from the Münster School of Architecture constructed a glittering golden pavilion to exhibit the techniques of medieval goldsmiths in Münster's central market square. More about Golden Workshop by modulorbeat and Münster School of Architecture students
Cologne artist Simon Schubert creates intricate images of stately homes and palaces simply by folding plain white sheets of paper. More about Paper works by Simon Schubert
David Chipperfield Architects have won a competition to design a museum of fine arts in the city of Reims, France with proposals for a building clad in translucent white marble and glass. More about Musée des Beaux-arts in Reims by David Chipperfield Architects
Designed in Hackney: Hackney designer Gitta Gschwendtner is best known for her anthropomorphic furniture and lamps, and this movie by Justin Anderson brings them to life in a surreal living room setting. More about Designed in Hackney: Living Room by Gitta Gschwendtner
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of design from Britain curated by London collective Bricolage Project (above) opens at the Centre Commercial in Paris on Friday. More about Bricolage and Friends
Construction has begun on the new OMA-designed headquarters for fashion brand G-Star RAW in Amsterdam, which will feature a facade that slides open. More about G-Star RAW Headquarters by OMA
Dezeen Wire: Dutch architecture and design publishers NAi Publishers and 010 are to merge and will be known as nai010 publishers from 1 July . More details on the NAi website.
Related: last month venerable Swiss architectural publisher Birkhäuser went into administration.
More about Dutch publishers NAi and 010 to merge
These carafes by Zurich designer Anna Blattert of Swiss collective Postfossil incorporate little baskets to hold fresh ingredients like lemon or mint for making flavoured tap water. More about Stir It by Anna Blattert for Postfossil
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: last week the Dezeen team were at Clerkenwell Design Week in London, where highlights included an archway clad in wooden hexagons, a tiny mobile theatre and a basket-making machine that stops working when nobody’s looking, as well as our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up. Here's a slideshow capturing these projects and a few more of the best bits. More about Slideshow feature: Clerkenwell Design Week 2012
Slideshow: Huge glowing baskets surround the staircases of this former slaughterhouse in Madrid that Spanish architects Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo have converted into a cinema. More about Cineteca Matadero by Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo
Following the popularity of the bookcase without shelves that we published earlier this week (above, top right) here's a roundup of the ten most-clicked stories from Dezeen featuring more clever ways to display your reading material. More about Dezeen's top ten: bookcases
Five years ago this week Dezeen was in Dubai, reporting on the jaw-dropping architectural projects being proposed for the Gulf states including a raised city in the shape of a cloud, an inhabited mountain-top dam and a convention centre that resembles the Death Star. More about Five years ago...
This time last year Dezeen focussed on car design, filming a movie about the Jaguar C-X75 electric concept car, boosted by jet engines, and rounding up our top ten cars of all time from the pages of Dezeen. More about One year ago...
Atelier Van Lieshout arranged its new furniture pieces for Dutch company Lensvelt around an enormous blue cannon at Ventura Lambrate last month. More about WWIII by Atelier Van Lieshout for Lensvelt