Dezeen Wire: a documentary about controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filmed by American journalist Alison Klayman is now screening at the Berlin International Film Festival. The movie follows the artist from 2009, when he was preparing for the Sunflower Seeds installation at Tate Modern, up until his release from 81 days of detention. More about Ai Weiwei documentary screening in Berlin
Slideshow: this cluster of asymmetric wooden huts houses a museum dedicated to the craft of paper-making in a mountainside village in rural China. More about Museum of Handcraft Paper by TAO
Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman and San Francisco architect Jenny Chapman have installed a wooden hut in an unusual city location – suspended on the side of a San Francisco hotel like a bird box. More about Manifest Destiny! by Mark Reigelman and Jenny Chapman
Competition: Dezeen and publishers Laurence King are offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of DIY Furniture: a step by step guide. More about Competition: five DIY Furniture books to be won
Stockholm 2012: the prongs of this whisk by Hanover studio Ding3000 for Danish brand Normann Copenhagen fold away for neat storage. More about Beater by Ding3000 for Normann Copenhagen
Dezeen Platform: in this movie we filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform last autumn, young Croatian designer Mirna Kerr presents her jewellery made of bulldog clips, cable ties and plumbing components. See photos and read more about her work in our story on Dezeen. More about Dezeen Platform: Mirna Kerr
Stockholm 2012: Londoner Benjamin Hubert has designed a fruit bowl for Swedish brand David Design with concentric circles milled out of a slice of oak, cut deeper as they approach the centre to form a stepped dish. More about Halo by Benjamin Hubert for David Design
This scaly apartment block in alpine Slovenia appears to have had its corners sliced away to create triangular balconies. More about Alpine Ski Apartments by OFIS Arhitekti
London designers JamesPlumb present a solo show of their work in Geneva this month, including a three-piece suite made by inserting cast concrete seats between the carved frames of a reclaimed sofa and armchairs. More about Goodnight Day by JamesPlumb
Slideshow: the stripped concrete skeletons of three former factories in A Coruña await conversion into public buildings by Spanish architects Díaz&Díaz. More about La Cros Factories by Díaz&Díaz Arquitectos
Slideshow: French studio Bang Architectes has converted a former peanut factory in Calais into a skateboarding park with a bright orange mesh facade (photos by Julien Lanoo). More about Zap' Ados by Bang Architectes
More Valentine's design: Claesson Koivisto Rune presented this chair with a heart-shaped back at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Heart Chair by Claesson Koivisto Rune for David Design
Slideshow: architects BIG have won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake. More about The Kimball Art Centre by BIG
Stockholm 2012: Swedish designers Form Us With Love presented vases comprising slabs of quartz compound slotted onto a metal frame in Stockholm last week.
More about Silestone Slab Vases by Form Us With Love for Cosentino
Since it's Valentine's day, London designer Lee Washington has created a set of bookmarks shaped like little men with cut-out hearts. More about Little Romance by Lee Washington
Japanese architect Masayoshi Takahashi of High Land Design has completed a house in Tokyo with a squared spiral staircase at its centre. More about House in Aoto by High Land Design
Kitchen cabinets made from concrete blocks and removable patches of carpet that function as flip-flops can be found inside this Tokyo apartment by architects TANK. More about House K by TANK
A single-storey studio at the bottom of the garden of a semi-detached house in London creates a separation between work and domestic life for its residents. More about Suburban Studio by Ashton Porter Architects
French architects Agence Search have won a competition to design a Paris shopping mall with proposals involving giant elliptical lattices. More about Beaugrenelle Shopping Mall by Agence Search
Dezeen Platform: in this movie Royal College of Art graduate Sarah Colson presents her Portrait Machine, an interactive tool which allows her to create layered portraits using a sheet of glass, acetate and a distortion lens, which we filmed during our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space. Read the full story here. More about Dezeen Platform: Sarah Colson