Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna with proposals that include facade-climbing staircases and giant balloons. More about University of Applied Arts Vienna by Wolfgang Tschapeller
This month our readers' opinions were divided over the open-source WikiGlasses made of 18mm plywood (top right) so here's a roundup of our most popular stories about spectacles and shades. More about Dezeen's top ten: spectacles and shades
Dezeen Platform: this next instalment in our series of interviews with exhibitors at Dezeen Platform features London-based Canadian designer Philippe Malouin, who showed his modular bowls made of waxed concrete at Dezeen Space last autumn. More about Dezeen Platform: Philippe Malouin
Slideshow: French architects Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Belgian studio MDW Architecture have collaborated on designs for a new police headquarters on a former police cavalry site in Charleroi, Belgium, which now also accommodates a dance school. More about Hôtel de Police / Charleroi Danses by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and MDW Architecture
Stockholm studio Form Us with Love has launched a range of lighting for Swedish company Design House Stockholm featuring blown-glass pendants in circular, square and triangular shapes. More about Form Pendants by Form Us with Love for Design House Stockholm
Slideshow: Amsterdam design studio Denieuwegeneratie have buried a woodland villa beneath a mound of earth at a Dutch nature reserve. More about Dutch Mountain by Denieuwegeneratie
Slideshow: Japanese architects Future Studio conceived the rooftop terrace of this Hiroshima house as a stage, with its audience in the living room and kitchen. More about Light Stage House by Future Studio
Dezeen Platform: University of Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson created a fictional model of a home in Berlin for twentieth century writer Walter Benjamin, exhibited at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space last year. Here he explains the ideas behind his project. More about Dezeen Platform: Thomas Hudson
London designer Dominic Wilcox has expanded his series of sculptures featuring tiny characters balanced on watch hands with three new scenes tackling protest and surveillance. More about Moments in Time by Dominic Wilcox
Here’s a selection of projects by Chinese architect Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio, who has been named 2012 Pritzker Prize Laureate (see our earlier story). More about Key Projects by Wang Shu
Competition: we've teamed up with publishers Routledge to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Le Corbusier - béton brut and ineffable space 1940-1965 by Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini. More about Competitions: five copies of Le Corbusier - béton brut and ineffable space 1940-1965 to be won
Dezeen Wire: Spanish architect and urban designer Manuel de Solà-Morales has died at the age of 73 - El País Catalonia
The architect was Professor of Urbanism at the School of Architecture of Barcelona and his most famous works include the Moll de la Fusta seafront promenade in Barcelona.
More about Manuel de Solà-Morales (1939-2012)
Offices for a water-management company designed by Dutch architect Wiel Arets are nearing completion in Maasbracht, the Netherlands. More about Regiocentrale Zuid by Wiel Arets Architects
Dezeen Wire: a series of summer camps are to take place this year at Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania to teach skills in architectural problem-solving to high-school pupils and school-leavers hoping to study architecture at university.
Led by architects, the seven-day-long camps will involve drawing and model-making workshops, as well as lessons in Wright's principles for architecture. More details on the Fallingwater website.
See a lego model of the house here and designs for six cottages in the surrounding nature reserve here. A movie about the life of Frank Lloyd Wright is currently in production - read more about it here.
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These five measuring spoons give the correct quantities of flour, water, yeast, sugar and oil to bake the perfect loaf of bread. More about Bread spoons by Niels Datema
Japanese studio Tato Architects have converted a warehouse in Osaka into a house where residents can climb up the walls. More about House in Izumi-Ohmiya by Tato Architects
Slideshow: London studio Peter Barber Architects has completed a centre for drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Ilford, northeast London. More about Redbridge Welcome Centre by Peter Barber Architects
A series of lamps, tables and storage made by New York designer Stephen Burks in collaboration with basket weavers in a village outside of Dakar is on show at the Design Exchange in Toronto. More about Man Made Toronto by Stephen Burks
Dezeen Wire: Chinese architect Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou is the 2012 Pritkzer Prize laureate. The prize organisers have confirmed the news after details were leaked ahead of schedule. More about Wang Shu wins Pritzker Prize 2012
This movie filmed by Spanish graphics studio Taller de Casqueria shows a theatrical dance performance taking place inside the Espacio Andaluz de Creación Contemporánea, a contemporary arts centre that is under construction in Córdoba by architects Nieto Sobejano.
More about Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos on Dezeen here
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