A shelving unit displaying children's clothes doubles up as a plywood playhouse with a sliding staircase, swinging doors and removable furniture. More about Pop-Out House by Mut Architecture and Benjamin Mahon
Zaha Hadid's London Aquatics Centre was one of our most popular stories this month, so we've compiled a list of our top ten stories about swimming pools. More about Dezeen's top ten: swimming pools
Architect Jean-Baptiste Bouvet has completed a hillside swimming pool that steps down to a terrace overlooking the scenic French landscape. More about Pool on the slope by Jean-Baptiste Bouvet
Boston studio Ruhl Walker Architects have completed a wildlife recovery centre in Hawaii. More about Hawaii Wildlife Centre by Ruhl Walker Architects
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Oscar Diaz has redesigned the pen pot so there's no need to tip pens all over the desk or jam your fingers down the side to retrieve a paper clip or pencil sharpener that's slipped to the bottom. More about Pen Pal by Oscar Diaz for Doiy
Fir trusses create triangles that meet in the middle of the ceiling at a community hall in California designed by Siegel & Strain Architects. More about Yountville Community Centre by Siegel & Strain Architects
Dezeen Wire: Angela Brady will take over from Ruth Reed as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects tomorrow. Brady was elected in July 2010, as reported in Dezeen Wire last year. More about Angela Brady becomes RIBA President
Visitors enter a museum of energy near a nuclear power plant in Spain through a curved wall of light. More about Museum of Energy by Arquitecturia
Stuttgart architects (se)arch have completed a house in Germany with an exposed concrete base and cedar shingle-clad upper walls (photographs by Zooey Braun). More about House F11 by (se)arch
An army of 100 scarecrows dressed in glowing decontamination suits kept a sinister vigil over the Dockville Festival in Hamburg earlier this month. More about Radioactive Control by Luzinterruptus
The timber stalactites of an undulating cave-like ceiling bear down around the bar of a coffee shop in Łódź, Poland. More about Zmianatematu by xm3
Dezeen Wire: UK design organisation Hidden Art is to close at the end of September due to cuts in its funding. More about Hidden Art forced to close
London Design Festival 2011: British designer Jasper Morrison will show his Lightwood Chair for Japanese company Maruni as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival next month. More about Lightwood Chair by Jasper Morrison
Dezeen Wire: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has described Beijing as a prison and a city of violence in an article published on the website of American magazine Newsweek.
The article was published despite Chinese authorities forbidding the artist from giving interviews, following his release in June from 81 days of detention.
Residents at this remote Australian lodge can step straight out of bed to the side of a long narrow outdoor pool. More about Beached House by BKK Architects
Nobody likes hospital waiting rooms. Barcelona design agency Fuelfor have designed a series of conceptual improvements to make them a little more bearable. More about Rethinking the Waiting Room by Fuelfor
These stools by Swedish designers Glimpt are made in Vietnam from rolls of seagrass, bound with the thread that's normally used to make hammocks. More about Superheroes by Glimpt
This house by Masahiro Kinoshita of KINO Architects comprises four blocks branching off from a central living and dining room, with an attic above each one. More about Branch House by KINO Architects
Dezeen archive: our most popular story this week is Zaha Hadid's Wangjing Soho retail complex for Beijing, so here's a roundup of all our stories about projects in China. See all the stories »
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Planks of a picnic table are draped over the railing at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. More about Picnic Table by Michael Beitz