Dezeen Wire: architecture graduates Lee Wilshire and Nick Varey have launched an initiative called Riot Rebuild to help repair homes and businesses in areas of the UK affected by riots in the past week. More about Architecture graduates launch Riot Rebuild
Five existing concrete kiosks in Madeira have been wrapped in volcanic basalt and overlapped by the walls of a new registry office. More about Registry Office of St Vicente by Duarte Caldeira
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London Design Festival 2011: Hungarian studio A+Z Design will present these cute lamps with squashed heads at Tent London during the London Design Festival next month. More about Pillhead lamps by A+Z Design
The golden ratio determines proportions throughout this raw concrete house in Germany. More about Absalon by Denzer & Poensgen
Dezeen Screen: here's an animation of the competition-winning proposals by New York architects WORKac to create a cultural hub on a St Petersburg island that has been closed to the public for over 300 years. Watch the movie »
More about Dezeen Screen: New Holland Island by WORKac
The roof of this extended house in Melbourne sweeps outwards to create an exterior canopy and curves steeply upwards over a double-height dining room. More about Clifton Hill House by Sharif Abraham Architects
This lamp by German designers Tobias Sieber and Samuel Treindl is cast from 10kg of copper, so its value will increase with metal prices. More about Copper Lamp 10kg by Tobias Sieber and Samuel Treindl
Dezeen Wire: 41 projects have been shortlisted for the inaugural Inside awards as part of Inside, the World Festival of Interiors that takes place in Barcelona from 2-4 November 2011. See the full shortlist below. More about Shortlist announced for Inside awards 2011
The roof of a cafe pavilion in a German town cemetery is edged with both round and pointed arches. More about Cafe Pavilion Düren by Architekten Martenson und Nagel Theissen
Open-plan rooms of subtly different proportions are created by an off-centre courtyard in this square house in rural Japan. More about Doughnut House by Naoi Architecture & Design Office
Pyramidal chimneys perforated by square windows draw light into the playrooms of a Japanese nursery by Archivision Hirotani Studio. More about Leimondo Nursery School by Archivision Hirotani Studio
Ron Arad's cylindrical cinema screen made of 5600 silicon rods opens at the Roundhouse in London today. More about Curtain Call by Ron Arad at the Roundhouse
Raw concrete and rough limestone clad the interior of a London ice cream parlour designed by branding studio Vonsung. More about Polka Gelato by Vonsung
Industrial design graduate Florian Schmid made these stools by folding fabric that's impregnated with cement then drenching it in water. More about Stitching Concrete by Florian Schmid
This roof of this sea-facing holiday house in Mandurah, south of Perth, jolts up and down to create four irregular gables. More about Florida Beach House by Iredale Pedersen Hook
French studio CUT Architectures have extended a Paris house by squeezing a glass-fronted music room and a garage between the building and its neighbour. More about Extension to a house in Chaville by CUT Architectures
London designer Mark Noad has revamped the London Underground map to be more geographically accurate. More about London Tube Map by Mark Noad Design
In this movie filmed at DMY Berlin, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs chaired a panel discussion with editors and authors of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. More about Open Design Now launch at DMY Berlin
Square box windows provide seating areas at a hospital unit in Bath, UK, for sick and premature babies. More about The Dyson Centre for Neonatal Care by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios