French designer Julien Carretero has used timber excavated from Eindhoven's medieval city walls to make a series of objects that could be used in an insurgency, including a catapult and a ladder. More about In Situ by Julien Carretero
This time last year Rem Koolhaas was named Golden Lion winner by the Venice Architecture Biennale and Snøhetta won a competition to redesign Times Square in New York. More about One year ago...
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Erik de Laurens has made a pair of swimming goggles, spectacles and beakers out of fish scales. More about The Fish Feast by Erik de Laurens
These photographs by Julien Lanoo show a French driving-test centre by Samuel Delmas Architectes, which is camouflaged to look like a fence. More about Centre d'Examen du Permis by Samuel Delmas Architectes
Here's another update from the cutting edge of toilet design: Copenhagen studio UiWE are working on urinals for women. More about Pollee by UiWE
In this previously unseen movie filmed during the London Design Festival 2010, Dezeen interviewed London designer Faye Toogood at her Super Natural exhibition inside a disused garage. More about Interview: Faye Toogood at Super Natural
Competition: we've teamed up with authors Kerstin Zumstein and Helen Parton to give away five copies of their upcoming book Total Office Design. More about Competition: five copies of Total Office Design to be won
A house once occupied by Mexican communist party founder M. N. Roy has been converted into a nightclub by French architects Emmanuel Picault and Ludwig Godefroy. More about M.N.ROY by Emmanuel Picault and Ludwig Godefroy
Estonian studio Salto Architects have completed a temporary summer theatre in Tallinn made of black spray-painted straw bales. More about NO99 Straw Theatre by Salto Architects
This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. More about House on the outskirts of Brussels by Samyn and Partners
A swirling labyrinth of cardboard conceals sculptures by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Serpentine Gallery in London. More about Mirror of Judgement by Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Serpentine Gallery
Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a car made of cartilage, a car park in a cafe and fashion accessories for the blind, plus all the best work from this year's Royal College of Art graduate show. There's also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at Dezeen Mail issue #77 here.
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TWO/BO Arquitectura and architect Luis Twose have converted a sixteenth-century Catalan house into a business academy for a pharmaceutical company. More about Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose
Clouds of mist erupt from the base of two trees in this London water feature designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. More about Silence by Tadao Ando and Blair Associates
Spanish architects Arranguren & Gallegos have converted a brewery in Madrid into a museum with an underground gallery and triangular windows. More about Museo ABC by Aranguren + Gallegos
Competition: we've teamed up with German typography magazine Slanted to give away five copies of their latest issue. More about Competition: five copies of Slanted Magazine issue #14 to be won
The chequered facade of this Bangkok showroom by architects Sansiri and landscape architects Shma is half glass and half living plants. More about Vertical Living Gallery by Sansiri and Shma
This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio Factory Fifteen was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 2011 in the architectural film/animation category. More about The Golden Age: the Simulation by Paul Nicholls
New Designers 2011: London Metropolitan University graduate Adrian Bergman has designed a modular retail display system that's only held together by rubber rings. More about Poles Apart by Adrian Bergman
Dezeen Wire: Nicolai Ouroussoff, outgoing architecture critic at the New York Times, reviews the Central China Television building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas of OMA: "The forms are a reworking of classical perspective; the irregular structure is an attack on Modernist ideas about structural purity".
Read Ouroussoff's review | Read Dezeen's August 2008 story about the CCTV building More about "Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing" - New York Times