Researchers and students from the University of Stuttgart used 30,000 spiky components and a robot to create a pavilion described as the "first architectural structure realised with a designed granular system" (+ movie). More
Kazakh designer Nissa Kinzhalina has created a pair of chairs that look like unfinished sketches when viewed from the side. More
London is becoming a global centre for the collectable design market, contributing to a glut of new gallery architecture. But other cities and countries are also riding the wave of investment in art and design, with recent examples including Los Angeles' The Broad art museum, and China's numerous new institutions. Explore our new Pinterest board that collects together the best galleries from the pages of Dezeen.
Atelier Vens Vanbelle has extended a notary's office it completed five years ago in the Belgian village of Horebeke, adding mirrored walls that reflect both the original building and its pastoral setting (+ slideshow). More
Beijing architecture firm Remix Studio has transformed a traditional house in the city's Dashilar area into its own office space, pairing glass and steel with the original wooden structure (+ slideshow). More
Music: animator and director Danny Madden of Ornana Films referred to the design of old French lithograph posters to create this multi-layered illustrated video for Pink Floyd vocalist and musician David Gilmour. More
London studio RA Projects has reconfigured and refurbished a house owned by fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic, adding a blue steel staircase in the centre designed to look "like a sculpture in a gallery" (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen: Elon Musk, the founder of electric car company Tesla, mocked Apple's plans to move into the electric-car market, while industrial designer Marc Newson created controversy with a tea set that features handles made from mammoth tusks (pictured). More
New York designer Joe Doucet created the packaging and branding for a new brand of sake, including a dimpled glass bottle designed to represent the mountains of Japan's Niigata Prefecture. More
Built in Lyon's docklands, Jakob + MacFarlane's new headquarters for international news channel Euronews features an acid-green facade punctured by two huge egg-shaped holes (+ slideshow). More
Czech designer Martin Jakobsen has created a globe-shaped cocktail glass that keeps liquids contained with a giant silicone stopper (+ slideshow). More
Opinion: the Chicago Architecture Biennial's diverse range of participants and mediums offers hope for the future of the discipline, despite protestations from self-appointed "gatekeepers" of the profession like Patrik Schumacher, says Mimi Zeiger. More
The governor of Illinois has announced plans to sell Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago – a move that could lead to the demolition of the Postmodern government office building. More
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an interior designer at the studio of Karim Rashid, the New York designer who created the curvaceous interior of Munich sex shop Fun Factory (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Italian design office Make That Studio has unveiled a jug based on the water-smoothed shapes of riverbed pebbles (+ slideshow). More
As SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion closes this weekend, this movie by Stephenson/Bishop takes a closer look at the details of colourful plastic structure, which will now move to a permanent home in Los Angeles (+ movie). More
Thousands of curved tiles cover the gabled rooftops of the new folk-art galleries at the China Academy of Arts, designed by Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates to look like a small village (+ slideshow). More
A deep slice through the body of this house by Japanese studio Alphaville reveals a trio of staircases that angle up between different rooms (+ slideshow). More
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for intermediate architects at the Beijing headquarters of MAD Architects, which modelled its Chaoyang Park Plaza (pictured) on the topography depicted in Chinese landscape paintings. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.