A concrete floor merges with seating inside and outside this rusted steel and glass extension to a Victorian-style house in west London, designed by local architecture studio McLaren Excell (+ slideshow). More
Following the flurry of graduate fashion shows that took place this week, we've pinned the most interesting and outrageous collections by emerging designers from the pages of Dezeen onto a new Pinterest board.
The living and dining rooms of this house overlooking a river valley in Connecticut, USA, are contained in a timber-clad box raised up by concrete buttresses (+ slideshow). More
This collection of furniture was influenced by the steel reinforcing bars that are embedded in concrete to improve its tensile strength. More
Music: Australian animation studio Dropbear used over 340 painted cassette tapes and floppy disks to create the stop-motion animation in this music video for producer Opiuo's new track Quack Fat. More
Strips of black-stained timber give a charred appearance to this extension to a north-west London flat, designed by Fraher Architects to create a bigger kitchen for a client who loves to cook (+ slideshow). More
Bangkok-based THINKK Studio has constructed a low-tech machine that lets users customise the shape and colour of their own thread lamps. More
Architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales has transformed a traditional white brick house in Mexico City into an apartment complex, with the addition of a row of black penthouses (+ slideshow). More
A pair of glass doors, weighing almost four tonnes and measuring six metres in height, pivot out towards the garden of this renovated Antwerp home. More
This week we reported on UNStudio's new university campus in Singapore, a housing development by Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, and a tiny museum in New York (pictured). Click through for a roundup of architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our regular featured music track. More
Furniture that has been extruded and manipulated into distorted forms by Dutch designer Sebastian Brajkovic is on show at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris (+ slideshow). More
The buildings of this California housing community were designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects to suit the domestic and social needs of adults with autism – the fastest growing developmental disability in the US (+ slideshow). More
Wire lattices form the backs of this pair of chairs by Rotterdam-based Studio WM for Danish brand Menu, with one positioned the opposite way around to the other. More
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a project architect with Richard Meier & Partners, whose 163-metre-high Taichung Condominium Tower, is pictured.
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Graduate shows 2015: spinning light-up accessories and giant inflatable snakes feature in our design editor Dan Howarth's picks from the 2015 Royal College of Art MA Fashion presentation (+ movie). More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Royal Academy of Arts to offer readers the chance to win two pairs of tickets to the RA's sold-out lecture with Bjarke Ingels. More
Extra Moooi: interiors could soon feature carpets on the walls as well as the floor thanks to Moooi's advanced "print on demand" technology, according to designers (+ movie). More
London designer Dan Britton has created a typeface that's intentionally difficult to read to simulate the problems faced by people with dyslexia. More
With more people working from home and property prises rising around the world, homeowners lucky enough to have outdoor space are replacing the traditional shed with studios, guest rooms and flexible work spaces. Here are 12 of the best examples from Dezeen's archives (+ slideshow). More
Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects stripped a house back to its concrete frame to create this pared-back open-plan villa featuring red brick walls, pivoting glass doors and leafy gardens (+ slideshow). More