This table that houses plants in its centre by St Petersburg designer Maxim Scherbakov is named after the Soviet satellite that first took living objects into space and returned them safely to Earth (+ slideshow). More
Strips of timber from the surrounding forest cover the exterior of this hotel in Sweden by Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture, so that it reflects its rural setting (+ slideshow). More
This cabin made from scaffolding is one of 22 temporary hotel rooms that popped up around Mannheim, Germany, as part of the Hotel Shabby Shabby event for the city's Theater der Welt festival (+ slideshow). More
XML architects has completed a bright white interior for a shop that sells only vitamin drinks and water in Amsterdam's Red Light District (+ slideshow). More
Curves have been scooped out of the sides of this house for a pianist in Exeter, England, creating a rhythmic series of expanded and contracted spaces that frame the garden (+ slideshow). More
Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melvær has explored different glass-blowing techniques to create colourful patterns on this series of bulbous vases (+ slideshow). More
Our latest Pinterest board is filled with sports centres, gymnasiums and training facilities, including examples from Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, BIG and Steven Holl Architects.
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This red-brick crematorium was designed by Swedish architect Johan Celsing to blend into its setting in the historic Woodland Cemetery outside Stockholm (+ slideshow). More
This cape covered in thousands of acupuncture needles was developed by Royal College of Art graduate Izzy Parker to challenge ideas about personal boundaries and human interaction (+ movie). More
World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Moshe Safdie spoke to Dezeen about his two best-known projects: Singapore's Marina Bay Sands development, which hosted this year's WAF; and Montreal's Habitat 67 building which, he revealed, was modelled using pieces of Lego (+ interview + slideshow). More
Music: a "spirit animal" slinks around after dark in director Fons Schiedon's music video for SBTRKT's track New Dorp. New York. More
Dutch studio 70F Architecture has created a pair of matching – but not identical – houses in Almere, featuring large windows that bring light into the circulation spaces rather than the living rooms (+ slideshow). More
Tokyo architecture studio Sinato added a L-shaped wall into the centre of this apartment in Japan to partition off space for two new bedrooms (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2014: British designer Bethan Gray has created a colourful collection of upholstered seating for furniture brand Workhouse (+ slideshow). More
Behind the black steel exterior of this home on the Stockholm archipelago, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has created a living space with vaulted ceilings, and bedrooms with one big skylight overhead (+ slideshow). More
This week we published the winner of the architectural photograph of the year award, futuristic trains for London and a building designed by Zaha Hadid for Cambodian genocide researchers (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week. More
The green-tiled facade of this Lisbon townhouse by Camarim Arquitectos has varying textures and opacities designed to reference the building that previously stood on the site (+ slideshow). More
News: the city of Almere in the Netherlands has selected a small curvy chapel designed by architect René van Zuuk to be constructed over the surface of the Weerwater lake. More
News: architects have been selected for two of three new "iconic" train stations in Paris that will be built as part of the Grand Paris Express ring-route rail project. More
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior project manager at Studioilse, whose interior design for a five-storey apartment building in Hong Kong is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.