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Polish artist Monika Grzymala will fill a London gallery with lengths of black and white sticky tape at an exhibition that opens in October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Laurence King to give Dezeen readers the chance to win one of five copies of Folding Techniques for Designers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this music video by London designers Airside for new Flashman track To The Victor – The Spoils! tells the story of an epic voyage through a series of vignettes that come to life one by one. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faeces, electric eels and fruit would power conceptual communities designed by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Catrina Stewart. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Anglepoise, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and LSA International, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Klein Dytham Architecture, Fredrikson Stallard and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects Rstudio have designed a combined metro station and park in Alboraya near Valencia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This dreamy holiday bunker designed by Portuguese studio Phyd Arquitectura is sunk into the landscape, overlooking the hills near Torres Novas. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: since our story about a house concealed by mist (bottom left) was so popular this week, we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archive that feature weather. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An oversailing glass roof and steel mesh curtain protect a two-storey extension and terrace at a historic Sydney house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: Kingston University graduate Andre Pereira has created a series of products to help with tricky DIY tasks, including these paint brushes that clip onto the edge of a tin of paint. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian architects Jolson have completed a house in Melbourne where cantilevering concrete slabs appear to balance on top of a bronze garden wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Dezeen readers were utterly outraged by a range of beer packaged inside dead animals. Apart from those who found it really, really funny… London mayor Boris Johnson launched the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, Herzog & de Meuron unveiled an apartment tower for Beirut and Tokujin Yoshioka filled a 15 metre-long tank with flying feathers. Dezeen launched a new comments system, which readers put to use by drooling over a concrete coffee machine, disputing the feasibility of a clock with batteries for hands and ridiculing the London Gate project. See all our stories from July 2010 » See our review of last year » </img></img&g…

Police guarding the Turkish Consulate in Hanover have upgraded their VW bus for a tiny mobile office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a media centre for the City University of Hong Kong. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Naked mannequins sit on the walls and ceiling of this MC Escher-inspired clothes store in Shanghai. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Introducing a new feature on Dezeen: here’s a roundup of the top stories, news, comments and movies this week. Our most hotly debated story was about an upside-down skyscraper designed to neighbour the Hoover Dam – you can join the discussion here. Other stories that caused a stir included stools created in an explosion and an absurdly cantilevered Berlin hotel. Check out all our stories about alarming cantilevers here. Meanwhile the RIBA revealed this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist, UK designers joined forces to promote design education in schools and Palestinian business leaders announced plans to launch a national brand. Over on Dezeen Watch Store we’ve…

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed a stadium for Bordeaux that will host football matches for Euro 2016. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Having designed offices for Facebook and AOL, San Francisco designers Studio O+A have completed the headquarters of another internet company in California – this time web hosts Dreamhost. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sarah Wigglesworth Architects designed this school in Wakefield, England, using red bricks and industrial building shapes that reflect the surrounding vernacular. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shigeru Ban Architects have designed temporary homes for Japanese disaster victims inside a chequerboard of stacked shipping containers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Rachel Boxnboim has cast a ceramic tea service inside fabric moulds. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a movie by photographer Luke Hayes that shows the making of Carmody Groarke‘s Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial, which was quarried in France installed outside London’s Natural History Museum. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects GMP Architekten designed three stadiums for the World Aquatics Championships currently taking place in Shanghai. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio Archifaktur has inserted felt-lined caves and green-floored playrooms into the loft of a 1930s primary school (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hopkins’ hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped Velodrome for the London 2012 Olympics (above) is one of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2011. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article