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French designer Julian Carratero has used timber that was excavated from Eindhoven’s medieval city walls to make a catapult. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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. The Plastiki boat made of plastic bottles was racing towards Sydney on the last leg of its journey across the Pacific to highlight pollution of the seas. Meanwhile the unpopular Strata tower opened in London just as the RIBA published a survey predicting even tougher times for British architects. Mathieu Lehanneur completed the Pompidou Centre’s new education rooms, Tokujin Yoshioka made a 9-metre window from 500 glass prisms and Dezeen published movie interviews with Philippe Malouin and Tomo…

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…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These photographs by Julien Lanoo show a French driving-test centre by Samuel Delmas Architectes, which is camouflaged to look like a fence. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another update from the cutting edge of toilet design: Copenhagen studio UiWE are working on urinals for women. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: 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. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estonian studio Salto Architects have completed a temporary summer theatre in Tallinn made of black spray-painted straw bales. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A swirling labyrinth of cardboard conceals sculptures by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Serpentine Gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

TWO/BO Arquitectura and architect Luis Twose have converted a sixteenth-century Catalan house into a business academy for a pharmaceutical company. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clouds of mist erupt from the base of two trees in this London water feature designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects Arranguren & Gallegos have converted a brewery in Madrid into a museum with an underground gallery and triangular windows. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with German typography magazine Slanted to give away five copies of their latest issue. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The chequered facade of this Bangkok showroom by architects Sansiri and landscape architects Shma is half glass and half living plants. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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. Called The Simulation, it’s the first movie in a two-part series called The Golden Age. Nicholls made the series while studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture alongside his colleague Kibwe Tavares, author of the Robots of Brixton movie we published earlier this week. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: furniture and lighting designers including Russel Pinch (above), La Dune and Diffuse will exhibit prototypes at trade show Decorex International in London from 25 to 28 September 2011. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clothing brand Levi’s is introducing garments adapted for commuter cyclists, including jeans featuring storage for a bike lock. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store (and our pop-up store at 55 Neal Street until 16 July) is now stocking Iconograph, the first watch by Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Overlapping arches divide classrooms in this temporary school in Tokyo by Japanese architects Atelier SNS. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the semi-detached suburban house that was home to writer JG Ballard for 49 years is for sale, the Independent reports. Ballard lived in the house in Shepperton, London until his death in 2009. The property is valued at around £320,000. The Independent </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article