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Our most popular story in September was the Ostrich Pillow by Kawamura Ganjavian, squishy headgear meant for sleeping in public, plus Dezeen collaborated with Apple and 3D printing got controversial.

Second up it’s The Pool Shophouse by FARM and KD architects, a converted 1920s shophouse in Singapore with, you’ve guessed it, a pool inside.

Dominic Wilcox’s No Place Like Home GPS shoes with LED lights in the toes to guide you home are at number three.

Fourth place goes to the Offices for Junta de Castilla y León by Alberto Campo Baeza, wrapped in glass behind a stone perimeter wall.

An interview we filmed with curator Justin McGuirk about his Golden Lion-winning exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale, looking at community living in a vertical slum in Caracas, comes in at number five.

In News, the 3D printing revolution took a controversial turn in September when it emerged that libertarian activists in the US planned to distribute open-source blueprints for homemade 3D-printed guns.

Dezeen was featured in Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5 and makes an appearance in the movie demonstrating the new product. That same month, Apple was named best design studio of the past 50 years at one-off D&AD ceremony and it emerged that Apple industrial designer Jonathan Ive is to design a camera for German brand Leica.

Danish architect Henning Larsen was among the five laureates of the Praemium Imperiale arts prize and Peter Zumthor (above) was named as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture.

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Taking the top spot in our August popular stories is House T by Hiroyuki Shinozaki, a house in Tokyo with large openings in the walls and floors, while the news was dominated by the preview of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

The first gender-neutral toy department at London store Harrods lands at number two, designed by London and Singapore architects Shed.

The Pierres Vives government building in Montpellier, France, by Zaha Hadid came in third.

At number four it’s Tea Houses by Swatt | Miers, three glass pavilions situated on the edge of a valley in northern California.

Number five has a special staircase for dogs, designed by 07Beach in Ho Chi Minh City.

The opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale dominated architecture news, with director David Chipperfield (below) saying “This biennale isn’t an X Factor of who’s hot right now” but architect Wolf D. Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au claiming the Biennale “cannot get and worse” and places too much importance on celebrity. See our top five pavilions from this year’s event here.

Back in London Dezeen hosted Designed in Hackney Day, a series of talks and discussions with some of the most interesting designers and architects from Dezeen’s local borough. Read highlights from the day here and watch the Designed in Hackney Day movies we filmed here.

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