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Vienna-based Ar. Alexander Diem captures eyeballs with this absolutely impressive, extraordinary villa by the lake in Western Austria - manifesting the theoretical underpinnings of his office.

India's Ar. Sanjay Puri bags three coveted awards at the prestigious World Architecture Festival and the World Festival of Interiors - the largest annual festival and live awards programmes for the global architecture and design community. Read here...

'Art can be a very integral part of one's lifestyle statement' proves Ar. Dipen Gada as he carves this luxurious penthouse with vast spaces in synch with each other and with art in a seamless soliloquy… Check it out and leave us your views...

Ar. Gaurav Roy Choudhury creates a three-dimensional volumetric play in this modern home in Bangalore. Check it out here and leave us your comments…

A sensuous approach to the integration of craft and decoration into design a.k.a. Ar. Josef Hoffman-style, raises the bar at Harrod's shoe salon for designer Manolo Blahnik. Feast your eyes on this European Art Nouveau approach and leave us your views...

Others can support our habits and sometimes resist habit change.

The design of this residential community by Ar. Zaha Hadid is very much unlike her other iconic fluid forms. Is she moving on to a new level of simplification? Check it out here and do leave us your views...

What is it about the black-and-white colour palette that at once attracts and holds fast to one's sensibilities? Check out Ar. Igor Sirotov's latest monochrome offering and leave us your views...

Designersblock as a venue of LDF2015 shines bright with cross-cultural influences and design tenets that are at once steadfast and intriguing . Check out the review here...

What is it that makes a common man crave for an identity for his abode as much he does for himself on a personal level? Check out this artistically sculpted home by Ar. Sanjay Puri and leave us your views…

Public art projects are manned with an intention of eliciting some cultural feedback and significant finsings in the ethos of a city and its peple. Is this truly accomplished? Check out Baptiste Debombourg's work at Nantes and leaev us your views…

What is it about wood and minimalism in Japanese architecture that intrigues while it is timeless? Check out this home by Ar. Masahiko Sato and leave us your views...

Ar. Masahiko Sato refurbishes an old concrete home in Japan by introducing warmth through wood and plenty of light. Check it out here and leave us your feedback…

Libraries are spaces meant for interaction and foster progressive thought. Check out this new library in Montreal readied for the 2030's and leave us your views…

The design of the new Al Jazeera UK headquarters breaks the mould of the 'black box' studio and re-imagines how broadcast facilities are designed. Tell us what you think of this

I'm an admirer of Caitlin Flanagan's skills as a writer of prose, and I like that she likes to take on topics that others shy away from. But it's always bothered me that the Atlantic lets her write articles that, under guise of book reviewing or some such, make sweeping statements of social trends without any kind of empirical backing or even recognition of the possibility that assertions can be verified or not through data. Fortunately, for the first time ever this blog has an intern, Ryan McNeely, currently pursuing an MA at Princeton and conversant with research methods and facts in a way that Flanagan isn't. I asked him to poke around at her latest article which posits that very young teen girls are spearheading a cultural counterrevolution against a burgeoning hookup revolution. Not surprisingly, there seem to be some problems.

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, akaThe Elvis of cultural theory, is given the floor to show of his polemic style and whirlwind-like performance. The Giant of Ljubljana is bombarded with clips of popular media images and quotes by modern-day thinkers revolving around four major issues: the economical crisis, environment, Afghanistan and the end of democracy. Zizek grabs the opportunity to ruthlessly criticize modern capitalism and to give his view on our common future. We communists are back! is the closing remark of Slavoj Zižeks provocative performance. Our current capitalist system, that everyone believed would be smoothly spread around the globe, is untenable. We find ourselves on the brink of big problems that call for big solutions. Whatever is left of the left, has been hedged in by western liberal democracy and seems to lack the energy to come up with radical solutions. Not Zižek. Interview: Chris Kijne Director: Marije Meerman Production: Mariska Schneider /Pepijn Boonstra Research: Marijntje Denters/Maren Merckx Commissioning editors: Henneke Hagen/Jos de Putter

Yesterday's Sunday Times devoted the lead slot of its front page to a long examination of the effects of the web on the attention spans of teenagers. In the tradition (yes, it is now a tradition) of Nick Carr, the piece concludes that, essentially, our smartphones - and our Facebook and our YouTube and our web in general - are robbing kids of their ability to concentrate. Neuroplasticity! "Researchers say the lure of these technologies, while it affects adults too, is particularly powerful for young people," the piece notes. "The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks - and less able to sustain attention."

At TEDxSydney, Rachel Botsman says we're "wired to share" -- and shows how websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human behavior.