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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

Floating Island Restaurant by C+ Architects features a glazed dining room on stilts cantilevering from a hillside overlooking mountains in Chongquing, China. Read more View the full article

More design for the kitchen: these cooking vessels by Paris designer Laurent Corio are made of white clay with coloured enamelled interiors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Need a designer disguise? Estonian product designer Pavel Sidorenko has created this range of felt fake moustaches. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brooklyn-based designer Sara Sallam has imagined a collection of jewellery and accessories to protect the wearer from tech-enabled surveillance without concealing their features. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with publishers Phaidon to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new monograph about Dutch designer Hella Jongerius. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: École des Ponts ParisTech has launched Build'in, a platform that reflects the university's move towards digital technologies, as the construction industry changes. Read more View the full article

London studio Tamir Addadi Architecture have inserted a tiny staircase to access a tiny loft in a London house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design agency Continuum have created conceptual packaging for a single cigarette for smokers who are trying to quit. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Behind the sliding doors of a corrugated steel shed near Paris is an artist’s studio with a double-height atrium and translucent rear wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

There’s a bit of a primitive vibe going on at the moment so for this month’s top ten we’ve compiled our ten most-read stories about caves, rocks and sticks. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As the Milan furniture fair begins, Alice Rawsthorn previews this year’s event in the New York Times and compares the design industry’s fortunes to previous years. Read the story. See all Dezeen’s stories from Milan 2011. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: this stepped wooden pavilion by Irish studio dePaor Architects is on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Rotterdam designer Diederik Schneemann presents a series of vases and lamps made from recycled flip-flops found washed up on Kenyan beaches at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects Studio Bellecour have completed a pair of office buildings near Toulouse, France, wrapped in aluminum fins and connected by a twisting concrete element. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Toronto firms Public Work and Greenberg Consultants have completed a new park underneath the city's Gardiner Expressway, to provide "a vital artery for pedestrians and cyclists". Read more

Milan 2013: Netherlands-based designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny presented a solid marble chair at the Bagatti Valsecchi exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Dezeenwire: design critic Justin McGuirk lifts the lid on the furniture industry’s royalty system and asks “are designers being exploited by having to make work for free?” in his article for The Guardian, describing #milanuncut as the big story of Milan 2011. Read the full article » More about #milanuncut here » Follow the debate on Twitter » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Lee Broom is to launch a collection of furniture inspired by architraves, cornicing and mouldings during the London Design Festival next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish design duo Elding Oscarson have completed this office for design consultants No Picnic in Stockholm, divided in two by a reflective aluminium wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This shopping centre and apartment block by Slovenian architects OFIS Arhitekti is due to begin construction in Ljubljana, Slovenia, next year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Shunichiro Ninomiy used an atrium and small pool of water to admit light indirectly to the ground floor of this east-facing home in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This collection of necklaces and broaches by Swedish jewellery artist Hanna Hedman is currently on display at the Soda gallery in Istanbul. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jak Studio has redesigned the conventional L-shaped sofa to suit the "home workplace of the future", enabling it to be altered from seating or a bed into a work pod. Read more View the full article

The shape of theses vases by designers Judith van den Boom and Sharon Geschiere was derived from knotted rubber tubing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article