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French architect Manuelle Gautrand has completed an extension to the Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut at Villeneuve d’Ascq in France. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Bill Moggridge, who designed the world’s first laptop computer (above), has won the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design studio Local Office for Large Architecture (LOLA) have completed the menswear section of a department store in southern Italy that first opened in 1859. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This boutique in Seoul was designed by Korean firm Betwin Space Design to showcase crocodile-skin handbags. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian Fashion designer Andreia Chaves has created a series of 3D-printed shoes in collaboration with Amsterdam rapid prototyping studio Freedom of Creation. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects MYCC have designed the interior for a combined coffee and book shop in Madrid, exposing the original warehouse structure and inserting a glass floor between storeys. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in the UK have announced a new Board of Trustees, following their merger with CABE in April. (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 designers Fredrikson Stallard in London and Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Google, Levi Strauss and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: as the September 11 Memorial nears completion in New York, architecture critic Rowan Moore examines the political and professional infighting that continues to dominate the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre site - The Observer </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Students at the Architectural Association in London have constructed leaf-like sculptures that curl down from a fourth-floor roof terrace to a ground level courtyard. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: Vienna Design Week opens tomorrow and local designer Thomas Feichtner will present his chair with a seat suspended at the centre of a cubic oak frame. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen screen: in this final interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri about his restaurant design within a hotel where cut-outs in the ceiling mean diners can look up into the bedrooms above. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: today’s instalment in our Designed in Hackney series is Bateman’s Row, a Stirling Prize-nominated home and studio that architects Theis and Khan designed for themselves in Shoreditch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter is out now and leads with a concrete house with a faceted facade like a rock face, which readers would rather see applied to a nightclub or church. As always, this Dezen Mail includes the latest jobs, music, movies, stories and comments from the past week on Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 102 » Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

When Royal College of Art graduate Hotzu River Cheng found out that cooking fumes were a bigger cause of lung cancer than cigarettes among Chinese women, he set out to design a better extractor fan to protect them. (more…) View the full article

Jagged glazed stairwells climb the stone walls of this eighteenth century church in Catalonia that architect David Closes has converted into an auditorium. (more…) View the full article

Reykjavik designer Katrin Olina has created a range of furniture made of bent steel tubes and a rug depicting a fictional magician. (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio BaksvanWengerden has added a splayed concrete extension to a triangular brick house in north Holland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Studiomama founder Nina Tolstrup talks about the chair she modified for the Stepney Green Design Collection and how “there are always materials to be found” in east London. (more…) View the full article

Light filters into rooms through chunky chimneys at this dark grey house in Ireland, which is behind the third door of our A-Zdvent calendar of houses named after letters. Read more about C-House » View the full article

Product News: the Pebble smartwatch, the project that raised the most money ever on crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, has gone into mass production and is set to begin shipping on 23 January. (more...) View the full article

A concrete wall supports the weight of this elevated house in southern Japan that points out like a giant rectangular telescope (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Czech architecture studio Atelier Hoffman has converted a riverside coal mill near Prague into a studio, workshop and exhibition space (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. (more...) View the full article

Dutch creative agency The Stone Twins did away with the usual imagery and photos when asked to design this postage stamp, using only words to tell a short story. (more...) View the full article