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Architecture firm Scott Brownrigg have completed the London office of internet search engine Google, with a giant logo in the lobby forming doorways through the two Os. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Nitipak Samsen has created a measuring tape to translate the amount of carbon stored in a tree into the amount of carbon emitted by activities like breathing and car journeys. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch practice HVDN architecten have completed this wood and aluminium-clad building to temporarily house a school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: illustration collective Le Gun have collaborated with footwear designer Tracey Neuls to create a range of shoes inspired by items discovered inside a suitcase in a Hackney basement. (more…) View the full article

London firm Rundell Associates have completed this new art and design department at a secondary school in Devon, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designers Priestmangoode have unveiled a conceptual high-speed train for the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: designer Debbie Wijskamp exhibited her collection of cabinets made from blocks of pulped paper at DMY Berlin last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Yoshihara McKee Architects of New York and Tokyo have installed a bathroom and kitchen either side of a freestanding wall in a New York loft apartment. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Julia Krantz has created this collection of garments comprising translucent fabrics draped over metal frames. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Boston architecture firm Machado Silvetti has been selected to preserve an 18th-century home in Virginia once owned by a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Read more View the full article

Design studio LOLA – Local Office for Large Architecture have completed the renovation of a paper restoration centre in Lecce, Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: design brand Established & Sons present a collection products from their Estd. range at our Christmas shop The Temporium in London, including these storage jars inspired by the shape of space capsules. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lee Broom speaks to Dezeen in a live Screentime discussion as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the British designer. Watch the broadcast live from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos created this design for the restoration of the National Archive Museum in Mexico City, located in a former prison. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers working across Europe are invited to submit their hospitality projects to the 2020 edition of the AHEAD Europe awards. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: the Sugamo Shinkin Bank in Tokyo by Emmanuelle Moureaux is one of our most popular recent stories so here’s a roundup of all our stories about banks. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: two enormous girders slice through the Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale thanks to Madrid architect Antón García-Abril of Ensamble Studio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This series of wooden LED lamps by Zoe Coombes and David Boira of New York studio Cmmnwlth is called Truncheons. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: here’s a movie filmed inside the Toyo Ito-designed Sendai Mediatheque during last Friday’s earthquake in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Renzo Piano completed a minimal monastery at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, Daniel Libeskind added an angular extension to Dresden’s Museum of Military History and UNStudio designed a cantilevered concrete observation tower. Rafael Viñoly talked to us about his new arts centre in Colchester and the most viewed story of the week was a simple house with a four metre-high door by Archiplan. Also this week, Yves Béhar of fuseproject designed a tricycle with built-in storage and Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility created a hand carved rubber pen with a gold nib. The RIBA Future Trends Survey contained some concerning statistics …

An exhibition of furniture, photography and artworks by the late Modernist designer Charlotte Perriand is on show at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in Switzerland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer David Taylor of Stockholm has created a series of candle holders made from layers of silver, steel and beech for Stockholm craft collective Konsthantverkarna. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These spinning tops by industrial designers Reddish of Israel are each made of a single sterling silver wire. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: German building-technology supplier Jung has developed the versatile G + I socket that is compatible with plug types from various geographies. Read more View the full article