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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

Dezeen Watch Store: London watch brand Uniform Wares have launched the latest range in their 300 Series of chronograph watches, which are available now at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: critic Stephen Bayley is to chair the London Design Museum’s Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards this year. See press release below (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam-based design studio Atelier Van Lieshout will present new sculptures in bronze at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London this autumn. (more…) View the full article

This glowing gallery by Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune sits on a hill in Kumla, Sweden and gives the illusion of concave walls. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris designer Guillaume Delvigne has created a lamp with a single bulb dangling on the end of a flex, which is draped over a stand. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Even though 3D-printed haute couture garments have been gracing the catwalks, the real breakthroughs in printed clothing will come from more practical and subversive quarters, reports Claire Barrett in this article for our one-off magazine Print Shift. (more...) View the full article

Designers Ini Archibong and Chrissa Amuah will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Tune in from 4:30pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Dezeen podcast: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Dyson in this podcast recorded at the UK launch of Dyson’s new floor-standing blade-less fans. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the shortlist for this year's World Architecture Festival awards has been announced, including a cyclone-proof house, an Australian plant archive, an underground maritime museum by BIG and OMA's colossal De Rotterdam skyscraper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Canadian photographer Philip Jarmain has documented the early 20th-century buildings of Detroit that put the city on "par with New York, Chicago and Paris". Read more View the full article

Designer Mridu Sahai has created a collection of dresses that incorporate architectural fittings like this ventilation grate (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Antrepo have created conceptual packaging design for well-known supermarket products by stripping back the existing graphics in stages. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Alejandro Munoz Miranda’s kindergarten in Granada is designed for children up to three years old and has windows in rainbow colours. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with structural engineers Fluid Structures to offer Dezeen readers the chance to win one of ten copies of their book, entitled Adventures in Engineering. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A 1960’s residence renovated by London architects Duggan Morris has won the RIBA Manser Medal 2011 for the best new house in the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: graphic design magazine Grafik has ceased publication as its owners have gone into administration. More information on the Grafik blog </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokijin Yoshioka has sent us a short video of his Stellar installation at Swarovski Crystal Palace in Milan this year. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni speaks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his career and his designs for B&B Italia in this talk hosted with the Italian furniture brand. Watch the talk live from 11am New York time. Read more

Dezeen Wire: safety concerns have led local officials in Shanghai to propose the introduction of a regulation banning the use of glass curtain walls on new schools, hospitals and residential buildings - China Daily A number of recent incidents involving falling glass in the city, which has the highest number of glass-clad buildings in China, have led to concerns that poor installation and maintenance are increasing the chances of injury to the public. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio BarberMcMurry Architects used ample glazing and a see-through carport to help strengthen this Knoxville home's connection to the scenic landscape. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Morie Nishimura has made a series of hinged brass mirrors that look like butterflies when mounted on a wall. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: the latest designer rocking horse comes from Stockholm studio Front, which has based its minimal design for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna on an old bent-wood chair from the furniture brand's archive. (more…) View the full article

This week David Lynch unveiled his Paris nightclub, the Campana brothers completed their first hotel and BMW presented a pair of sustainable concept cars. Our readers were shocked by a contraceptive device incorporating a one-cent coin and disturbed by a range of lamps that are turned on when you pull their nipples. Our most popular story featured a monochrome house overlooking the Hollywood sign and readers admired the black charred facade of a tea house in the Czech Republic. A bizarre collection of crafted objects went on show at the V&A, a retractable room divider for hospital wards won the UK James Dyson Award and the RIBA asked “has the architectu…

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