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Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio have collaborated with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students to create a courtyard stage set made of coffee tables. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris design studio A+A cooren have designed a glass vase where the neck has been turned back inside the vessel to support flower stems. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: winners of the remaining four completed building categories and nine future designs, celebrating projects that are still in development, have been announced at the World Architecture Festival, which is currently taking place in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </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

Dezeen Watch Store: O, a watch by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka for fashion band Issey Miyake, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Dezeen Space pop-up from tomorrow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firm Blaze Makoid Architecture has used blackened wood, glass and stone to create a rectilinear, multi-level holiday home near Lake Tahoe that looks toward a mountain range. Read more View the full article

German graduate designer Christoph Thetard has created a set of pedal-powered kitchen gadgets. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s an update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions at furniture brand Viaduct, designers VW+BS and design organisation Hidden Art, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with Amanda Levete Architects, Micha Weidmann Studio, Vitsœ and more… (more…) </img></img> </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

Caesar Ceramics has introduced four new porcelain surfacing collections at VDF products fair, including a range of tiles called Enchant that evoke aged and painted wood. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects Coo Planning have created this house in Osaka, Japan, with an interior on stepped levels entirely finished in timber boards. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have suspended a cloud inside the Arsenale exhibition space at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Emerging French designer Rémi Bouhaniche has unveiled a chair that he created by folding "a trapezoidal shape of foam and fabric like origami" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Dominic Wilcox claims he meant to leave these paint brushes unwashed so they would harden into coat hooks. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits – Management Today See the full list of products on the Guardian Datablog » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle has built a Corten steel guesthouse with a watchtower in Uitbergen, Belgium, for a client in the film business. Read more View the full article

Winners of Bompas & Parr's Fountain Of Hygiene competition include a machine that blows sanitising bubbles, single-dose seaweed capsules and a disinfecting doorbell. Read more View the full article

Danish architects BIG have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul that will be bridged by two smaller, horizontally rotated blocks. (more…) View the full article

VDF studio profiles: Studio Vincent Eschalier is a French architecture practice that prides itself on its diverse portfolio that features a range of bold housing projects. Read more 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

Timber, tilework and plummy hues helped Studio Modijefsky foster a "warmly familiar" atmosphere inside this long-standing Amsterdam restaurant. Read more View the full article

MVRDV co-founder Jacob van Rijs explains how the staggered formation of his firm's Haus am Hang in Stuttgart gives every floor its own outdoor space in the latest movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Tokyo 2010: Japanese designer Yota Kakuda presented a collection of self-assembly wooden furniture at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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