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Vienna Design Week 2010: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey present an installation combining sugar and silver at the Liechtenstein museum in Vienna. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch studio Inbo Architects designed these headquarters for a technology company in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, to look like a meteorite that dropped from the sky. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A pair of shell-like forms contain the two halls of this performing arts centre in Kansas City by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie of Safdie Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The week on Dezeen, graffiti artist Banksy sketched a memorial to slavery, architects and designers created a public Google Doc to promote black-owned studios and Michael Ford warned architects away from designing prisons. Read more 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

This music centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is built from recycled plastic planks and was designed by Dutch studio Architecten van Mourik. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We published a series of plant-covered buildings this week, including a living facade on a five-storey Parisian block. Keep reading for more highlights and this week's Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

These stools by Swedish designers Glimpt are made in Vietnam from rolls of seagrass, bound with the thread that’s normally used to make hammocks. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Justin McGuirk on London’s new Barclays Cycle Superhighways - Guardian</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got a thing for criss-crossing bridges at the moment so here’s another one, this time designed by NEXT Architects and Rietveld Landscape for Amsterdam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York design office Leong Leong has completed a temporary, foam-covered concept store for menswear designer Siki Im in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: Patternity has added a graphic climbing wall adorned with monochrome contours to the basement gym inside east London's Ace Hotel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate designer Kedmi Hanan’s jewellery pieces are made of computer components mounted in felt. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: German designer Stefan Diez presents this new upholstered version of his Houdini chair plus new pieces in the range for German brand e15 in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: our next movie filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan features Tord Boontje, head of design products at the Royal College of Art, giving a tour of work in the college’s show Intent, including this bag-making machine by We Do Studio. Watch the movie » </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

This luxury wooden speed boat is the latest model to be launched by Serbian yacht builders Art of Kinetik. (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: More than 50 glass spheres and hemispheres make up the Homo wall sculpture by Russian designer Grigory Gorkovenko, which can function as a clock, light and vase. Read more View the full article

The latest issue of our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter leads with dreamy hotel cabins overlooking a Mexican valley (above). There’re also new jobs, competitions, interviews and music plus details of our new pop-up shop Dezeen Super Store. Read Dezeen Mail issue 108 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival: designer Stuart Haygarth has installed picture-frame offcuts in stripes either side of a marble staircase at the Victoria & Albert Museum for the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buildings adapted to marine environments and paper structures designed for funeral ceremonies are among the sustainability-focused architecture proposals in this VDF school show by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Read more View the full article

Comments update: readers have been discussing Bjarke Ingels' impact on architecture this week, after Time magazine named him as one of this year's most influential people. (more…) View the full article

This house in Hiroshima city by Japanese firm Suppose Design Office has a central staircase branching into wooden volumes that create a series of rooms and platforms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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