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Atelier Masomi has designed a cluster of five raw-earth buildings that will become the Niamey Cultural Center in the capital of Niger. Read more View the full article

The first of our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up shops opens tomorrow at Skitsch as part of the London Design Festival, and our designers Zerofee have designed a free iPhone app featuring the store’s clock identity. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British brand MARK will launch this series of wooden tables and desks by Dylan Freeth at 100 % Design in London next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch studio Atelier Van Lieshout have created a mobile, indestructible dwelling with an armoured shell. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week’s selection from the Dezeen archives features all our stories about apartments. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Adi Zaffran Weisler has created a set of tables and stools by combining tree branches, trunks and twigs with plastic during the moulding process. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tom Kundig has selected his 10 favourite projects, including a house in Rio de Janeiro and a hillside winery in British Columbia, ahead of the release of a monograph detailing the American architect's work. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: London designer Ilse Crawford presents a new collection of furniture for manufacturer and distributor De La Espada at Tramshed this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: French brand Ligne Roset presented this folded mesh chair by French designer Francois Azambourg at imm cologne in Germany last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio h220430 have designed this stool made of recycled rubber. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architects Grimshaw and engineers Arup have unveiled this design for an offshore wind turbine. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and publishers Gestalten have teamed up to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Utopia Forever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designer Anna Kraitz presented these trolleys for design brand Källemo at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year London company Hulger launched the Plumen 001 designer lightbulb, which went on to win this year’s Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award. A culture and leisure centre by Philippe Starck opened inside a former wine cellar in Bilbao as Hungarian architects Plant completed a winery at the foot of a volcanic hill in Hungary. London Fieldworks installed bird and bug boxes around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing, Nendo unveiled their acclaimed Thin Black Lines series of furniture and The Waterhouse at South Bund by NHDRO hotel opened in Shanghai. See all our stories from September 2010 » See our review of la…

Designer Francesco Binfaré has designed a sofa draped in a loose leather cover for Italian brand Edra. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A slide is hidden behind the mirrored wall in this Tokyo office by Japanese studio Schemata Architecture Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

While converting existing buildings into fully functioning hospitals is unfeasible, high schools and large hotels can be used as care space for coronavirus patients, says Jason Schroer, who is director of health at HKS's firm in Dallas. Here he explains how. Read more View the full article

This time last year MVRDV architect Winy Maas was awarded the highest decoration of honour in France, UNStudio opened a pavilion in New York’s Battery Park and we revealed what it looks like inside Skype’s Stockholm offices. In other news, fuseproject launched a grating tool for making hot cacao that clips onto the side of a mug and West 8 completed a “Garden of 10,000 Bridges” that suspiciously seemed to contain just five. Dezeen readers were busy debating whether a library with shelves for walls would be constantly full of dust and also if its swastika-shaped desks were appropriate. They were also full of praise for a Puma store where sneakers appear to be walking up …

Milan 2011: Swiss brand Punkt. presented this alarm clock by British designer Jasper Morrison at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Raw Edges present furniture made from 326 metres of coiled felt at Fat Galerie in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects has created a trio of cavernous chambers from stacked silver and magenta paper tubes inside the National Building Museum in Washington DC. Read more View the full article

The latest movie in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores architect Maria Vergopoulou's concept for self-build micro homes made of bioplastic, which came third in the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition. Read more

Architecture office AP Valletta has restored an old coach house in the town of Balzan, Malta, adding a contemporary extension featuring a weave-patterned stone facade. Read more

Johannsen Gallery in Berlin present an exhibition of wallpapers by Milanese collective Carnovsky that change under different lighting conditions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian architect Fabio Fantolino has created his own apartment inside a palatial 19th-century building in Turin, using pops of green and petrol-blue throughout its interior. Read more View the full article