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This time last year Foster + Partners completed a solar-powered urban development in Abu Dhabi and unveiled plans for a museum in the same city with wing-shaped towers designed to act as thermal chimneys. Dezeen compiled an extensive report for kitchen appliances brand Scholtès that explored the relationship between food and design, Yves Béhar of Fuseproject sent us early sketches of his Jambox speaker and we rounded up all of our stories on education buildings. Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal for a theatre in Morocco was described by one reader as looking like “a giant mobile phone or maybe a vacuum cleaner,” and architect Álvaro Leite Siza designed a home for himsel…

Stockholm 2012: Note Design Studio present a collection of furniture inspired by camping and field trips at Stockholm Design Week this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This coffee table by Chilean studio Elemento Diseño is made of a single sheet of plywood, with the legs cut out from its corners. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Hackney entrepreneur Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh talks about inventing her fix-anything, air-curing rubber called Sugru and some of the imaginative ways people have put it to use. (more…) View the full article

Movie: the third tour we filmed at the Royal College of Art graduate show features work from the Innovation Design Engineering course, including a candyfloss machine for recycling plastic and a bicycle for recycling copper from electrical wires. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: here are the first images of the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron designed by Thomas Heatherwick, unveiled at the opening ceremony of the games tonight. (more…) View the full article

Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has extended a house in a Sydney suburb so that it looks like a doll’s house with the back wall taken off (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: delicate flowers and foliage are protected by the steel cages around these concrete vases by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: British designer Ross Lovegrove presented a futuristic concept car shaped according to instinct rather than science at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Our Dezeen Watch Store elves are beavering away to ship every watch order in time for Christmas. To ensure delivery before Christmas Day, please place orders by the following dates: ► International and EU orders by Monday 17 December ► UK orders by Thursday 20 December Don’t forget we’re currently offering free shipping on all orders! Visit Dezeen Watch Store | See all our new watches | Buy the new Uniform Wares 152 series (above) View the full article

Product news: colourful LED torches shaped like the handlebar grips of BMX bicycles by British designer Alexander Taylor have gone into production with Hong Kong brand Praxis. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Swedish designer Staffan Holm has created a shelving unit that concertinas flat for Scandinavian brand One Nordic. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London (where Nendo debuted the Scatter Shelf pictured above), Heatherwick Studio, Foster + Partners and Studio Fuksas, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Stanton Williams, Media 10 and more... (more...) View the full article

Fetishistic suits of armour, orthopaedic braces and wearable tusks all feature in an exhibition of prosthetics at the SHOWcabinet space in London (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A blackened steel counter continues into a mirrored wall in this Aesop skincare shop by Japanese studio Torafu Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has designed packaging for coffee-flavoured beer by adding little bean-shaped stickers to the brewer's existing bottles. (more...) View the full article

The breeze flows through the centre of this funeral chapel that Tria Studio has completed at a village cemetery in Slovenia's picturesque Tuhinj Valley (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

South Korean architect Moon Hoon designed this home with missing corners for a figurine collector and his family (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This maritime museum in the Netherlands by Dutch studio Mecanoo features reclaimed wooden cladding and a zig-zagging roof that reference the gabled houses of the surrounding hamlet (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architects Agnieszka Preibisz and Peter Sandhaus have unveiled a conceptual skyscraper for Berlin with a twisted figure-of-eight structure that curves around elevated gardens and is held up by cables. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Richard Hutten has created a conference table that can easily be converted for a game of ping pong. (more...) View the full article

Chilean studio MAPA referenced local vernacular building techniques by placing two sheds within a larger one for this family house in the forests of the Andes mountains in Chile (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This reflective metal-clad box containing a restaurant rises like a periscope above a small shopping complex in São Paulo by French-Brazilian architecture office Triptyque (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Danish brand Gubi will be launching a side table and updates of existing stool and chair designs by Copenhagen studio GamFratesi at the Urban Stories exhibition during Milan design week. (more...) View the full article

Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed a wallpaper collection influenced by the shapes and patterns found in Modern architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article