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This little house in Tokyo by Japanese architect Kozo Yamamoto has a triangular courtyard and an L-shaped roof terrace tucked behind its walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler present a basket-making machine that stops working when nobody’s looking at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. (more…) View the full article

This captioned video produced by Dezeen for Autodesk reveals Philippe Starck's A.I. chair for Kartell, which the software company claims is the first chair designed using artificial intelligence to be put into production. Read more

Israeli office Chyutin Architects have completed a student centre for the University of Haifa, protruding out from the side of Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A collection of 30 dinner plates designed by Albert Schrurs of Allegory combine to create a map of France showing the location of the country’s Michelin-starred restaurants. (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 Ai Weiwei covered the floor of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with porcelain sunflower seeds and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister talked to us about his work at Vienna Design Week. David Kohn Architects installed an event space called Skyroom on the roof of the Architecture Foundation’s London offices and an underground railway station with criss-crossing concrete beams reminded our readers of a sci-fi computer game. Meanwhile, British car manufacturer Aston Martin announced that they would launch a luxury compact city car and Copenhagen-based KiBiSi designed a furniture range resembling sand bags. Structural engineer Cecil Balmond lef…

Cologne 2011: London designer Harry Thaler‘s Pressed Chair is one of two joint winning projects in this year’s [D3] Contest, an international competition for young designers organised by imm cologne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss firm Markus Schietsch Architekten has completed a new elephant house for a zoo in Zurich featuring an elaborate wooden gridshell roof and a glass-sided swimming pool (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Readers are debating Herzog & de Meuron and Quadrangle's plans for a super-skinny skyscraper in Toronto and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. 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 …

Competition: we’ve teamed up with authors Kerstin Zumstein and Helen Parton to give away five copies of their upcoming book Total Office Design. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the winning designs in 12 of the completed project categories at the World Architecture Festival awards have been announced. The winners were selected from over 700 entries from 66 countries around the world and will now go forward to compete for the overall prize of World Building of the Year 2011, to be announced tomorrow together with the prizes for Structural Project of the Year 2011 and Future Project of the Year 2011. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this music video by London designers Airside for new Flashman track To The Victor – The Spoils! tells the story of an epic voyage through a series of vignettes that come to life one by one. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. (more…) </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

The Temporium: come down to our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium in London from 9-19 December and register your details for a chance to win one of several great giveaways, including a signed, limited-edition copy of Peter Blake: Alphabets (above), a 675 Chair by Robin Day, a Rabbit light by Front for Moooi and more. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This snaking concrete pavilion by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects winds down from a road to the beach along the edge of the Arctic Ocean. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Torafu Architects have designed a lidded bowl that can be split into two parts and mounted on the wall as shelves. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London interior designer Linda Morey Smith is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about designing offices for brands including Sony Music, Red Bull and Nokia. Watch the movie » Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architecture studio Adept has used customised curved bricks to clad the five-storey Theodora House housing block alongside the Elephant Gate at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen. Read more View the full article

Five existing concrete kiosks in Madeira have been wrapped in volcanic basalt and overlapped by the walls of a new registry office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs from the exhibition Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto and currently on show at the Barbican gallery in London. (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

New York showroom DDC NYC is exhibiting three furniture collections at VDF's products fair, including Zanotta's updated model of Carlo Mollino's skeletal Reale table. Read more View the full article