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Dezeen promotion: registration is open to attend the Interiors UK furniture and lighting fair, which will take place in Birmingham next month. (more...) View the full article

A Corten steel roof folds over the upper storey and terrace of this house on the Chilean Island of Chiloé by dRN Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: our second project this week by Madrid studio Exit Architects is a civic and cultural centre inside a former prison in Palencia, Spain. (more…) View the full article

Tokyo 2010: Japanese designer NOSIGNER presented magnetic jewellery made of pearls at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architecture critic Jonathan Glancey writes about his visit to Masdar, the zero-carbon city by Foster + Partners under construction in Abu Dhabi. The Guardian See our story on the first completed building in Masdar » See our story on Foster + Partners masterplan for Masdar » See all our stories about Foster + Partners » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition documenting the working processes of international architecture practice OMA opens at the Barbican Art Gallery in London tomorrow. (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

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 …

British architects NEX have designed this cubed timber pavilion for the Chelsea Flower Show in London with the same structural form as a leaf. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To explore the possibilities of mud architecture, Rael San Fratello has created 3D-printed prototypes that take cues from historical earthen construction built along the Rio Grande river. Read more

Moving on to the five most popular stories of October 2010, Homemade is Best, a cookbook featuring pictures of ingredients laid out in patterns for IKEA, was in at number one. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house with an oversailing barrel-vault roof by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates looks across the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A music recital room resembling a Japanese tea house hangs like a lantern in the garden of a residence northwest of Washington DC. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Readers are debating Kate Wagner's coining of the term "coronagrifting" to describe outlandish coronavirus-related proposals and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

UCL architecture student Simon Kennedy has sent us his photographs of a deserted south London housing estate awaiting demolition. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Sebastian Wrong, design director for British brand Established & Sons, gives a tour of their exhibition inside the former fire station at Berlin Tempelhof airport in this movie Dezeen filmed at new Berlin design fair Qubique 2011 last month. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These models by New York studio Boym Partners are used to unlock and download DJ Matthew Dear’s latest album, entitled Black City, and you can download a free track from the album here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the 202 Series of watches by Uniform Wares is available in new colours at Dezeen Watch Store, both online and in our Seven Dials pop-up at 55 Neal Street, London WC2 9PJ until 10 July. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: graduate art and design show Free Range 2010 opens at the Old Truman Brewery in London tomorrow. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This narrow staircase with alternating steps is one of a pair installed by French studio MAAJ Architectes in a Parisian apartment. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are the first official photos of the 10th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s one of three stadiums designed by German studio GMP Architekten for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that begins in South Africa next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss studio Roeoesli Maeder Architekten has built anembassy for Switzerland in Nairobi, Kenya, as an extension of the dyed concrete boundary wall that surrounds the compound. Read more View the full article

From two precariously placed hiking shelters designed by OFIS, through to a stilted timber-frame hideaway on an old ski slope, we've rounded up 10 of the best mountainside cabins on Dezeen. Read more