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The Temporium: this tea service by Tina Tsang of London design brand Undergrowth Design is the latest addition to the designer gifts on sale at our pop-up store The Temporium in London next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a movie by photographer Luke Hayes that shows the making of Carmody Groarke‘s Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial, which was quarried in France installed outside London’s Natural History Museum. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Tord Bootje presents a collection of work made with lace-making techniques from materials including grass and raffia at the Marsden Woo Gallery in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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 skyscraper with a zig-zag channel cut into the facade is the winning design by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas in a competition to design a new office building for Shenzhen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: we’re kicking off our new Designed in Hackney initiative today, showcasing world-class architecture and design created in the borough that’s home to Dezeen’s offices and one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games. First up is the London 2012 Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Today Virtual Design Festival partners with Braun to present a series of talks and a competition to win a Braun speaker and watch. The collaboration kicks off at 12:00pm UK time with a live talk with designer Benjamin Wilson and writer Dr Peter Kapos about the past, present and future of the influential design brand. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: artist Ai Weiwei, architect Bjarke Ingels and designer Joris Laarman are among the winners of WSJ. Magazine‘s first Innovator of the Year Awards, a prize honouring the world’s most creative and progressive individuals. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stuttgart photographer Zooey Braun has sent us his images of this hotel in Ramsen, Germany, by Naumann Architektur, with tree trunks in guests’ rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has sent us these photographs documenting growing architectural metropolises in several Asian cities. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the second design by new Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro, called Mercury, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Eneseis Arquitectura have inserted this glass-fronted box housing a cultural centre into a town square in Alicante, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This clock that’s adjusted via a rubber belt was designed by Argentinian architect Daniel Weil of Pentagram as a gift for an architect. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dublin creative agency Boys and Girls has installed a new reception desk supported by giant Jenga blocks at one end and balloons at the other. (more…) View the full article

British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has sunk the Coral Greenhouse to the seabed in Australia so its cement and steel frame can be a habitat for marine life. Read more View the full article

The latest completed venue for the London 2012 Olympics is the Basketball Arena, a PVC tent designed by Sinclair Knight Merz with Wilkinson Eyre and KSS. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Germany, one of six countries bidding to host the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund, have selected Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) to design a sustainable HQ in Bonn if their bid is successful. (more…) View the full article

DezeenTV: in this second movie in our Dezeentalks at [D3]Design Talents series, London designer Tomás Alonso talks about being an exhibitor as part of [D3]Design Talents at imm cologne, his favourite projects and making a mess at OKAY Studio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: whether you fancy the Frenchman, the Millionaire, the Tennis Coach or the Fireman, the characters in this range of designer sex toys have been created in response to stereotypical female fantasies. (more...) View the full article

This week we featured projects at Selfridges' Festival of Imagination, where Dezeen has created an augmented-reality shop and Dominic Wilcox has installed absurd inventions like a tea cup with a cooling fan (pictured) in one of the department store's windows. More architecture and design news follows, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Tokyo studio Nendo have collaborated with a traditional Japanese potter to create a flat, square loudspeaker made of 1mm thick ceramic decorated with intricate patterns. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Tokyo house by Japanese architects Key Operation has been designed around the movements of the client’s pet cat, writes Yuki Sumner. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German design collective ART+COM have installed over a thousand rising and falling metal raindrops in Singapore’s Changi Airport (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London firm Zaha Hadid Architects has completed a 330,000-square-metre retail, office and entertainment complex in Beijing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: a fairytale-inspired Essex house by architecture studio FAT and artist Grayson Perry was the most discussed project this week. Read on for more on this and the other most commented stories on Dezeen. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]