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Dezeenwire: architect Nigel Coates is to retire from his role as head of architecture at the Royal College of Art in London after 16 years. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Inga Sempé will present this ash chair and table for Swedish brand Gärsnäs at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in Sweden next week. (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

More than 2,000 dimmable light bulbs and a selfie-friendly fabric fill the grand interior of this cocktail bar on Moscow's Red Square in Russia. Read 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

Dezeen Screen: designer Paul Priestman is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie he talks about designing aircraft interiors. 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

Architecture firm ODA has designed a residential building in downtown Seattle that splits in half to create an elevated private park. Read more 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

Dezeen Wire: Nicolai Ouroussoff, outgoing architecture critic at the New York Times, reviews the Central China Television building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas of OMA: “The forms are a reworking of classical perspective; the irregular structure is an attack on Modernist ideas about structural purity”. Read Ouroussoff’s review | Read Dezeen’s August 2008 story about the CCTV building (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A prayer room occupies a white turret in this house in Chandigarh designed by architecture studio Charged Voids to reference the work of Le Corbusier. Read more View the full article

Small Discoveries: in our second movie for Perrier-Jouët, Viennese design duo Mischer'Traxler discuss the champagne flute they designed for the brand, which causes bubbles to stream from a small engraved moth. (more…) View the full article

We’ve just sent out Dezeenmail issue #52 - have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Alex Josephson, co-founder of Toronto studio Partisans, speaks to Dezeen in a live Screentime talk sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast live from 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel has designed a sprawling, stone-clad residential development for the outskirts of Quito that echoes its mountainous surroundings. Read more View the full article

Divooe Zein Architects has turned an abandoned house in a wooded area of a park in Taiwan into a net-covered educational events space called The Forest Big. Read more

Swedish furniture and homeware brand IKEA have released this 140-page cookbook without any words. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie made to coincide with the Design Museum’s Sustainable Futures exhibition, exhibitors at London graduate show New Designers talk about their views on green design.Can’t see the movie? Click hereThe video features an interview with designer Sophie Thomas from the Design Museum’s advisory board, plus graduate designers Sebastian Cox, Tortie Hoare, Rich Pearson, Tom Broadbent, [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the VOID V01 watch by Hong Kong designer David Ericsson is now available in a copper finish at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a mosque, Islamic centre and museum in Tirana, Albania. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Angela Brady has been elected the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. See press release below.Angela Brady elected next President of the RIBAAngela Brady has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. Angela will become President [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents possibilities for the re-use of vacant factories in former industrial towns across Russia. (more…) </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

Product news: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's minimal suspension lamps that create a tangle of wires to produce a climbing plant effect have gone into production. (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

Rooms in this Bangalore house are arranged around a large indoor pool that occupies a double-height atrium below a glazed roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article