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French designer Julien Renault presented this chair with a circular frame at Interieur 2010 in Kortrijk last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This coin-operated wedding machine by British designers Concept Shed dispenses a pair of plastic wedding rings and a personalised receipt to newlyweds. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor talks about his design for this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the preview yesterday in London. Watch the movie » Above portrait is by Arup/Emilie Sandy Photography. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Peña Ganchegui y Asociados have completed this house overlooking the sea in Getaria, northern Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Grafik magazine is to cease publication once again. The graphic design magazine only reopened under new ownership in February this year after its previous owners went into administration in June 2010. Read a statement from the magazine’s editorial team and owners Woodbridge & Rees here and read critic Rick Poynor’s take on the news here. </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

We’ve got together with Dutch architects MVRDV to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Green Dream – How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, written by The Why Factory foundation. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: AA student Aditya Aachi has been awarded the 2011 Foster + Partners Prize for a sanitation infrastructure concept in Haiti, which was severely damaged by an earthquake in 2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Thomas Fiechtner of Vienna, Austria, has made this task lamp that can be balanced in two different positions to vary the light intensity. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Guests at an eco-hotel in Tulum, Mexico, can spend the night in a sculptural treehouse that overlooks expanses of green jungle and turquoise sea. Read more View the full article

Architect Eduard Eremchuk looked to visuals from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey when designing the Guapa Flower Shop in a historic building in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Read more

Dezeen promotion: furniture and lighting designers including Russel Pinch (above), La Dune and Diffuse will exhibit prototypes at trade show Decorex International in London from 25 to 28 September 2011. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Five years ago, when Dezeen was just three weeks old, Thomas Heatherwick’s East Beach Cafe was still taking shape on the English south coast, Zaha Hadid presented a range of Seamless furniture at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York and The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston released images of its new waterfront cultural centre by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. See all our stories from December 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

As part of today's collaboration with ArkDes for Virtual Design Festival, curator and editor Carlos Mínguez Carrasco explains how the architecture centre's idea for its book Kiruna Forever came about and why Kiruna's history is so fascinating. Read more View the full article

Australian skincare brand Aesop have launched in New York with a kiosk at Grand Central that’s made from over 1000 copies of the New York Times. (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

Dezeenwire: architect Norman Foster is working on designs for Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, California – El Economista (in Spanish) via Gizmodo More Dezeen stories about Foster & Partners </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

University of Lincoln graduate Sebastian Cox has made a range of furniture from unseasoned coppiced hazel wood. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design studio Stu.dere looked into traditional washing methods to create the interior of this laundrette in northern Portugal, which features marble and green-tile surfaces. Read more View the full article

Earth is banked up to the ground floor windows of this residence in Hidaka, Japan, by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture office Spaceworkers has designed the concrete Centro de Interpretação do Românico museum in Portuguese village Lousada to explain the history of Romanesque architecture in the north of the country. Read more View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: golden plates and cutlery become slowly submerged underwater when this table is set. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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