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Photographer Patrick Miara has sent us his photographs of this art centre in Les Herbiers by French architects Forma 6. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Translucent boxes propped up on a forest of steel rods display products by skincare brand Aesop at a Hong Kong fashion store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: footwear designer Victoria Spruce presented these sculptural shoes at the Royal College of Art graduate show earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen interviewed Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel last week on the eve of the opening of the exhibition Wim Crouwel – A Graphic Design Odyssey at the Design Museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi has completed this house surrounded by car parks in Akita, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In the first of two movies filmed by Dezeen at the Blickfang designworkshop in Vienna last month, curators Stefan Diez, Saskia Diez and Stephen Burks explain the workshop’s remit to develop designers’ business and branding skills. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Rowan Moore says that a housing development built by the UK architecture show presenter Kevin McCloud’s company Hab is a positive attempt at reversing the trend for “unimaginative, overpriced, undersized” properties in the UK – The Guardian Moore describes the scheme in Swindon, England, as “imaginative and well-designed,” whilst cautioning that it will take time to determine whether McCloud’s goals of creating a community and “making people happy” have been achieved. He adds that the houses themselves are ”very plain-looking” and far removed from the aspirational properties that feature on Grand Designs. </img> </img> …

Show RCA 2011: to continue our series of graduate projects from the Royal College of Art, here’s a stool by Jack Smith that collapses when its seat is lifted. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Book of Interviews features conversations with 45 leading figures in architecture and design. You can now pick up a copy for just £8 in our summer sale. (more…) View the full article

Readers have been discussing “the abundance of introverted architecture that is coming out of Japan” recently, so here’s another Japanese house that blocks all views to and from the street but still draws light and air inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these photographs and an extended movie showing how children playing on roundabouts generate electrical power to illuminate three twirling parasols at an installation by Spanish studio Clavel Arquitectos in a Shenzhen public square. Watch the movie » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The leaves of an artificial tree at this year's Burning Man festival illuminated with "light flocks" in response to visitors' movements, heart beats and brain activity. Read more 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

When you stand inside one of these riverside pavilions in Turku, Finland, you can hear what’s going on beneath the water’s surface. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Map enthusiast and researcher Kerim Bayer has drawn from his collection of 1,366 maps to create a graphic-design book containing 5,180 thumbnail images. Read more View the full article

White Arkitekter has created a concept for a new mother and baby health unit at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more

Dutch designer Floris Wubben has created a second chair using his method of binding willow branches at they grow (see the first in our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Milan-based designer Emanuele Magini showed this sofa wrapped in a fabric wall for Italian brand Campeggi at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Woods Bagot has created four proposals for workplace design following coronavirus that merge working from home and office life to "strengthen culture and performance". Read 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

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office used materials reclaimed from a demolished house for the interior of this Tokyo shop for Australian skincare brand Aesop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes Vipp's holiday cabin designed as "battery-charging stations for humans", and the rise of the female-only design exhibitions in New York following the election of President Trump. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes the schedule of talks, interviews, movies and more taking place during Virtual Design Festival and 10 key buildings from the book Chinese Brutalism Today. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

An adjacent busy road is screened from this house by Japanese firm FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, hidden behind a wall suspended over the terrace edge to line up with the boundary wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out a special edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter packed with information about The Temporium, the pop-up design store that opens on Thursday at 221 Brompton Road, London. Click here to read the newsletter </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article