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Dezeen Screen: this movie by Frankfurt designer Hanna Emelie Ernsting demonstrates the many possible ways to nestle into her Moody Couch. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design, hosts a virtual 360-degree vernissage for the premiere of its new exhibition Kiruna Forever in the first part of today's VDF x ArkDes collaboration. Tune in from 11:00am UK time for the tour. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: London furniture company and Dezeen office-mates Chest of Drawers have been awarded a Guardian Sustainable Business Award for their system that rates the sustainability of each wooden product. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

With Milan design week about to start, we asked designers to name their favourite hangouts in the city. Highlights include a plant-filled gin distillery, a "chocolate factory" and a locomotive factory converted into a gallery. Read more View the full article

The Temporium: behind the fourteenth window of our Advent calendar of products on sale at The Temporium are quirky homewares by British design brand All Lovely Stuff, including these salad servers shaped like smiling dinosaurs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British studio MoreySmith delved into the archives of online fashion retailer Asos for textiles patterns to use while refurbishing the brand's London headquarters (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brooklyn studio Bower's booth at this year's ICFF in New York included mirrors designed to look three-dimensional and minimal black lamps with ball-shaped bulbs. Read more View the full article

Cutaways in the brick facade of this family home by Seoul studio OBBA provide views over a small walled garden in the city's high-density Gangnam neighbourhood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato has installed coils of aluminium sheeting at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo. (more…) </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

Dezeen Wire: in an interview with Farah Nayeri for Bloomberg Businessweek, architect Rem Koolhaas describes the European Union as “an incomplete machine” and claims that it will “disintegrate” unless political leaders complete the task of integration begun when the EU was founded. Koolhaas also talks about working in China, the global workforce currently inhabiting the countryside and his former employee, Zaha Hadid, who he says was “a very independent and massively talented person from the beginning.” Dezeen spoke to Rem Koolhaas and other partners from his practice OMA at the opening of OMA/Progress, an exhibition at the Barbican art gallery in London. You can see t…

The future is fleshy, according to Lucy McRae. As a new exhibition of her work opens at NGV in Melbourne, the designer explains why she believes the human body holds the key to the development of technology. Read more

This animation by Emmy Castelain flips through our new Dezeen Book of Ideas, which features 116 projects by the world’s best creative minds. We’ll show the animation at our party in Barcelona this evening - click here for more details and your invitation. Watch the movie » If you can’t attend in person, you can order the book online for just £12 at www.dezeenbookofideas.com. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our popular story on the smartphone with an old-fashioned rotary dial by Richard Clarkson (top left), we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archives about telephones. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we reported from the Inside awards in Barcelona, where a hotel in a former Japanese Army headquarters by NHDRO walked away with the top prize. A glass bedroom on the shoreline in Finland was the most popular story with Dezeen readers this week, along with a sculptural pavilion for viewing wild reindeer by Norwegian architects Snøhetta, described in one comment as “the stuff of fairy tales.” Foster + Partners unveiled an ambitious plan for a transportation hub in the Thames estuary, OMA added a new building to Cornell University’s historic campus in New York and BFLS designed a new college building in Cardiff with a wing-like metal roof. We compil…

Dezeen Space: our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform kicks off at Dezeen Space today, with architect/shoe designer Julian Hakes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of the third collection of furniture by London designer Faye Toogood, this time exploring iridescent materials, on show at Phillips de Pury & Company in London this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, the Design Museum and Roche Bobois, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Heatherwick Studio, UXUS and more… (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

The London Design Festival may be over but Dezeen Space is still open at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN until 16 October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Zellerndorf, Austria, by Vienna studio Franz Architekten comprises three separate units linked by glass passages. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Slovenian firm OFIS Arhitekti have created an apartment in Ljubljana where rooms are separated by staggered floors rather than walls, with storage areas located underneath. (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

The French Senate has passed a bill saying Notre-Dame Cathedral must be rebuilt as it was before the fire, which destroyed its roof and spire last month. Read more