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Dezeen readers were surprised to discover that David Bowie was an extensive collector of Memphis furniture last week, and speculated how much his collection will sell for in our comments section this week. Read more View the full article

Based on a Japanese puzzle, the legs of this table by German design studio DING3000 knot together to create support for the blue glass tabletop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The first images taken by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) latest solar telescope show the cell-like structures "the size of Texas" that cover the sun's surface. Read more View the full article

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 Screen: in this movie we filmed at the inaugural Qubique design show in Berlin in October, Margo Konings and Margriet Vollenberg of Organisation in Design guide us through a sample of pieces on show as part of Ventura Berlin, the area they curated at the show. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects BIG have completed their 8 House residential project with a figure-of-eight plan in Copenhagen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this multilevel bench formed of plywood wedges is by Brussels firm JDS Architects and one of ten benches exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British architect Terry Farrell has unveiled conceptual proposals to convert London’s Battersea Power Station into a park, which oppose existing plans for a mixed-used development by New York architect Rafael Viñoly. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro has converted the former house of a poet into a writer’s retreat (photos: Do Mal o Menos). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, SCP Contracts and Heatherwick Studio, whose proposal for a pedestrian garden bridge to span the River Thames is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Marc Newson, Lee Broom, Jerry Tate Architects and more... (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we're offering up to 25% off selected watches in the winter sale at Dezeen Watch Store, with all sale purchases over £60 eligible for free worldwide shipping. (more...) 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

Design studio Local Office for Large Architecture (LOLA) have completed the menswear section of a department store in southern Italy that first opened in 1859. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will present a collection of rugs for Spanish brand Nanimarquina at Maison & Objet in Paris this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A glistening aluminium canopy undulates above the heads of waiting passengers at a bus station in Slough, England. (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

This time last year Álvaro Siza completed an L-shaped auditorium clad in grey tiles and white marble and Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka created a boutique interior for Issey Miyake’s collapsible clothing range. The V&A announced the shortlist for their Exhibition Road development, which was eventually awarded to AL_A, and a house in Switzerland featuring a faceted concrete volume placed on top of a traditional stone building was a hit with our readers. Less popular were a complex mountainside house in Patagonia, which was described by one reader as “the worst kind of self-indulgent, egotistical architectural gymnastics,” and a conceptual algae-producing tower …

A century-old tree soars up through the roof of this restaurant in Beijing, which C+ Architects has decked out with rammed-earth tiles, travertine and timber. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Space: Brendan Magennis will be running a micro workshop demonstrating his range of Whackpack Furniture at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German photographer Peter Nitsch has sent us a selection of his latest series of photos, documenting combined businesses and homes in Bangkok, Thailand. (more…) </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…

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have won a competition to design a children’s hospital and a teaching/research centre in Zurich, Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio Knevel Architecten have completed this villa located on IJburg, a new residential district in Amsterdam built on a series of artificial islands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we featured a couple of intriguing aviation stories: our readers were amused and bemused by a transportation concept resembling a floating inflatable cloud, while Foster + Partners completed the world’s first commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Meanwhile, a proposal for an office completely covered in digital adverts drew unfavourable comparisons to sci-fi film Bladerunner and two universities got new digs: a former granary was transformed by Stanton Wiliams into a campus for Central Saint Martins in London and Steven Holl Architects released images of an aluminium clad sports centre for Columbia University that is under construction in Ne…

This kettle by ECAL graduate Estelle Sauvage uses a light bulb to heat water for a cup of tea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article