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Comments update: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's declaration of the death of fashion led the debate this week. (more…) 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

Austrian designer Marco Dessí will present a collection of furniture made from folded and tubular steel in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Stoneways is a series of pared-back porcelain surface tiles by Caesar Ceramics that take cues from rocks and their mineral veins. Read more View the full article

Coronavirus lockdowns have caused a lack of public toilet facilities for people who are social distancing outside, but designers of outdoor urinals have the answer – and France is leading the way. Read more View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with NAi Publishers to to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of the Dutch Design Yearbook 2011. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower has highlighted the widespread neglect of the UK's residential high-rises, and the undeserved contempt held for the people that live in them, says Owen Hatherley. Read more View the full article

This baguette shop in Warsaw, Poland, by architects MFRMGR is modelled on market booths and stalls set up in the city during the 1990s (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

More than 300,000 people are now signed up to receive Dezeen Weekly, our curated newsletter sent every Thursday. Read more View the full article

German photographer Menno Aden has shot a series of Berlin interiors from an unconventional viewpoint: looking down from the ceiling. (more…) View the full article

A conceptual New York skyscraper, imagined as "the longest building in the world", had some readers exercising their imagination in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the 2011 Pritkzer Prize laureate, the prize organisers have confirmed after details of the winner were leaked ahead of schedule. Read the full announcement below: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Foster + Partners have completed the first of a cluster of buildings entirely powered by solar energy at Masdar City, a sustainable urban quarter in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (above) is one of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artists Studio Job of Belgium have launched this rotational-moulded chair for Dutch design brand Moooi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’re offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of the new paperback edition of Twenty-First Century Design by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Spaceworkers has inserted a house-shaped cultural centre inside a nineteenth-century schoolhouse in Parades, northern Portugal. (more...) View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering 10 readers the chance to receive a book of sketches and watercolours by Mikkel Frost, a founding partner of architecture studio CEBRA. Read more

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

The leading parties manifestos contain bold pledges that will change Britain's cities for generations, says Phineas Harper. He takes a look at the architecture and housing policies ahead of the UK's general election. Read more View the full article

As voters took to the polls last week for the UK's general election, the Royal College of Art's MA fashion students were putting on their end-of-year show at an old studio in east London. Design reporter Alice Morby picks her highlights from the evening's catwalk show, installations and performance pieces. Read more View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have designed stackable packaging for a range of products by Japanese cosmetics brand THREE. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian firm Ancerl Studio has designed a pair of houses in Toronto to make them look like a single building. Read more View the full article

Translucent glass doors fold open to reveal the studio that architecture firm Estudio Nu has created inside a dental mechanics workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more View the full article