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Spanish studio Dooa Arquitecturas have completed an extension to a school in Torrevieja, Spain, with a blackboard as a wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We;ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture at London's V&A Museum, where Mischer'Traxler filled a room with interactive glass bubbles (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman’s hat pulled low over his eyes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German designer Kilian Schindler has created this adaptable modular kitchen system for German kitchen accessories brand Naber. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Holiday homes and hotels that also function as shoppable furniture showrooms are growing in popularity. Here are five examples including a Copenhagen hotel, a Melbourne apartment and a Hamptons house. Read more View the full article

Swiss architecture studio dB_dubail begert architectes have completed this translucent extension of a residential building in Le Noirmont, Switzerland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including work by Marcel Wanders, Tadao Ando and James Dyson. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Iranian-born British architect Farshid Moussavi has been selected ahead of Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang and David Chipperfield to design an Ismaili cultural centre in Houston, Texas. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest design from Mr Jones watches, which tells the time through numbers on the teeth of a skull, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (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

Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk says that a kitchen concept by Dutch electrical company Philips that uses decomposition to generate methane gas for cooking is an example of how we may “have to get more comfortable with bacteria and with putrefaction’s role in our ecosystem” – The Guardian McGuirk claims the Microbial kitchen concept‘s “steampunk” aesthetic offers “an alternative vision to the clinical kitchen,” and also mentions the trend for low-tech kitchen appliances, such as designer Christoph Thetard’s pedal-powered devices, which he says represent a reaction to the impending energy crisis. Last year Dezeen published a report on Food and Design, includi…

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

Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh designed Towers Road House as "a sculpture to live within", with high concrete walls that arc under a disc-shaped zinc roof. Read more View the full article

This simple brick house by architect Germán Müller features a series of large windows, offering generous views of the scenic setting in Santa Fe, Argentina (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: French designer Arik Levy is to be guest of honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair in February 2011. See press release below. See also: All our stories about Arik Levy Guest of Honour 2010 Paul Smith All our stories about Stockholm 2010 (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

London Design Festival 2010: designer Asif Khan created this shop interior using dust sheets, nylon rope and white paint. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Swedish designers studio vit present a special configuration of their storage system called 11 Boxes at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Here’s an update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Mikou Design Studio in Paris, MAD in Beijing and Schmidt Hammer Lassen in London, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Established and Sons, Camron and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

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

Lifestyle magazine Kinfolk has launched its own gallery space in Copenhagen with an exhibition of rainbow-coloured room dividers, computer-generated chairs and a striped Memphis-style bench (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article