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London-based designer Paul Cocksedge's Here Comes the Sun blanket would allow people to "socialise safely and confidently" outdoors once Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have been lifted. Read more View the full article

Rooms in this Bangalore house are arranged around a large indoor pool that occupies a double-height atrium below a glazed roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Hepworth Wakefield gallery designed by David Chipperfield Architects opens to the public this Saturday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects StudioGreenBlue have inserted concrete bars behind the glazed wall in this family home in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Atelier Masomi has designed a cluster of five raw-earth buildings that will become the Niamey Cultural Center in the capital of Niger. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: in case you missed it elsewhere, Patricia Urquiola’s Bend-Sofa for B&B Italia is on display at their London showroom for the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a Hong Kong boutique for Stuart Weitzman - her latest sinuous store interior for the American footwear designer. (more...) View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs including positions with Heatherwick Studio, John McAslan + Partners and Cinimod Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with Studio Greg Lynn in Vienna, UNStudio in Amsterdam and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week MVRDV caused a commotion by designing two towers engulfed in a pixellated cloud that put readers in mind of the World Trade Centre’s destruction on September 11. Meanwhile UNStudio unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. Artist Olafur Eliasson designed fort-like banking headquarters to rise out of the sea and Thomas Heatherwick completed a Hong Kong shopping centre with waves of stone parting either side of the entrance. On Dezeen Wire Herman Hertzberger was named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture – we’ve rounded up his key projects here - and a sci-fi animation about robots took home o…

Dezeen promotion: architecture and design products database Architonic present impressions of Interieur 2010 in Kortrijk last month on their Facebook page. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo 2010: here’s another chair by Japanese design studio Daisuke Motogi Architecture (see our earlier story), this time made from a thin mattress folded into a concertina. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

If pharmacy packaging leaves you feeling perplexed about what you’re taking, then these medicine packets named after symptoms rather than ingredients will be right up your street. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Herman Miller Lino office chair is designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin to offer optimum comfort and a "wide range of aesthetic options" in the workplace. Read more View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs, including positions with Studio Greg Lynn in Vienna, architects UNStudio in Shanghai and Amsterdam, furniture brand Vitsoe and designers Cinimod Studio in London. This is also the last chance to apply to work with architects Studio Octopi, Established & Sons and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The first sex toy created by retailer Wild Flower is a genderless object meant to suit a variety of bodies. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen and photographer Edmund Sumner, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Knoll International and more… (more…) View the full article

Design Miami/Basel has announced that Asif Khan, Mischer’Traxler and Studio Juju are the winners of the 2011 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: designer Thomas Heatherwick is to be awarded the London Design Medal 2010 at a ceremony in London tonight. See press release below. See all our stories about Heatherwick » See all our stories about London Design Festival 2010 » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Karim Rashid has created this rotational-moulded chair for Italian furniture brand B-Line. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London brand (and near-neighbours of Dezeen) House of Hackney have created a range of floral wallpapers and fabrics that turn black at the edges. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The inaugural Dubai Design Week will feature projects from 10 international design schools including London's Royal College of Art and Swiss college ÉCAL for its future-themed Global Grad Show (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Plaster walls, terracotta tiles and powder-blue details feature 28 Posti, a restaurant in Milan that has been revamped by architect and designer Cristina Celestino. Read more View the full article

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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…

MVRDV co-founder Jacob van Rijs explains how the staggered formation of his firm's Haus am Hang in Stuttgart gives every floor its own outdoor space in the latest movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). (more…) View the full article