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Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these photographs of a university library in Tokyo by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto that has an exterior of timber shelves covered by planes of glass. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: former Foreign Office Architects co-founder Alejandro Zaera-Polo has opened his new studio, Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more photographs of Peter Zumthor’s recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, taken by UK photographers Hufton + Crow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An undulating landscape made of 65,000 discarded CDs carpets the floor of the Centquatre art space, housed in a former funeral home in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year London company Hulger launched the Plumen 001 designer lightbulb, which went on to win this year’s Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award. A culture and leisure centre by Philippe Starck opened inside a former wine cellar in Bilbao as Hungarian architects Plant completed a winery at the foot of a volcanic hill in Hungary. London Fieldworks installed bird and bug boxes around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing, Nendo unveiled their acclaimed Thin Black Lines series of furniture and The Waterhouse at South Bund by NHDRO hotel opened in Shanghai. See all our stories from September 2010 » See our review of la…

Designers Andrea Mancuso and Emilia Serra created a 3D sketch of a living room by suspending strands of wool from fishing wire. (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 designers Tom Dixon and Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Marcel Wanders, Buro Ole Scheeren and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have positioned a scaly crown over the top of this Basel museum (photographs by Roland Halbe and Duccio Malagamba). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This concrete social-housing block in Paris has artists’ studios on the ground floor and an oval-shaped opening in the roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the third new watch in our 2012 Dezeen Watch Store collection is the BN0111, a sports watch from the Braun range. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year architects and designers around the world were rallying to come up with creative ways to raise money for Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that had just struck Sendai. Designs included a video appeal, a variety of posters and images for sale and instructions for making origami cranes. Elsewhere, industrial designer Yves Behar unveiled a mobile phone with staggered square buttons, while architects BIG won a competition to design some prefabricated wooden housing in Finland and a sculptural low-energy light bulb was named design of the year by the Design Museum in London. We featured some offices inside pulped paper caves, as we…

Chilean architects Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy designed this house in Santo Domingo as a cluster of prefabricated modules. (more…) View the full article

Kanye West‘s first short film was shown on seven cinema screens surrounding the audience inside a pyramid designed by architects OMA at the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. (more…) View the full article

Here are some photographs of the Stanton Williams-designed Hackney Marshes Centre, which provides facilities for London’s amateur football leagues and won an RIBA award last week. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Spanish lighting brand Santa & Cole has launched a lawsuit accusing the state of Qatar of copying street lighting devised for Barcelona by Catalan designer Beth Galí in 1996. (more…) View the full article

Every surface inside the top floor of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is covered in QR codes, which visitors decode using tablet computers to explore ideas for a new Russian city dedicated to science. (more…) View the full article

News: there will be no curved or glass walls on any new school buildings constructed in the UK, thanks to a set of government guidelines released this week. (more…) View the full article

Hard hats and high visibility jackets are displayed as fashion items at this Singapore boutique that architects Ministry of Design designed for a safety equipment brand (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Industrial design studio Priestmangoode drew inspiration from domestic interiors to design a first-class cabin with sofas and wardrobes for Brazilian airline TAM. (more…) View the full article

News: in 2012 the total number of skyscrapers constructed around the world failed to increase for the first time in six years, says the annual report from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, revealing the continued impact of the global financial crisis that started in 2007. (more...) View the full article

Rough walls of locally sourced rubble surround this house on the south coast of Ireland by Dublin studio Aughey O'Flaherty Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

East London studio IWANT has overhauled the birth certificate to bring it into the digital age and make it more personal. (more...) View the full article

Product news: the seat of this chair by Venetian designer Luca Nichetto is made of folded felt. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the second part of London graduate exhibition New Designers will showcase industrial, graphic and spatial design projects from today until 6 July. (more...) View the full article

News: Adidas has revealed its latest running shoe – combining a flexible knitted upper with a new version of its Boost "energy return" midsole that uses materials usually found in BMW cars (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article