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Here’s a pair of concertina-style sunglasses by Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto of BCXSY. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect David Adjaye has revealed plans to group nine of Frankfurt’s existing cultural institutions onto a combined campus in the heart of the city. (more…) View the full article

The Victoria and Albert Museum have announced the six proposals for a building to house the V&A on the Dundee waterfront in Scotland, including designs by Steven Holl Architects, Snøhetta and Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: product designer Meike Langer presented this table combined with two clothes rails as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The next part of today's VDF collaboration with ArkDes features a video interview with Australian artist Linda Tegg, who has temporarily rewilded the car park outside Sweden's national centre for architecture and design. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Enchant is a porcelain surfacing collection by Caesar Ceramics that is designed to evoke wood and recreate "the feeling of a real walk through nature". Read more View the full article

The staircase in this west London house by Tigg Coll Architects has a glass balustrade and open treads to allow light to flood through from above (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the twelve winners of this year’s Dutch Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Eindoven this evening, including a robot that prints chairs from recycled refrigerators, street lamps with no poles and a bunker that’s been cut in half. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects ADEPT and Luplau & Poulsen have won a competition to design harbour-side housing blocks in their hometown of Aarhus. (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

This little titanium zinc-clad house in Melbourne is by Australian Studio Architecture Gestalten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this short interview we conducted as part of our Food and Design report for luxury kitchen appliances brand Scholtès, Design Academy Eindhoven chairwoman Anne Mieke Eggenkamp presents graduate projects involving food, including this system that uses sand to keep vegetables fresh (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Italian architect Renzo Piano says his London skyscraper, The Shard, will be loved by the public, because “it will be accessible, because it is transparent, understandable and not mysterious” – The Telegraph The public will be able to access restaurants and a viewing gallery at the top of Europe’s tallest building, which fellow architect and friend of Piano, Richard Rogers suggests “will be one of Renzo’s major works [and] one of his major successes.” Piano believes that skyscrapers such as The Shard represent the most responsible approach to tackling the issue of urban sprawl, stating: “It is more socially correct to intensify the city and free up space …

Competition: we’ve teamed up with the makers of Sugru to give away ten packs of their plastic modelling clay for hacking products. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paraguayan studio Gabinete de Arquitectura has built a structure for composting at Casa Wab arts centre that Tadao Ando designed in Oaxaca, Mexico. Read more View the full article

An exhibition of work by South Korean designer Kwangho Lee, including this seating made of woven garden hoses, will be presented at Hunting and Collecting gallery in Brussels this September. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This movie by Protein features supermodel Erin O’Connor wearing a dress that incorporates a catalytic converter. This is the first part of a collaboration between designer Helen Storey and chemist Tony Ryan to create clothes that filter pollution from the air. Music is by Radiohead. Watch the movie » Above image is by Adam Mufti </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: building-centric activities will take place throughout October in New York City, as part of a celebration organised by the Center for Architecture. Read more View the full article

Here are some more of the villas from Athens developer Oliaros‘ project on the island of Antiparos, Greece including designs from Tokyo architects Atelier Bow-Wow, Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Greek firm decaArchitecture (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2013: we're reporting on the World Architecture Festival in Singapore this week. Category winners from the first day include a whirlpool-shaped aquarium and a sports college perforated with the shapes of athletes. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast British architect John Pawson recounts how he began his career, his only use of colour in an interior and talks us through his exhibition Plain Space, which opened yesterday at the Design Museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a miniature garden that works like a living Tamagotchi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hand cranks are used to lift up huge glass doors that open to a courtyard in this Mexican restaurant, which Seattle firm Olson Kundig has completed in downtown Austin. Read more

Dezeen Wire: thirty UK branches of furniture chain Habitat are to go into administration as part of a deal involving the sale of the brand and the three London stores, the BBC reports. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This former bullring in Barcelona has been converted into a leisure complex by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, retaining the original facade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article