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Dezeen have teamed up with Laurence King Publishing to give readers the chance to win three copies of Planning Office Spaces by Juriaan van Meel, Yuri Martens and Hermen Jan van Ree. (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…

A spiralling concrete slide connects the kitchen and child’s bedroom of this family house near Jakarta designed by Indonesian architects Aboday and photographed by Happy Lim. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scottish brewery BrewDog have packaged their latest range of beers inside dead animals. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Falling-Down Collection is a series of porcelain containers that Studio Meng-Chan Yu is presenting during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Plastiki boat made entirely from plastic bottles (see our earlier story) has arrived in Sydney after a 130-day voyage across the Pacific from San Francisco. More information on the Plastiki blog.See also: our story about the boat’s design.</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

For this month’s top ten we’ve compliled our most popular stories about jewellery. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with stationery brand Moleskine to give away four architectural monographs from their new series of books called Inspiration and Process in Architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bjarke Ingels has hit back at accusations of sexism at his architecture firm, following the controversy over that Instagram post. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with designers Cibicworkshop to give away five construction games based on iconic buildings by renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Big-Game of Lausanne have won the Swiss Federal Design Award with their shelving system comprising aluminium slats on wooden frame. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge stadium update is defeated after the planning permission expired. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this desk is one of seven new pieces to be launched by British designer Russel Pinch at 100% Design this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: French designer Pierre Favresse presented this collection of furniture with looping sections and bent ply at the Nouvelle Vague exhibition of new French design in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Sam Tisdall Architects has incorporated Victorian-style criss-cross ceiling struts into the contemporary interior of this new house. (more...) View the full article

Dezeenwire: British architect David Chipperfield is to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. See press release below. See all our stories about David Chipperfield » Listen to our podcast interview with David Chipperfield » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Berliner Ensemble theatre group has removed around 500 of its 700 seats to prepare for reopening in alignment with Germany's social-distancing policies. Read more View the full article

Imagine waking up in a glass bedroom by the waterside on a remote Finnish island. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office has designed the interior of a food-photography studio in Tokyo. (more…) View the full article

The Temporium: we have ten Jambox portable wireless speakers in limited-edition packaging designed by Yves Behar of Fuseproject on sale at The Temporium, our pop-up design store in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Dutch designers Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong unveal a prototype of their Feats per Minute project, a bicycle that allows you to play records on its wheels as you cruise through the city, at our our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy has shared with us his short film imagining an autonomous, artificially intelligent, sustainable city (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Samsung and Dezeen have teamed up to launch a global contest seeking innovative designs for the home that can be made by repurposing cardboard packaging. Read more View the full article

Cardiff and Amsterdam-based design studio Smörgåsbord has developed Cymru Wales, a "nation-defining" font family that gives an accurate, digital expression to the Cymraeg language for the first time. Read more View the full article