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A bright white canopy undulates above the glazed walls of this chapel outside Cape Town, framing views right through it to scenic mountains, vineyards and pomegranate orchards. Read more View the full article

Dezeen movies: earlier this year Dezeen took part in Dornbracht Conversations 3 – a platform for design discussion hosted by Dornbracht and instigated by creative director Mike Meiré. Here are three short movies made by Dezeen showing highlights of the first panel, which discussed design history. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In the fifth and final part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Fredrik Öst explains how his creative agency Snask ended up acquiring a rock band. Read more View the full article

Dutch textile designer Simone Post has adapted a traditional wax printing technique to create a colourful fabric that combines 3D geometries with bubble patterns. Read more

The top-floor living room of this Seattle house projects across the garden in a twisted cantilever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam-based eyewear company Ace & Tate's shop in Antwerp has interiors clad with terrazzo made with colourful chips of recycled plastic sourced locally by Dutch startup Plasticiet. Read more View the full article

Opinion: Justin McGuirk's inaugural Opinion column for Dezeen is in two parts - in this first instalment he examines what cheap tablet computers developed for emerging markets like India will mean for high-end tech giants like Apple and Samsung. Tomorrow he'll ask why design critics are writing about technology in the first place. (more...) View the full article

Here are some photos of the recently-completed mixed-use urban block Le Monolith in Lyon, France, masterplanned by Dutch studio MVRDV and designed by five different architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: a rotating arm deposits spirals of quartz sand on the showroom floor at crystal company Lobmeyr in Vienna this week, thanks to Canadian designer Philippe Malouin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian camouflage company Hyperstealth Biotechnology has patented the technology behind a material that bends light to make people and objects near invisible to the naked eye. Read more View the full article

Design Miami/Basel 2011: London designers Fredrikson Stallard present a series of crystal lamps resembling the human eye at Design Miami/Basel this week. Watch the designers explaining their work in this movie on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Joris Laarman explains how he aims to use digital technology to create objects that resonate with people on an emotional level in the next talk in our series with Friedman Benda for VDF. Watch live from 11:00am UK time. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: London designer Nina Tolstrup of Studiomama will present this mobile kitchen at 100% Design this week, alongside instructions for visitors to make their own. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has designed a wooden bench with two fat cylindrical legs that are laid on their sides like logs. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Ilse Crawford is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about her studio in London and her work as an interior designer. Watch the movie » Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: our latest film made at Ventura Lambrate in Milan earlier this month features industrial designer Yves Behar of fuseproject talking about VUE, the watch he designed for Issey Miyake. The watch can be bought at Dezeen Watch Store. Watch the movie </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French studio Tracks Architectes has built a cinema fronted by an irregular arched colonnade in the grounds of a former convent in the town of Riom, central France. Read more View the full article

Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay has transferred folk embroidery patterns onto strips for a punched card music box, which plays the traditional motifs as sounds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2012: London designer Samuel Wilkinson presents a table with legs that are sharpened like pencils at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which opens today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

MAP Studios of Madrid have designed this table with an integrated mirror, vase and candle sticks. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors to the Afrofuture exhibition in Milan built light-up glasses from recycled materials at a workshop organised by Maker Faire Africa (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Family New York has completed this Brooklyn store for record label Fool's Gold, which features polycarbonate screens that frame a gold mirror and form niches that include a DJ booth. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Antique German leather trousers are reclaimed to form the upper of the Triglav Lederhosen shoes by Berlin designer Matthias Winkler. Read more View the full article

Swedish architect Andreas Martin-Löf has completed a weekend retreat for himself on a steep hill overlooking the Stockholm archipelago, with eye-level views of the surrounding tree canopy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article