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Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola's first collaboration with Danish metalware brand Georg Jensen includes upside-down jugs and a set of tilted vases (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural designer at DUS Architects in Amsterdam, which recently built a 3D-printed micro home (pictured) and is also working on a 3D-printed canal house. More › View the full article

Dezeen promotion: London trade show designjunction is set to collaborate with British design brands Anglepoise and ercol to curate an exhibition and charity auction, during next week's London Design Festival. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: one of our most popular stories this week was about a prefabricated house in Portugal that costs the same amount of money as a family car (top left) so here’s a roundup of other prefabricated designs that have been published on Dezeen. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Stockholm Design Week, the founder of the Material Library in Stockholm reveals what Scandinavian designers look for when they visit, and discusses environmentally friendly materials. Read more View the full article

This alarm clock created by Adrian and Jeremy Wright for French design brand Lexon is turned on and off by flipping it over (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Belgian artist Carsten Höller has created a set of tableware for Porcelain manufacturer Nymphenburg, depicting the iconic Flying City project by the late Russian architect Georgy Krutikov. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This exclusive photography by Monica Nouwens captures the razing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as part of controversial plans to redevelop the site with a Peter Zumthor-designed building. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake‘s calendar works like a retractable tape measure, with one centimetre for each day of the year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial design graduate Lisa Frode has created a desk with a fabric cover, inspired by the way aeroplane cabins can be divided with curtains to create different rooms during the flight. (more…) View the full article

A bubblegum-pink corridor and a forest green kitchen feature inside this Bilbao apartment, which architecture studio Azab has brightened up with bold hues. Read more View the full article

The illusion of giant cable knits was created by prints on sportswear fabric in Westminster student Philli Wood's BA fashion collection. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2012: New York and Amsterdam designer Karim Rashid presented this sofa with modular arms and headrests slotted into a high back at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this month. (more…) View the full article

Huge terracotta wine vaults are concealed beneath a vineyard at this winery outside Florence by Italian firm Archea Associati (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: people strolling by this brick wall in London might miss the disguised entrance to a secret office and home. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In case you hadn’t noticed, this week we opened our Christmas shop The Temporium at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG. Drop in to see over 20 designers and brands selling their products direct to the public, plus 10% off Dezeen Watch Store and the chance to win a goodie bag worth £100. Meanwhile Burger King opened a rustic-style fast food joint to rival last week’s McDonalds refit and our most popular story was a Swedish seaside house with a glass-fronted lookout loft on its roof. Readers debated whether the latest Maggies cancer care centre represents a downward spiral or enveloping arms and a jagged glass restaurant by a Norwegian cliff…

Designed by Royal College of Art graduate Elena Larriba, Vycle is a pedal-powered, vertical transportation system that offers a sustainable and efficient alternative to lifts and stairs. Read more View the full article

In our final lecture as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Dutch architect Francine Houben talks about her influences and the founding of Mecanoo. Read more View the full article

These vases made of sand are shaped according to the principles of an old Japanese game. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian architecture office Atelier Pierre Thibault has completed a lakeside house in a forest near Quebec, which is raised above its hillside site on thin metal stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tiny dimples and raised dots cover these ceramic tiles by French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this film from the Tales of the Hunt series by Brussels gallerist Victor Hunt, designers Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer of Raw Edges show how they make furniture with a pleated, paper-like skin that’s strong enough to sit on. Watch the movie » </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 us at Dezeen, Form Us With Love, and Faye Toogood, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Edmund Sumner, Dezeen and more… (more…) View the full article

Glass screens slide back and forth across a timber grid that divides this apartment in Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Barcelona-based designer Guillermo Santomà installed a series of sculptural and "transgressive" structures in the lavish interior of a baroque-style mansion in Madrid. Read more