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This week on Dezeen we celebrated our fifth birthday! We picked some of our favourite parties, stories and projects since 2006 and published a selection of the lovely tweets we received. Meanwhile, Foster + Partners designed a glossy production facility for supercar brand McLaren, new images of Daniel Libeskind’s museum in Dresden provoked more negative responses and one reader said a border checkpoint by Berlin architect J. Mayer H. looks “like a disfigured 1960′s spaceship with a caravan on top.” Japanese designers Nendo created an interior full of fake doors for a boutique in Kyoto and a sunken bridge that traverses the moat of a Dutch fort received reviews such as…

We’ve teamed up with publishers Merrel to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of New Architecture in Japan by Yuki Sumner and Naomi Pollock with David Littlefield, featuring photography by Edmund Sumner. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is looking for 30 young and upcoming designers to showcase their work at Dezeen Space, a project we’re hosting at a gallery in Shoreditch, London this autumn. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more photographs of Zaha Hadid‘s recently completed aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, taken by UK photographers Hufton + Crow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura have completed a house in Shiga, Japan, modelled on traditional folk houses. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Dutch designer Roderick Vos will present a shelving unit designed to reference Art Deco skyscrapers in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed this conceptual bridge for the River Thames, London, made from a series of floating elements that would be linked together and free to move with the tide. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Citizen Architect, a 60-minute documentary about late architect Samuel Mockbee of pioneering American undergraduate programme Rural Studio, premieres at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas on Wednesday 17 March. www.citizenarchitectfilm.com </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Central Saint Martins College of Art student Jeremy Innes-Hopkins has developed kits for throwing together meals from ready-prepared raw ingredients. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us some photographs of an office building designed by Portuguese architects Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas in Madrid, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo will present a chair made of thin steel rods at an exhibition of their work in Milan next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with music and arts enterprise The Vinyl Factory to give away three deluxe triple-gatefold vinyl box-sets of UK band Massive Attack’s latest album Heligoland, with artwork by band member Robert del Naja. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Paul Coudamy has created this red-gloss sliding wall unit combining a desk, bed and wardrobe for an apartment in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In Milan next month Copenhagen design collective KiBiSi will launch a folded metal chair for design brand Quinze & Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo studio Kidosaki Architects have completed the interior of a combined cafe and gallery in Aichi, Japan, with nest-like profiles cut out from the top of one wall. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lausanne graphic designer Demian Conrad has completed an identity and interior that reference typewriters for a combined library and internet café in Bellinzona, Switzerland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week’s most popular story on Dezeen was the Faustino Winery by Foster + Partners, so here’s a roundup of projects from the Dezeen archives featuring factories, wineries, laboratories and other industrial buildings. See all the stories about industrial buildings » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These photographs by Roland Halbe show a mixed-use building by German architects NPS Tchoban Voss, which cantilevers over a neighbouring rooftop in Berlin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Police guarding the Turkish Consulate in Hanover have upgraded their VW bus for a tiny mobile office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: in the final movie from our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, Germany-based designer Reinhard Dienes tells us about his design philosophy, his most recent furniture and lighting designs, and the picture he wakes up to every morning. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lyon designers USIN-e have designed an aquarium in the shape of a test tube. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: in an interview with the Sunday Times, engineer and inventor James Dyson reveals he is to stand down as chairman of Dyson and talks about the Ingenious Britain report commissioned by the Conservative Party, in which Dyson sets out ways to make Britain a leading high-tech exporter – Sunday Times Related stories: Air Multiplier fan by Dyson; The Wind by Issey Miyake with James Dyson. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Itay Laniado has designed a collapsible ladder held together by a strap under tension. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Nendo of Japan have completed the interior of a showroom in Tokyo for sneaker brand Puma with shoes displayed on a series of timber staircases. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent feature about buildings clad in weathered steel, here’s an archive in Essen, Germany, that is clad in Corten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article