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This renovation of a crumbling 1960s tower block in Paris nicknamed "Alcatraz" topped the architecture category of this year's Designs of the Year Awards and is in the running for the top prize to be announced tonight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: Isabel Helf has created a collection of bags named Portable Compulsion that reference illnesses associated with compulsive orderliness. Read more View the full article

Unable to prevent revellers urinating against their trees, Roskilde Festival in Denmark installed tree-mounted urinals by Dutch designers Aandeboom. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Dezeen Wire: The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains that the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond for next year’s Olympics in London, has been an easy target for jokes but that it demonstrates Britain’s manufacturing capabilities and says it “may even effect buildings of the future just as the Eiffel Tower and the Crystal Palace did” - The Guardian </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The top floor rooms of this house in Japan by Tato Architects are contained inside sheds that sit on the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A screened porch is sandwiched between two cedar volumes to form this holiday home that the founders of Berman Horn Studio in New York built themselves on an island in Maine. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK industry body Anti Copying in Design (ACID) is calling on designers to share their experiences of intellectual property infringement to help support its submission to the government’s review of design law. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish architect Magnus Ström wants to help the super rich commission a bespoke home the same way they buy a luxury yacht using his Superhouse brand (+ 360-degree render). (more…) View the full article

Frank Gehry's first completed building in Australia, Herzog & de Meuron's controversial skyscraper for Paris (pictured), and a folding electric bike that can be carried in a backpack feature in Dezeen Mail issue 229. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 229 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

With activities kicking off in Miami for this year's art week, including Art Basel and Design Miami, we've selected the exhibitions and installations not-to-be missed, including an inflatable bubble gallery and a sand-covered traffic jam. Read more View the full article

Music: vintage Yamaha PSR-110 keyboard graphics form a kaleidoscopic moving collage in design agency Pentagram's first ever music video, created for Jesse Hackett's track Dump Run. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Space: east London street artist Stewy joins us at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hopkins Architects has completed the Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre on a former prehistoric sea in the emirate of Sharjah, UAE. Read more View the full article

Almost a hundred small square windows scattered across the walls, ceilings and roof of a house in Tokyo allow its occupants, a deaf couple and their children, to sign to each other through the walls even when the children are playing outdoors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Ora is the fourth watch by Italian designer Denis Guidone to be available from Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Luxembourg firm Dagli+ Atelier d’Architecture have completed an office located on a rooftop in Dudelange, Luxembourg. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sports brand Nike have opened an east London store where shoppers can see themselves reflected on motion-sensitive LED walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion brand Louis Vuitton has collaborated with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama to create a collection of dotty garments featuring Kusama’s obsessional polka dot patterns for a concept store at Selfridges department store in London. (more…) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are disgusted by a marketing campaign for a gold flip phone launched by Pablo Escobar's brother. Read more View the full article

The drawers of this children’s dresser designed by Seattle product designer Peter Bristol are shaped to match their contents. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Qubique 2011: this light by German collective llot llov can be adjusted by hooking the shade onto one of a string of twenty turned wooden balls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail includes interviews with Thomas Heatherwick on his solo show at the V&A and Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby on designing the London 2012 Olympic torch. There’s also an update from Dezeen Jobs, new competitions and all the best stories and comments from Dezeen as always. Read Dezeen Mail issue 103 » Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

Wooden shutters fold, tilt and slide open to let in the sun and keep out the burglars at this weekend cabin in New Zealand by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan. (more…) View the full article

Swiss designer Adrien Rovero presents a collection of lights shaped like TV antennas at Galerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article