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Sharks suspended in formaldehyde, graphics of oversized pills and flooring patterned with butterflies await high-rolling guests staying in this hotel suite, which British artist Damien Hirst has designed for the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Read more

Industrial designer Marc Newson has famously tried his hand at designing pretty much everything. In the second of five movies Dezeen filmed to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, Newson talks us though a range of his projects that takes in mobile phones, knives, beds, clothes, packaging and a surf board so slick it was sold as a sculpture. (more…) 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

Protruding bay windows and angular balconies feature in Rotterdam firm MVRDV's proposal for a greenery-covered high-rise complex in Amsterdam's financial district. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week will go ahead in October but with digital activities replacing most of the physical events due to coronavirus, organisers have announced. Read more View the full article

Porcelain containers based on insect eggs by Dutch designer Anke Weiss are on show as part of Eat Drink Design at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Traditional Indian crafts are celebrated in the inaugural collection from Kam Ce Kam, a furniture brand launched by 27-year-old designer Jehanara Knowles during London Design Festival. Read more

The newly opened ME Dubai hotel at the Opus by Zaha Hadid Architects features furniture by Zaha Hadid Design and curving sculptural balconies. Read more View the full article

Week eight of the Virtual Design Festival starts this Monday with a collaboration with ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design, taking visitors on a virtual 360-degree tour of the opening of its new exhibition, and much more. Read more View the full article

This faceted spiral staircase was created by Czech architects EDIT! to join two neighbouring apartments in Prague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology has completed a youth development facility, by renovating a former primary school and adding a series of covered bamboo campsite spaces. Read more

A gold pyramid and a suspended rock face feature in British artist Anish Kapoor's abstract set design for the English National Opera's production of Tristan and Isolde (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: a blue-foam model city is suspended in the top half of the Dutch pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: French architect Jean Nouvel will curate an exhibition of office spaces in Milan in April, presenting a range of scenarios to replace the "grey cultural world" of purpose-built offices (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: London designer Keiichi Matsuda explains how augmented reality could transform the way we navigate the city in the first of our video interviews with designers participating in our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. (more...) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes houses with yoga and meditation rooms from around the globe and a watch museum designed by BIG resembling a Danish pastry. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › 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

The grass of New York's Domino Park has been painted with white circles to encourage the public to stay safely apart during the pandemic. Read more View the full article

These lamps are turned on when you pull their nipples. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of design from Britain curated by London collective Bricolage Project (above) opens at the Centre Commercial in Paris on Friday. (more…) 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

An orange plastic tunnel forms a curvy seating area along the facade of this London office block – the first UK project from José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the architects of next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this movie recorded at Somerset House in London author Max Fraser talks about his Joy of Living project, where designers including John Pawson, Michael Wolfson and Brodie Neill donated artworks based on graph paper to raise money for a cancer charity. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Scenario by Italian brand MCZ is a combined TV and fireplace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The hotel in Washington DC made famous by the Watergate scandal has reopened with interiors by London studio Ron Arad Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article