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London Design Festival 2010: London designer Héctor Serrano will present these reconfigurable wooden figures at 100% Design this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers Axel Hildenbrand and Shay Alkalay, and Barbara Friedrich of Architektur & Wohnen live on stage from 12.30 in the The Ramazzotti D3 Lounge at imm Cologne today, as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents series. The interviews will be broadcast on Dezeen at a later date. More info plus the full schedule in our earlier story. See films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: trade fair 100% Design opens on Thursday this week as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Haworth white papers: higher education institutes around the world are undergoing radical change as they swap old-fashioned lecture rooms for flexible learning spaces, according to an expert in educational environments. Read more View the full article

Visitors enter this nursery in northeast France through a curving concrete orifice. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve got just two of these limited edition V01 18k watches so you’ll need to be quick to snap one up from Dezeen Watch Store, either online or at The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The High Line Section 2 in New York (top left) and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (bottom left) were among our most popular stories this month so here’s a roundup of our ten most-clicked stories about parks and gardens from the Dezeen archives. (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

This multi-storey car park in Soissons, France, by Paris firm Jacques Ferrier Architectures has an undulating facade of vertical timbers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More than 100 trees will adorn the gridded facade of IKEA's city-centre Vienna Westbahnhof store, which will have no car parking spaces. Read more View the full article

A louvred timber canopy fans up from the centre of this restaurant near Sydney by Australian architects Koichi Takada. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here some photos of the new Palo Alto offices of internet services company AOL, designed by San Francisco designers Studio O+A. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Italian designer Denis Guidone to give away nine of his Rigolo notebooks with slanted and squiggly ruled pages. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

This week we've selected five of the top vacancies for senior architects on Dezeen Jobs, including positions at international firms UNStudio and Studio Fuksas. Read more

Alberese stones and Carrara marble are some of the Italian materials architects Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini used for the interiors of this Tuscan holiday home. Read more View the full article

Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects has combined smoked timber joinery, huge sheets of steel and raw concrete to create the brooding interiors of this men's spa and barbershop in Dubai. Read more View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: here are some pictures of an exhibition curated by Beijing Design Week‘s creative director Aric Chen, where the childhood possessions of a Chinese actress were arranged beside illustrations of piecharts and explosions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The top stories on Dezeen this week are all about slides, skyscrapers and animal products. (more…) View the full article

This blackened-timber house by Maximilian Eisenköck provides a holiday home for three siblings and their spouses overlooking a lake near Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book of projects by Ma Yansong, director at Beijing architecture studio MAD, including the recently completed China Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin. (more...) View the full article

Employees at web consultancy Netlife Research in Oslo can take a moment for contemplation inside one of three wooden rooms dedicated to silence. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another clock designed by Giha Woo and Shingoeun (see their clock with a battery for hands in our earlier story), this time with a single spiralling arm to indicate the time in different countries around the world.Called The Bent Hands, the clock face features countries written inside concentric circles, with linked points on a spiralling [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: four new watches with natural leather straps by lifestyle brand Nixon are now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

A hotel designed by famed Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer has reopened as a luxury resort in Rio de Janeiro, after being closed for over 20 years. Read more View the full article