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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

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

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

Milan 2011: artists Studio Job will present this cabinet with an enormous bronze key in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More Icelandic fashion design: this time a series of concrete belt buckles by Sruli Recht of Reykjavík. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian designer Hubert Verstraeten of Tamawa will present these watches made of Bakelite at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </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

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of an extension to a youth hostel on a Portuguese mountainside by ComA Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Sruli Recht of Iceland has sent us his movie Garrote, which features a necklace from his latest collection apparently used to strangle a woman. Watch the movie » See all our movies » </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

This wooden children’s drawing case by Japanese designer Kana Nakanishi of Oiseau folds out to form a stool. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week OMA were in the news with the opening of a new exhibition of their work at the Barbican in London and the completion of their Maggie’s cancer caring centre in Glasgow. We were given an private guided tour of the exhibition by Rem Koolhaas and interviews with other OMA partners will appear soon on Dezeen Screen. Apple co-founder Steve jobs died this week at the age of 56. Meanwhile, Zaha Hadid received the RIBA Stirling Prize for an academy in south London, provoking a mixed reaction from architecture critics and Elle Decoration editor, Michelle Ogundehin sparked a lively debate on the morality of furniture copies in an article posted on her blog. …

Designer David Bowen has created a machine that scans an onion and makes a model of it every 24 hours. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: the Tom Dixon team are assembling brass and stainless steel lamps on their stand at Superstudio Più in the Zona Tortona district this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London industrial designers Priestmangoode propose hospital wards modelled on health spas and beds like those in first class airline cabins in a new manifesto for health service design, released today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong studio Davidclovers and Los Angeles artist C.E.B. Reas have created a shop front in Hong Kong where LED lighting pulses through patterns cut in the surface of two large Corian doors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: visitors lower objects into pits of molten wax then hang them from the ceiling to solidify in this installation created by students of the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva at workshops with designer Matali Crasset and curator Alexandra Midal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London have published a trends survey indicating that a significant downturn in overall levels of business for British architects is expected. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with German typography magazine Slanted to give away five copies of their latest issue. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dresden studio GPAC have designed a children’s nursery for Bühlau in Dresden that looks like 13 eggs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges created an animated pond at the Bloomberg offices in London using equipment the company had thrown away. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Laurence King to give Dezeen readers the chance to win one of five copies of Folding Techniques for Designers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Plasma Studio of London, Beijing and Bolzano have designed this LED street lamp in collaboration with lighting company ewo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: to celebrate their 150th anniversary French brand Ligne Roset are offering a 25% discount on their classic Togo seating range by Michel Ducaroy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article