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In a bid to solve the UK's housing crisis, Estonian design collective Kodasema has launched its prefabricated 25-square-metre micro home that takes less than a day to build and can be relocated to make use of vacant sites. Read more 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

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

An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly. (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

Interview: the UK is a difficult place to "do architecture" thanks to the dominance of the commercial sector and a lack of government investment says British architect David Chipperfield, whose firm is refurbishing Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. (more...) 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

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. …

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dezeenwire: the UK government has announced it is abandoning plans to build or refurbish 715 schools and scrapping the Building Schools for the Future programme in a £5 billion cost-cutting drive: Department for Education </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here’s an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. (more…) </img></img> </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

Having designed offices for Facebook and AOL, San Francisco designers Studio O+A have completed the headquarters of another internet company in California – this time web hosts Dreamhost. (more…) </img></img> </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

London office Levitt Bernstein have completed an energy centre for the University of Liverpool in the UK, clad in diamond-shaped aluminium scales. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Dezeen are in Milan today where the design shows are underway, including this pavilion covered in wooden windmills by Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article