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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

Polish artist Monika Grzymala will fill a London gallery with lengths of black and white sticky tape at an exhibition that opens in October. (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

Eindhoven designers Edhv have created a series of posters by tracking the movements of insects. (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

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

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

Tokyo studio Kidosaki Architects have completed the interior of a combined cafe and gallery in Aichi, Japan, with nest-like profiles cut out from the top of one wall. (more…) </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

This week’s most popular story on Dezeen was the Faustino Winery by Foster + Partners, so here’s a roundup of projects from the Dezeen archives featuring factories, wineries, laboratories and other industrial buildings. See all the stories about industrial buildings » </img></img> </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 visitor centre by Danish architects EFFEKT will have a series of ramped green roofs and sit at the heart of the Hareskoven forest in Copenhagen. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At their Amsterdam headquarters Dutch design collective Droog present plans for a house by Japanese studio Atelier Bow-Wow, to be built behind an existing townhouse facade in Amsterdam and furnished entirely with the Droog collection. (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. …

Following the unveiling of the shortlist for the 2017 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards, we've created a Pinterest board of some of the most eye-catching architecture images on Dezeen, taken by photographers such as Rory Gardiner, Edmund Sumner and Iwan Baan. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest 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

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

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

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

Dezeenwire: Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore reports on Make It Right, actor Brad Pitt’s project to rebuilt a district of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina – The Observer Related stories: Float House by Morphosis for Make It Right Hot Links Duplex by Atelier Hitoshi Abe for Make it Right Duplex by Pugh + Scarpa for Make it Right Duplex by Frank Gehry for Make It Right Brad Pitt signs up architects for Make It Right </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a house in Osaka, Japan, by Yoshihara McKee Architects of New York and Tokyo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is the other winning competition entry for a new opera house and cultural centre in Kristiansund, Norway, by Danish architects C. F. Møller. (more…) </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

Barcelona studio The Emotion Lab have designed a watch that displays the phases of the moon. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a retail and business centre for the resort of Jesolo near Venice in Italy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article