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Squirrel Park is a scheme of four houses made from converted shipping containers in Oklahoma City, USA, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Read more View the full article

Charlie Luxton Design decided to "refurbish not demolish" a neglected, brick bungalow on the edge of a village in the Cotswolds to create a family home. Read more View the full article

French practice Avenier Cornejo Architectes has completed a social housing block in Paris with a brickwork facade with a pattern of blue glass bricks. Read more View the full article

Argentinian architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac has used folding wooden blinds and a chunky concrete floor slab to provide shade to this house near Buenos Aires. Read more View the full article

American firm Hendricks Churchill has rebuilt a house in Connecticut to merge the aesthetic of a traditional farmhouse and contemporary details. Read more View the full article

A patchwork of wood shingles and stone form this Toronto home that local practice Batay-Csorba Architects has extended and renovated. Read more View the full article

Architect Ludwig Godefroy has designed this fragmented concrete house, which spans an 80-metre-long site in Mérida, Mexico, to draw on Mayan traditions and culture. Read more View the full article

Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. Read more View the full article

In our second of four films made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, we asked Ron Arad (above, pictured while studying at the Architectural Association) about his upbringing in Israel and how he found himself working as a furniture designer in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The colourful bedrooms that Note Design Studio has slotted beneath the roof of this Stockholm loft apartment are meant to resemble "life-sized building blocks". Read more View the full article

Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer will present a series of lights containing water tinted with food colouring in Milan later this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin designers Formfjord have made concrete pebbles for stone-skipping across water. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Philippe Schmit has completed an extension to a extension to a Luxemberg art gallery, clad in perforated brass panels. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Studio Weave have installed a meandering 324 metre-long bench on the seafront at Littlehampton in the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Finnish Lahti University of Applied Sciences students Arttu Kuisma and Janne Melajoki have rolled up 250 square-metres of recycled carpet to create this multicoloured chair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Yuko Shibata created separate living and working areas in this Tokyo apartment by installing two mobile walls. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out a special edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter packed with information about The Temporium, the pop-up design store that opens on Thursday at 221 Brompton Road, London. Click here to read the newsletter </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stripes of paving, plants and lighting form the entrance to Ben- Gurion University campus in Be’er Sheba, Israel, designed by Israeli firm Chyutin Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: here’s a movie filmed inside the Toyo Ito-designed Sendai Mediatheque during last Friday’s earthquake in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Neues Museum in Berlin by architect David Chipperfield has won the 2011 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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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

Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival: industrial designer Jake Dyson presented an LED task light with a heat-pipe cooling system at designjunction last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has confirmed that he has submitted designs for projects in China and India as difficult economic conditions in the US have led to a decline in development - Bloomberg (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article