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Dezeen promotion: textile brand Camira has unveiled a report of key colours, fabrics and moods expected to influence commercial interiors for the next two years. Read more View the full article

The final talk for Virtual Design Festival's partnership with CAMP sees Brooklyn and Detroit-based architecture studio Interboro share its views on public space interventions and urban planning. Read more View the full article

If you’ve always wanted to be photographed wearing a chocolate moustache, come along to the party Dezeen is co-hosting with Red, the association of Spanish design companies, in Berlin on Friday. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Towering bamboo poles encase this cylindrical wooden theatre in France, which opened in a fanfare last week, despite suffering vandalism just a few days before (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: Vienna Design Week opens tomorrow and local designer Thomas Feichtner will present his chair with a seat suspended at the centre of a cubic oak frame. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A concert hall and conference centre by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson is under construction in Reykjavík, Iceland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: German architect Selcuk Ünyilmaz has prepared designs for a £2.2 million mosque near Hamburg with wind turbines in its minarets – Guardian </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook's director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. Read more View the full article

US President Donald Trump's first budget plan includes a sizeable downpayment on his promised wall along the country's southern border with Mexico. Read more View the full article

A row has broken out over architect Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School following its collapse earlier this week, with a community leader in Lagos claiming pupils were evacuated three months ago over safety concerns and architecture critics questioning its credentials. (more…) View the full article

Madrid studios Mi5 Arquitectos and PKMN Architectures have built a half-submerged culture and leisure centre in the middle of a public square in Teruel, Spain (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British architect Adam Knibb has added this cross-laminated timber extension to a house in the English county of Hampshire, and connected it to the former barn building by a frameless glass box. Read more View the full article

PRTZN Architecture has used upholstered foam blocks to transform a tiny room in a Hungarian church into a children's playroom. Read more View the full article

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is bringing rare natural matter, including a burning sun and a sprightly puffin, into people's homes with his AR Wunderkammer works. Read more View the full article

Lance is a range of tubular wall lights, designed to highlight the details and textures of a building's surface, which Meteor Lighting is launching at the VDF products fair. Read more View the full article

Porsche has unveiled its first all-electric sports car at the Frankfurt Motor Show, becoming the latest brand to incorporate rechargeable battery technology into its vehicles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our penultimate movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, New York designer Stephen Burks discusses the importance of having a design identity and journalist Henrietta Thompson explains why designers are starting to expand into retail. (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: Tom Dixon has used gold-hued brass to create the Mass Dining Table, which resembles "a monumental and heavyweight sculpture". Read more View the full article

In the fourth part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, artist and designer Sarah Illenberger discusses how she makes illustrations from everyday objects. Read more View the full article

A electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris architects Béal & Blanckaert have completed a Corten-clad library in the grounds of a monastery in northern France (photography by Julien Lanoo). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Dezeen Wire: a team of engineers based in California have created a material made from a lattice of hollow metallic tubes that they claim is the lightest in the world – BBC The substance is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and consists of 99.99% air. Tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair are used to create the lattice structure that gives the material it’s strength. Potential applications include shock and sound absorption and thermal insulation. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: pioneering multidisciplinary design consultancy Airside has announced that it is to close in March 2012, stating: “we can’t see a way for Airside to move forward and accommodate all of our individual ambitions.” (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To mark World Oceans Day, VDF collaborates with environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans to host a live Screentime conversation with its founder Cyrill Gutsch. Watch the broadcast from 6pm UK time. Read more View the full article