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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

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Australian company Makedo to give away ten sets of their reusable connector system for creatively recycling waste materials. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of the show. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alasdhair Willis has resigned as chief executive of British design brand Established & Sons. See his letter below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tel Aviv's Studio Amit has opted for colourful details to add flair to this retirement housing development in Israel. Read more View the full article

Chinese product designer Sheng Yin collaborated with artist Kai Yi to create this entirely black series of wood and leather furniture. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: launching during this year's Milan design week, the Space & Interiors event will explore current trends in interior design from 12 to 16 April 2016. (more…) View the full article

Earlier this year, Dezeen teamed up with luxury kitchen appliances brand Scholtès to investigate a fascinating trend: the cross-pollination between the worlds of food and design. The main focus of our research was the Milan furniture fair in April, where we conducted video interviews with designers and chefs and filmed many of the food-related events taking place in the city. Jump to the report. Jump to the videos. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese studio Interval Architects have completed a pavilion that snakes around a school square in Beijing like the tracks of a roller coaster. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Get 40% off this watch by Japanese architects SANAA to look like a cat curled around the wrist in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale. Available in green, yellow or pink, the Neko watch is now only £45 (UK and EU) or £37.50 (rest of the world). Get yours here » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Opinion: design thinking is the management phrase that makes real designers shudder. Can designers let go and accept it as a form of flattery, or should they be worried about business strategists edging into their territory, asks Lucas Verweij. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Suppose Design Office has converted a seafront warehouse into a specialist cycling centre with a hotel that allows guests to check-in while still on their bikes (+ sideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architect Jane Duncan has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. (more...) View the full article

Artist Matthew Day Jackson has developed a Formica surface that subtly replicates the surface of the moon and used it to make furniture. Read more

Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us these images of a Milan church with a grey, striped exterior by Italian studio Cino Zucchi Architetti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Jo Nagasaka of Sschemata Architecture Office presented this series of wooden tables with fluorescent resin encasing their gouged-out tops at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This timber-clad house extension in Norway by Oslo studio Rever & Drage features curvy towers that point outwards like periscopes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Today VDF teams up with filmmaker Gary Hustwit, who is offering Dezeen readers a free screening of his feature-length documentary about Dieter Rams and sharing photos taken while filming the influential German designer ahead of a live interview at 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto's Bookchair slots in and out of its surrounding shelving to double as both storage and seating. Read more View the full article

BIG has completed a circular enclosure at a zoo in Denmark to house two giant pandas that have been relocated from Chengdu, China. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Iconograph watch by Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger is now available in four new colours at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A spiky kindergarten and a bulbous sports centre with rooftop funnels are included in this conceptual community by architecture students at Lund University, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bayalpata Hospital is a medical complex in Achham, Nepal, built from rammed earth by American architecture office Sharon Davis Design. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects StudioGreenBlue have completed a house in Kōnosu City, Saitama Prefecuture, Japan, with an interior featuring white perforated screens throughout the space. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the controversy surrounding the release of the official London 2012 posters last week, graphic designer Sarah Hyndman has come up with a set of alternatives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article