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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

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

Milan 2010: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders exhibits a chair with a snarling face on its backrest at Moooi in Milan this week. (more…) </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

A seafront auditorium in southern Spain has concave walls that resemble the deflated cheeks of someone taking a deep breath (photographs by Julien Lanoo). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London industrial designers Priestmangoode propose hospital wards modelled on health spas and beds like those in first class airline cabins in a new manifesto for health service design, released today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed a monastery built into the side of a hill at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: to celebrate their 150th anniversary French brand Ligne Roset are offering a 25% discount on their classic Togo seating range by Michel Ducaroy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designers Normal have completed a Barcelona cocktail bar with tables made of drawers, a bar made of doors and a door made of cupboards. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Daniel Libeskind has been selected to design a peace centre on the site of the notorious former Maze prison in Northern Ireland, according to the BBC. (more…) View the full article

Here are some photos of a housing complex in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico, by Santiago studio Elemental, which has been announced as a category winner in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards.(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

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week furniture brand Vitra present a strap designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena to be wrapped around the body and used instead of a chair. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British artist Mark Merer has completed this pointy studio for himself and his wife in Somerset, UK. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up once again with London company Mr Jones Watches to give away two special edition Cyclops watches and two Always On My Mind watches, worth £130 each. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scottish artist Geoff Mann of Studio*Mrmann has created a movie where an argument between unseen characters is represented as ripples that distort objects across a dining table. Watch the movie » See all our movies » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Work is about to start on a pedestrian bridge between the historic centre of Alicante to the beach across a busy road, designed by Spanish achitects bgstudio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian firm GS Architects have completed this black cantilevered office building in Graz, Austria. (more…) </img></img> </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

Japanese architect Hiroyuki Miyabe of Speac Inc. has renovated this house covered in ivy by stripping it back to its structural elements. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This roof of this sea-facing holiday house in Perth jolts up and down to create four irregular gables. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lenka Křemenová and David Maštálka of Czech studio A1 Architects have completed the interior of a dental surgery in Prague where the walls are covered with illustrations of teeth, animals and plants. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Wall coverings have been peeled away to reveal a vaulted stone ceiling that’s several hundred years old inside this refurbished apartment in Tel Aviv. (more…) </img></img> </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