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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

Milan 2011: artists Studio Job will present this cabinet with an enormous bronze key in Milan next week. (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

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of an extension to a youth hostel on a Portuguese mountainside by ComA Architects. (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 office in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by Fei Wang of Atelier Ten, features a staircase that narrows from four metres wide at its foot to two metes at the top. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This boutique in Seoul was designed by Korean firm Betwin Space Design to showcase crocodile-skin handbags. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: The New York Times is set to name its art critic and columnist Michael Kimmelman as its new architecture critic, following the departure last month of Nicolai Ouroussoff – Chicago Tribune. </img></img> </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

New York architects Axis Mundi have designed a retrofit façade for an office building in Barcelona that replicates rippled water. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin: new products in Polish designer Oskar Zieta’s line of pressure-inflated metal pieces were on show at DMY Berlin last week. (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

Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here’s an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Steven Holl Architects of New York have won a competition to design a major urban quarter on a former industrial site beside a lake at Hangzhou, China. (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

We’ve teamed up with Organisation in Design to give away a 25 sq m exhibition space in the heart of the new Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan during the Salone del Mobile next month. (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

Dezeenwire: the Museum of Modern Art in New York has taken the @ symbol into its collection - MoMA </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

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

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

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

This restaurant interior wrapped in a curtain of mirrored fins by London architecture and interiors firm d-raw has opened at the Fenwick department store on London’s New Bond Street. (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