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For Vienna Design Week Swiss designer Nicolas Le Moigne presents a series of rings that incorporate mirrors, manipulating the diamond’s image. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This boutique in Antwerp by Van Halewyck & Marco Architects features glossy white surfaces in a raw concrete shell. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Behar has designed the inaugural product from new Danish mobile phone brand Æsir. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Japanese designers Nendo present this tubular steel chair made with techniques traditionally used for bamboo furniture in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this game of chess created by designer Florian Hauswirth of Switzerland, pieces that are taken can be stacked to create new pieces with combined abilities. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Swedish textile designer Fanny Aronsen has died from cancer aged 55. More details to follow. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York architects Work AC have won a competition to design a cultural hub on a St Petersburg island that has been closed to the public for over 300 years. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Wrinkly mirrored walls distort the reflection of an apartment interior in Berlin by local architects Lecarolimited. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swirling clouds of drumsticks cover the ceiling of a Los Angeles noodle restaurant by Japanese architects SWeeT. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the ceremony for next year’s Pritzker Prize for architecture will take place in Beijing, the first time the ceremony has ever been held in China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the opening of the September 11 museum in New York, which is scheduled for September 2012, is under threat due to an ongoing dispute over unexpected costs – The Washington Post The museum is part of a memorial to the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre being developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who say that they are owed $156 million by mayor Michael Bloomberg’s National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation. The row had been kept quiet over fears it could overshadow the 10th anniversary of the attacks but has now led to the suspension of construction contracts which could delay the completion of th…

Triangular windows pierce the faceted walls that fold around a cafe in Hangzhou, China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The two-L-shaped halves of this house in Singapore by Chinese architects Neri&Hu fold around a courtyard garden and two pools of water. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Platform: in this movie Royal College of Art graduate Sarah Colson presents her Portrait Machine, an interactive tool that allows her to create layered portraits using a sheet of glass, acetate and a distortion lens. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Huge glowing baskets surround the staircases of this former slaughterhouse in Madrid that Spanish architects Churtichaga+Quadra-Salcedo have converted into a cinema. (more…) View the full article

A hole in this toothbrush directs water from the tap upwards like a drinking fountain for easy rinsing (+movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the first watch in our new summer collection at Dezeen Watch Store is the solar powered touch-screen MY04 Suntich designed by industrial designer Michael Young for ODM. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: “we’re advocating other UK architects to design on water,” architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British Pavilion. (more…) View the full article

A tower of books is encased inside a glass pyramid at this public library that Dutch firm MVRDV have completed in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: most festival helpers are kitted out with branded T-shirts but staff at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, wore geometric uniforms by Norwegian designer Damien Fredriksen Ravn, inspired by the event’s logo. (more…) View the full article

Architect and writer Sam Jacob takes the audience at Dezeen Live on a rapid-fire journey from a prehistoric standing stone to the Argos catalogue and USB cigarettes in this interview filmed at 100% Design during the London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio Shift has converted a suburban house in the south of the Netherlands and turned it into a dental surgery with a new zinc-clad wing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in a special Valentine's column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why designers have dumped dowdy green design in favour of glamorous robots. (more...) View the full article

Shimmering steel panels chequer the facade of this office building at an aluminium plant outside Buenos Aires by Argentinean architects Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden. (more...) View the full article

News: London firm Grimshaw has submitted plans for a 90-storey skyscraper in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. (more...) View the full article