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ZMY Design has transformed a cement factory in southeast China into a tranquil home, dotting its cavernous living spaces with a minimal amount of furnishings. Read more View the full article

London’s Design Museum have unveiled designs by British architect John Pawson for their new home in the former Commonwealth Institute building in west London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week seven of Virtual Design Festival features a special collaboration with designer Tom Dixon and talks with architects including Frida Escobedo and Junya Ishigami. We also premiere a new film by Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, in which architect Eva Jiřičná discusses some of Zaha Hadid's most iconic buildings. Read more View the full article

We’ve just sent the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In the first of three posts about the Digital Crystal exhibition at London’s Design Museum, we look at a mechanical projector built by London design studio Troika which uses Swarovski crystal lenses and LEDs to create portraits on the gallery wall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Get up to 40% off LunaTik watch kits, designed to convert your iPod Nano into a multi-touch timepiece, in the Dezeen Watch Store’s summer sale. This limited edition camouflage TakTik model is now only £54 (UK and EU) or £43.20 (rest of the world). Buy now » 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

Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Read more View the full article

Spanish practice Tuñón Arquitectos has added a white concrete extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear in Cáceres, Spain. Read more View the full article

Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester has produced her first homeware and lighting collection, which launched at Maison&Object furniture fair in Paris this week. Read more

This time last year work began on the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Glasgow by OMA, which opened last month. Industrial designer Bill Moggridge received the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize and a pitched-roof extension to a mill-keeper’s cottage in Norfolk won the RIBA Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house in the UK. Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe completed the high-tech refurbishment of a concert hall in Eindhoven and our readers loved a school extension in Spain with a chalkboard wall. Meanwhile, Belgian designers Quinze & Milan created a deconstructed chair with layers of fabric wedged into a wooden frame, Studio Swine built a mobile stall …

The Temporium 2011: Hamburg designer Alexa Lixfeld is presenting a range of handmade products at The Temporium including handwoven dolls based on drawings made by school children in Sri Lanka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it here live from 3:30pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: last week, Dezeen attended an architectural tour of Basel and Zurich organised by Swiss bathroom brand Laufen that included a trip to their concrete showroom designed by Nissen Wentzlaff Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week, Dezeen reported from Sweden on the best installations, product launches and events at Stockholm Design Week 2020. Read more View the full article

Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by climate change, which includes building floating villages connected by ferries, a red-hued cycle route, and a highway for autonomous vehicles. Read more View the full article

Business news: Joe Gebbia, who co-founded home rental website Airbnb, has become a part-time design partner at American tech startup incubator Y Combinator. (more…) View the full article

Studio Seilern Architects has built two restaurants at the top of Mount Gütsch – The Gütsch by Markus Neff and The Japanese by The Chedi Andermatt – at the Andermatt ski resort in Switzerland. Read more View the full article

Photographer Montse Zamorano has sent us his photographs of Álvaro Siza’s recently-completed auditorium for the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview taken from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Nick Barratt-Boyes of Studio Pacific and Ralph Roberts of Warren & Mahoney about their design for a new terminal at Wellington International Airport, where copper-clad structures connect three exisiting buildings. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Today's VDF takeover comes courtesy of New York design magazine Sight Unseen, which is presenting new work from 51 designers featured in its Offsite Online event via a digital programme of exhibitions and shows for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Opinion: by excluding architects and focusing on research for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has given the world an insight into what he thinks about architecture. The result is less than encouraging, says Kieran Long. (more...) View the full article

California-based designer Jim Lenahan – best known for his concert sets for musicians like Tom Petty and Korn – has designed a chair for Pope Francis' visit to New York today. (more…) View the full article

Bicycles are displayed in backlit boxes at this Barcelona bike store designed by architect Joan Sandoval. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Burning Man fans can watch the action from this year's festival unfold without getting dusty, thanks to a live online broadcast of the event. Read more View the full article

Concrete block and fibre-cement boards were among the materials used by American firm In Situ Studio to create this hillside home for a retired couple living in North Carolina. Read more