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Dezeenwire: the lineup of readers at Once Upon a Dream: London Tastemakers in Bed with Veuve Clicquot this week has been announced. See schedule below. More about Once Upon a Dream: London Tastemakers in Bed with Veuve Clicquot » All our stories about London Design Festival 2010 » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Positioned at the base of a dormant volcano on Japan's Hokkaido Island, this simple gabled holiday home by Florian Busch Architects is perfectly positioned for skiers. Read more View the full article

There are just three weeks left to enter the Dezeen x Samsung Out of the Box Competition to design household objects made from repurposed cardboard packaging. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Dutch design organisation Premsela to offer readers a chance to win one of five copies of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Nagoya by Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata has five roofs that pitch in opposing directions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The joints of this handcrafted task light by Israeli industrial designer Asaf Weinbroom comprise strips of walnut veneer clamped round the oak base and head. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Toronto firm StudioAC has gutted a Victorian property in the city to reconfigure the layout and create more spaces for entertaining. Read more View the full article

Our last Dezeen Mail this year leads with the recently opened Stonehenge Visitor Centre and also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 183 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Mexico City firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has stepped and staggered a series of buildings and terraces to form the sprawling Solaz resort in Los Cabos. Read more

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with online design store Triitme! to offer readers the chance to win one of three €100 vouchers to spend on their site. (more...) View the full article

Circular Union is launching Mush-Hues, a range of mushroom-based wood and fabric dyes, for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

A section of tarmac appears to have been peeled back from the surface of a car park at London's Southbank Centre, suspending a car upside down in artist Alex Chinneck's latest illusionary installation (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Zaha Hadid has denied her design for the London 2012 Aquatics Centre is to blame for the 600 tickets sold to Olympic spectators unaware they’ll have a restricted view of the top diving events. (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

London architects Buckley Gray Yeoman have converted a fire-damaged former market hall in Shoreditch into Corten-clad university offices. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing architects Studio SKLIM created built-in platforms, seating and storage for this renovation of an office in a post-war building on the outskirts of Singapore. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio, Guardian critic Justin McGuirk gives us his take on the future of design criticism, as fast reactions on platforms like Twitter and Facebook are balanced by long-form analysis in e-books and online journals. He goes on to discuss how the fetishisation of traditional crafts by mass-producers is pushing design in a new direction and agrees with previous guest journalist Joseph Grima that the arrival of hacking culture and open-source production is the big story in Milan this year, describing it as the antithesis to the luxury design industry that the city normally centres around. (more…) View the full art…

Royal College of Art student Dan Watson has designed a trawling net that filters young and endangered fish from the catch. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Not Tom have created an installation where coloured dye rises by capillary action out of paint tins and along tree branches wrapped in wool. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A+Awards: Belgian design office Five AM overhauled a tiny caravan to create this studio on wheels, which is next up in our showcase of this year's Architizer A+Awards winners. Read more View the full article

Cologne 2012: Dutch designer Bertjan Pot showed this chair made of a tennis net at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critics are having their say on plans unveiled yesterday by Foster + Partners and engineers Halcrow for a new transportation hub in the Thames estuary (see our story on Dezeen). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A current show at New York's Center for Architecture reveals how several sub-Saharan African countries used modernist architecture to assert their identities, following a break from colonial rule in the 20th century. Read more View the full article

Dezeen speaks to designers including Irina and Olga Sundukovy and Natali Canas del Pozo about the future of wellbeing in this talk hosted by ceramics brand Villeroy & Boch. Watch it live from Barcelona at 7:30pm Spanish time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK broadcaster Channel 4 reports that a backlash is forming against the prevalence of unpaid internships in Britain, which are particularly popular with graduates in the creative industries. A number of websites have been set up by graduates and campaigners offering advice to those partaking in internships and rallying support for campaigns that call on the government to introduce tighter regulations - Channel 4 News </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article