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Theodora Alfredsdottir speaks to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 2:15pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Chinese architects MAD have sent us new images of a remote museum they completed earlier this year in the Gobi desert. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: architects in the UK are being "cut to the bone" by bureaucracy says architect Steve Tompkins, whose firm won the RIBA Stirling Prize last night for the Liverpool Everyman Theatre (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Stanley Saitowitz's firm Natoma Architects has created a Hillel House for Philadelphia's Drexel University, with a red brick facade designed to reference the branched lampstands used in Jewish homes and temples, as well as the striated garments worn during prayer. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotions: Japanese brand INAX has "reimagined the bathroom experience" with two collections, which will be unveiled at Milan design week 2019. Read more

Milan 2016: this was a bumper year for the Salone del Mobile, with a record-breaking number of visitors. Dezeen editor Anna Winston rounds up some of the best product launches from the furniture fair, including new work by Jasper Morrison and Claesson Koivisto Rune, the standout piece from Patricia Urquiola's Cassina revamp, and a minimalist Japanese kitchen for small homes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Temporium: this beaded and embellished jewellery collection from London-based designer Fiona Paxton is the festive treat hidden behind day 18 of our Advent calendar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York's Museum of Modern Art announced today that it has added the Rainbow Flag, the universal symbol of gay pride, to its permanent design collection. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

This time last year Foster + Partners completed a solar-powered urban development in Abu Dhabi and unveiled plans for a museum in the same city with wing-shaped towers designed to act as thermal chimneys. Dezeen compiled an extensive report for kitchen appliances brand Scholtès that explored the relationship between food and design, Yves Béhar of Fuseproject sent us early sketches of his Jambox speaker and we rounded up all of our stories on education buildings. Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal for a theatre in Morocco was described by one reader as looking like “a giant mobile phone or maybe a vacuum cleaner,” and architect Álvaro Leite Siza designed a home for himsel…

Design graduate Tanya Shukstelinsky has proposed a new type of affordable urban housing, with people living between two sheets of suspended fabric (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In this exclusive movie premiere screened as part of VDF's collaboration with MAAT, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO-IL explain 12 temporary architecture projects that feature in an exhibition at the Lisbon museum. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen: London's Royal College of Art hit the headlines this week following the suspension of its world-famous Design Interactions course and supermodel Kate Moss (pictured right) announced her foray into interior design. (more…) View the full article

A wastewater system called SuperTube designed specifically for high-rise buildings is one of three new products that Geberit is showcasing at the VDF products fair. Read more View the full article

This year's Art Basel and the Design Miami/Basel collectors fair, which were postponed from June to September, have now been cancelled altogether due to coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some new images of the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi by Zaha Hadid Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2014: Swedish collective Note Design Studio has designed glass lamps mounted on wooden frames that resemble mind-bending illustrations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The "hellish and beautiful" architecture of Wes Anderson's new film Isle of Dogs takes its cues from the work of Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, says production designer Paul Harrod. Read more 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 Wire: David Chipperfield is to curate the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, becoming the first British architect to take on the role - The Guardian The official announcement has been delayed because of Chipperfield’s reservations over working with Giulio Malgara, who was expected to become the director of the biennale and is a friend of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Following Berlusconi’s decision to stand down it is expected that current director Paolo Baratta will retain the role as biennale director. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In the second talk as part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, architect Richard Rogers discusses his reluctance to enter the Centre Pompidou competition and liking the Lloyd's building. Read more View the full article

Product news: this stocky, robust-looking chair by Polish designer Tomek Rygalik is called Dumbo after Disney's cartoon baby elephant. (more...) View the full article

Metal curtains can be drawn across the windows of this three-and-a-half-metre-wide house in Osaka by FujiwaraMuro Architects, which features a split-level layout with multiple staircases. Read more View the full article

With only 15 days left to enter Dezeen Awards here are 15 reasons why you should enter your project now. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, Dezeen has partnered with Danish design brand Muuto to offer readers the chance to win a Cover Side Chair, designed by Thomas Bentzen. Read more View the full article

The Open House programme, which gives the public a chance to see buildings and sites that are usually off limits, comes to New York this weekend. Here's 10 places we recommend to explore over the next two days. Read more View the full article