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Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its proposal for a linear museum complex in Hangzhou that will sit beside China's Grand Canal and celebrate the history of the artificial river. Read more View the full article

Say Architects has completed a grooming salon for pets in Hangzhou, China, which includes a sunken cafe, playground and a paddling pool where four-legged visitors can dip their paws. Read more View the full article

CF Møller Architects has revealed photos of the Kajstaden Tall Timber Building, which has recently completed in the city of Västerås and is Sweden's tallest timber building. Read more View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon is releasing a series of furniture made from cork, that has been charred to give it a rich, deep brown colour reminiscent of rosewood. Read more View the full article

A chunky pink-plaster counter dominates the otherwise sparse interior of this cafe in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, which has been revamped by design studio Bone. Read more View the full article

Week two of Virtual Design Festival features an architecture photography festival, a celebration of Earth Day, interviews with SO-IL and Ron Arad and a live music performance by Beatie Wolfe. Here's what's coming up this week. Read more View the full article

The coronavirus crisis means we're spending more time indoors than ever before, so Dezeen's Natasha Levy has selected 10 films with stand-out interiors that can offer some escape from your own four walls. Read more View the full article

The grass of New York's Domino Park has been painted with white circles to encourage the public to stay safely apart during the pandemic. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Lace, bows, flowers and pearls feature in the Candelaria collection by Viennese fashion house Narbon, in a celebration of maximalist femininity. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: German magazine Form reports that industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has been appointed design consultant to German football club Bayern München – www.form.de Related: see all our stories about Konstantin Grcic in our special category. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Competition: once again Dezeen have teamed up with Design Association in Japan to give 10 designers and artists free exhibition space at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition during Tokyo Designers Week 2010 from 29 October to 3 November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn interviews humanitarian architect Nathaniel Corum, who designed the cabin of the Plastiki boat made of plastic bottles (see our earlier story) - New York Times </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Roger Arquer has designed this vase with a funnel protruding from the side so that the water to be changed without removing the flowers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pascal Grasso Architectures have inserted extruding and recessed volumes along the walls of corridors to create a showroom in Paris, France, for fashion sourcing company Stella K. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this short interview we conducted as part of our Food and Design report for luxury kitchen appliances brand Scholtès, French designer Philippe Starck talks about the dining room’s evolution and its effect on relationships. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Graphic artist Delphine Perrot has designed a logo to encourage people to donate money to help humanitarian relief in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month Japanese designer Yuya Ushida talks to Dezeen about the mechanical engineering behind his XXXX furniture range for Dutch brand Ahrend. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2011: here are some photos of an exhibition presenting work by London designer Benjamin Hubert at the Direktorenhaus in Berlin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects MX_SI have won a competition to design an extension to a Finnish museum of art with this proposal that features recessed zigzagging windows. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An unusual combination of limestone columns and concrete bands surrounds the exterior of a laboratory by UK architects Stanton Williams in the botanic gardens of Cambridge University. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen has selected 30 designers to showcase their talents at Dezeen Space, Dezeen’s month-long residency in Shoreditch during London Design Festival, London Fashion Week and Frieze Art Fair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Qubique 2011 design fair in Berlin last month, designer Jerszy Seymour talks about his series of chairs where components are joined with blobs of wax. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more photos of the prototype of Thomas Heatherwick‘s redesign of the iconic routemaster bus for London, unveiled last week as reported on Dezeen Wire. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Diners can climb into wooden booths modelled on railway carriages in the second Fabbrica pizzeria completed by Dutch design studio Tjep. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: this week’s first iconic project designed in the London borough of Hackney is Dirty House, a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch with a brightly illuminated roof completed by architect David Adjaye in 2002. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article