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If the year 2012 does bring the world to an end, Mexican branding company Menosunocerouno plan to face the apocalypse in style with a survival kit that includes chocolate and hard liqueur. (more…) View the full article

French architects ECDM have completed a nursery in Paris with rippling concrete walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A suspended net provides a hammock over the staircase of this apartment in Porto by architects OODA. (more…) View the full article

The lastest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with the Russian Pavilion lined with QR codes (above) from the Venice Architecture Biennale, plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 116 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Competition: we’re giving readers a chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to the Memory Marathon, a series of talks and discussions taking place from 12 to 14 October close to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (above) in London’s Kensington Gardens. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in our final movie from the World Architecture Festival we take another look at the World Building of the Year, Gardens by the Bay, as Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ Paul Baker explains how the design team used vertical planting to create “some real drama in a very flat landscape.” (more…) View the full article

News: architect Norman Foster has paid tribute to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who passed away yesterday aged 104. (more…) View the full article

News: the Design Museum in London has announced the projects nominated for the Designs of the Year 2013, including the Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick, The Shard by Renzo Piano (above) and the Little Printer by BERG. (more...) View the full article

News: Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has been named as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which will be a cloud-like structure made from a lattice of steel poles. (more...) View the full article

Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed the Dalian International Conference Center, a contorted steel building in China with conference halls bursting through its facade. (more...) View the full article

With a terrace sheltered beneath its overhanging eaves, this building by Japanese architects Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima functions as an information centre for prefabricated show homes in Yokohama (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An 18-metre-long window offers panoramic views across Tokyo Bay from the living room of this house in Yokosuka by Japanese studio Tomoyuki Sakakida Architect and Associates (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York City's skyscraper clusters and strict street grid are illustrated in these images taken from a helicopter by French-American photographer Vincent Laforet (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh has developed a simple wooden coat rack that leans up against a wall or corner. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a California-licensed senior architect at OMA, whose design for a trio of towers beside the bay in Miami's Coconut Grove is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Brazilian studios MMBB and H+F Arquitetos reference tower blocks from the 1960s with this social housing complex flanking the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge in São Paulo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board features highlights from this year's London Design Festival, including an installation of spinning paper windmills and the "world's lightest" wooden table. See our new London Design Festival 2013 Pinterest board » See more London Design Festival 2013 coverage » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

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Dezeen promotion: designer Raffaello Galiotto has created patterned marble disks that blur into new shapes when spun fast enough for Italian brand Lithos Design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Floatation devices, signalling flags and weapons are all incorporated into this apocalypse survival coat by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Marie-Elsa Batteux Flahault. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Danish design brand Menu has started producing this two-legged side table that rests against the wall by Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The 77 individuals who lost their lives during the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway will be commemorated by this competition-winning intervention by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg to sever a strip of headland from the coastline near Oslo. (more...) View the full article

News: architects Frank Gehry and Foster + Partners have today presented designs for a neighbourhood of 1300 homes, for the third phase in the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in south London. (more...) View the full article

Following the popularity of a collection of mass-produced glass items reformed into sculptural vessels this week, we've collected together glassware projects from the pages of Dezeen, including a curvaceous wine bottle by Zaha Hadid and pill-like vases by Fabio Novembre. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our glassware stories View the full article

News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has said he intends to work on fewer projects and may reduce the size of his office following his acceptance of the Pritzker Prize, which he says he did not expect to win. (more...) View the full article