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Dezeen promotion: Fentress Architects is inviting entries to its annual Fentress Global Challenge – a competition that tasks students with designing an airport terminal for the year 2100. Read more View the full article

Design studio Stu.dere looked into traditional washing methods to create the interior of this laundrette in northern Portugal, which features marble and green-tile surfaces. Read more View the full article

Today marks 30 days to go until entries for Dezeen Awards 2020 close. Read on for more notable numbers relating to this year's programme. Read more View the full article

Architecture firms Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen have been shortlisted to design a presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in Medora, North Dakota. Read more View the full article

Italian designer Fabio Novembre will launch a chair for Casamania in Milan next month featuring a transparent polycarbonate seat supported on a cantilevered aluminium frame. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Natalie Zipfl has used pig blood and gelatine to develop a striking and sustainable material called Blood leather. Read more View the full article

London architects Tonkin Liu have completed a wind-powered metal flower beside the River Mersey in England. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has created a series of site specific installations in and around the Hayward Gallery in London, including this domed nylon structure. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Hans Hollein of Vienna has designed this high-rise office tower for Shenzhen, China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has completed the renovation of a former wine cellar in Bilbao to create a new culture and leisure centre for the city. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

English furniture company Another Country launched their inaugural collection at The Tramshed as part of the London Design Festival last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This clock that’s adjusted via a rubber belt was designed by Argentinian architect Daniel Weil of Pentagram as a gift for an architect. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group have designed a technology centre for Taipei, Taiwan, comprising a cube-shaped structure with round voids cut from its volume. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish firm Hoz Fontan Arquitectos have completed a new Faculty of Business Studies at Mondragon University in Oñati, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Eindhoven designers Formafantasma present this range of plastic vessels resulting from experiments with natural polymers at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: designer Ron Arad is to create an installation at London’s Roundhouse in August this year to host performances by designers and musicians including Hussein Chalayan and Javier Mariscal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Coloured cables encircle the cases of these computer mice by Japanese designers Nendo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: while Dezeen prepares for the 2011 London Design Festival, here’s a previously unseen interview we filmed with Spanish designer Jaime Hayón during last year’s festival. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Unfinished plywood and cement smeared over concrete give a renovated Tokyo apartment the appearance of an elegant building site. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s the next house in the series of eleven by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk says that a kitchen concept by Dutch electrical company Philips that uses decomposition to generate methane gas for cooking is an example of how we may “have to get more comfortable with bacteria and with putrefaction’s role in our ecosystem” – The Guardian McGuirk claims the Microbial kitchen concept‘s “steampunk” aesthetic offers “an alternative vision to the clinical kitchen,” and also mentions the trend for low-tech kitchen appliances, such as designer Christoph Thetard’s pedal-powered devices, which he says represent a reaction to the impending energy crisis. Last year Dezeen published a report on Food and Design, includi…

Zaha Hadid has become the latest in a string of architects to design a car park for Miami Beach. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These renders show the cedar shell and glazed facade of a triangular house by Swedish firm Wingårdh Arkitektontor to be constructed on a rocky, harbourside plot. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sports brand Nike have opened an east London store where shoppers can see themselves reflected on motion-sensitive LED walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article