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Architect Rafael Viñoly has sent Dezeen a public letter apologising for comments he made about the interior design of his supertall New York skyscraper. (more…) View the full article

Five interior design students from Regent's University London present proposals for the overhaul of a once-vacant Woolworths department store in Margate, UK, in this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

The Design Museum, Dutch Design Week, Design Indaba, Ventura Projects and The World Around are among cultural partners who will be contributing to Virtual Design Festival, which launches on 15 April. Read more View the full article

An assortment of windows are randomly scattered across the timber facade of this budget hotel outside Le Mans, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our special issue of Dezeen Mail for the London Design Festival includes our free map of all the events taking place around the city, which has already been viewed by 35,000 people, plus details of the installations we commissioned in Seven Dials, the Dezeen Live series of talks at 100% Design and all of our pop-up shops this week. Read the Dezeen Mail special | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: architect David Chipperfield has installed two metallic glass pavilions outside the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of the London Design Festival (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A medical illustrator behind the first 3D images of the coronavirus particle has spoken to Dezeen about how his team branded an invisible disease that "needed an identity". Read more View the full article

Opinion: in the second of two columns exploring the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob looks at how Google Maps is reshaping cities while Apple, Facebook and Amazon are reshaping the natural landscape by building their own headquarters as self-contained ecosystems. (more...) View the full article

Designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver included a map of flight paths over Heathrow and a stuffed deer in the shared facilities at this student housing development in Shoreditch, east London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These new images by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan offer a look at the MAD-designed Harbin Opera House in China after heavy snowfall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A wave of timber undulates around the eaves of a waterside restaurant in Oslo by Danish architects MAPT. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Each of the 304 ribs of bamboo that make up this Buddhist temple represent a victim killed when a ferry sank off the coast of South Korea (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As part of today's collaboration with CAMP, VDF is showing this lecture where Danish architecture studio COBE explains how it helped make Copenhagen one of the most liveable cities in the world. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: first up in our new Dezeen Watch Store collection for 2012 is Proton, a watch with a rigid bangle strap by Hong Kong brand Ziiiro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This extension to a north London home comprises three shed-like blocks clad in unfinished larch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed a steel flat-pack chair, called Cross Chair Tube, for Danish furniture brand Takt. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Mutewatch, a new touch-screen watch with silent alarm, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Christmas shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid has rejected claims that her architecture is self-indulgent and wilful, believing that she is "widely misunderstood" by the mainstream. (more…) View the full article

Colombian practice A5 Arquitectura ran steel balconies and staircases up the front of The Somos hotel so visitors can enjoy the year-round good weather in Medellín. Read more View the full article

German designer Pia Maria Raeder has combined thousands of beech rods to create spiny furniture that resembles sea anemones. Read more View the full article

Los Angeles studio Dan Brunn Architecture has designed this Las Vegas boutique with clothes hanging on blackened-steel frames and shoes displayed on glass shelves that light up. Read more

VDF products fair: Swiss brand Geberit has designed an automatic odour extraction unit for bathrooms called DuoFresh, which is designed to be concealed behind a toilet's flush plate. Read more View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with designers Beta Tank to give away five signed copies of their new book Taxing Art. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio Specht Architects has designed this Dallas residence with long corrugated concrete volumes to reference brutalist architecture. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Rowan Moore on what’s wrong with British architecture - Observer </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article