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Designers and artists including Paul Smith, Quentin Blake, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen and Tracey Emin have customised classic Ant chairs by Arne Jacobsen, which will be auctioned in order to raise money for Jamie Oliver’s Better Food Foundation. (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Swedish studio Front has designed a collection of glassware with frosted bottoms for Danish brand Stelton. (more...) View the full article

Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Dutch architect Martin Vermeulen of YouTube channel One Minute Architecture to present a selection of his best short architecture movies. 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

British architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith have completed the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A shot of a brick reservoir in London's Finsbury Park has been selected as the best architecture photograph of the year at the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2016. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Designjunction has announced the exhibitor line-up for its next show in a former postal sorting office in central London during the London Design Festival this September. (more…) View the full article

Vacation pods in a climate change-stricken New York and a money-laundering bank for the Japanese government are among the concepts presented here by Carleton University's MArch students in this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes Li Edelkoort's predictions for life post-coronavirus, Hyundai's all-black electric car and Dezeen's new Face to Face podcast series. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Japanese firm Mount Fuji Architects Studio have squeezed a narrow gate house between two existing Tokyo residences, leading to a main house on the L-shaped site behind. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm OMA and landscape studio Olin have released updated visuals for 11th Street Bridge Park – a raised garden that will extend over Washington DC's Anacostia River. Read more View the full article

Milan 2015: Danish studio Norm Architects has created a collection of bathroom furnishings and accessories, including a matching wash basin and bathtub perched on slim metal legs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: surgically implanted chips that feed digital information directly into the brain will supersede wearable technology, according to the co-founder of a leading 3D imaging studio. (more...) View the full article

SelgasCano, 6a Architects and David Kohn Architects are among the eight architecture studios creating buildings for a purpose-built design district at the heart of the new Greenwich Peninsula development in London. Read more View the full article

London studio 6a Architects has renovated a seaside house in Devon, England, transforming its old dark rooms into bright, tactile living spaces. Read more

Dezeen Screen: London interior designer Linda Morey Smith is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about designing the headquarters for Sony Music in London. Watch the movie » Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio Network of Architecture has built a timber cafe and changing room alongside the scenic Völser Weiher lake in South Tyrol, Italy. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve got a special white and gold Christmas edition of the Iconograph watch by Werner Aisslinger at the online Dezeen Watch Store and you can try one in person at our Christmas shop The Temporium in London. More » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week sports brand Nike launched a range of knitted running shoes, car brand Mini unveiled a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman and RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi put his award-winning folding plug graduation project into production. A website called Arch Leaks was launched to revel the secrets of architecture firms and some users immediately set about creating and rating fake practices, while open-source designs for spectacle frames cut from 18mm plywood stirred up an amusing debate among our readers. ”We are currently working on the next iteration of WikiGlasses – a range of 18mm ply open-source contact lenses,” comments the designer. Meanwhile construction began…

Steps built into the kitchen counter lead up to a suspended staircase in this Melbourne house by Australian architects Edwards Moore. (more…) View the full article

This week architecture news has been dominated by the call for Denise Scott Brown to be recognised as Pritzker Prize laureate alongside her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, who won in 1991. Scroll on for a recap of the last seven days in design. (more...) View the full article

David Adjaye has designed an exhibition of ceramicist Magdalene Odundo's work at the Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich. Read more

News: French architect Marc Mimram has been selected to create a new train station in Montpellier – a building that will bridge over the railway line and feature an intricate pleated roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lund University graduate Anna Gudmundsdottir created this homeware collection "backwards" by starting with the manufacturers' input rather than the design. Read 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