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A long strip of glazing runs along the front of this cantilevered Spanish house by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes, giving the two siblings who inhabit it views of a mountain range near Barcelona (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created an aerosol spray that lets users enjoy alcohol without getting drunk or hungover. (more…) View the full article

A Kickstarter campaign is raising money to rerelease a set of influential manuals that offer precise guides to designing for human comfort. Read more View the full article

Sea Stone is a concrete-like material made from seashells that Newtab-22 is introducing during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

The founders of Japanese creative studio Spread reveal how they use colour as the primary medium in their work and explain how their Life Stripe project seeks to find pattern in the everyday in this interview as part of our VDF x Alcova collaboration. Read more View the full article

Architect Filipe Balestra of Urban Nouveau has sent us his proposal for a series of towers built in the swamps surrounding Mumbai, sketched out on a napkin. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we launched a Virtual Design Festival featuring a live video interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from architects and designers from across the world. Read more View the full article

In light of plans to bring the neoclassical Penn Station and Frank Lloyd Wright's lost pavilions back to life, Aaron Betsky argues that architects should focus on renovating existing buildings rather than replacing new with old, in this Opinion column. Read more View the full article

British designer Faye Toogood is displaying her Assemblage 5 collection at New York gallery Friedman Benda for her first solo exhibition in the United States. Read more View the full article

Products database Architonic has acquired architecture news website ArchDaily in a deal thought to be worth around €10 million. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: this chair made from polyurethane film is part of a collection of transparent furniture by Japanese designers Nendo, on show in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with GRAFT, Gus Wüstemann and Antonio Citterio, pictured. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Mecanoo Architecten, Adjaye Associates, Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group and more... (more...) View the full article

Experimental clothing brand Vollebak has created a near-indestructible jacket from Dyneema – a fibre that is 15 times stronger than steel. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Quentin Blake, the man responsible for illustrating many of author Roald Dahl‘s famous novels, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Prince Philip Designers Prize. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF has teamed up with Terreform One to bring together authors Mitch Joachim, Julia Watson, Eran Chen and Paul Miller in a live discussion about sustainable design in a post-coronavirus world. Read more View the full article

Creative agency Framlab has proposed building modular vertical farms in Brooklyn to provide low-income neighbourhoods with access to fresh produce. Read more View the full article

These mirrored benches by Japanese firm Mount Fuji Architects Studio sit beneath cherry trees at the Towada Art Centre in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium 2011: our Christmas shop The Temporium is now open! In the first of our Advent calendar stories, we’re giving away a Flying Santa card by London design consultancy Studio91 with the first 50 purchases made at the shop. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ahead of Monday's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and reSITE , the Prague urbanism conference has shared a video of a lecture by Michael Sorkin, in which the late architect and critic quashes the lure of glamorised future city proposals. Read more View the full article

Designed in Hackney: furniture company SCP has been working with some of the best designers in the industry at its Shoreditch headquarters since the mid 1980s. Every day this week our Designed in Hackney series focusses on key products that were developed above the shop on Curtain Road, starting with the 1986 Side Table by Jasper Morrison. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie that we filmed at Qubique 2011, Philipp Mainzer, founder of German furniture brand E15, talks about the furniture and accessories the company showed during the Berlin design fair. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing architect Naihan Li presented crates that unfold to become a collection of furniture at a pop-up disco lounge for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next interview filmed at Dezeen Space, designers LingJing Yin, Mark McKeague and Ting Chung Jessica Cheng demonstrate how they created a soundscape at Dezeen Platform by channeling the electrical charge in people’s bodies, then amplified the sound by asking visitors to link up. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Daniel Svahn's chairs for a town hall in Stockholm are made from upcycled unwanted tabletops that were destined for the dump. Read more View the full article