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Dezeen Screen: in this next movie from our series filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka explains how the firm charted the Libyan desert, having been asked how to best exploit it for tourism. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Australian T-shirt company Hello Fresco to give away six of their latest designs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ready yourself for civil unrest without cluttering your apartment: this coffee table incorporates a handy riot shield. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has completed a pool-side home near Valencia comprising a squat white cylinder with terraces set into deep voids in its walls (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Paris 2012: Brussels designer Alain Berteau presents a series of oak products including this simple iPad dock at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2012: Londoner Benjamin Hubert has designed a fruit bowl for Swedish brand David Design with concentric circles milled out of a slice of oak, cut deeper as they approach the centre to form a stepped dish. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: a renovated 1960′s residence that the Royal Institute of British Architects named best new house in the UK last year is today’s instalment in our showcase of projects designed in the London borough of Hackney. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo wanted their bathroom collection for Italian brand Bisazza Bagno to look as though the whole room has just been unpacked from the crate-like bath. (more…) View the full article

Architects Colboc Franzen & Associés have masked the facade and balconies of three apartment blocks in the south of France behind curved galvanised-steel grids. (more…) View the full article

Algae would produce energy and clean water for a conceptual skyscraper proposed for London by British architect Dave Edwards. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and designer Dominic Wilcox have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new book that features over one hundred drawings of his “odd yet strangely logical” inventions (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This week’s job of the week is a position as an architectural model maker at Stanton Williams. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design. (more…) View the full article

Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: London designer Asif Khan used Swarovski crystals to recreate an ice halo – an atmospheric effect most often seen in freezing northern climates – in this installation in the sub-tropical heat of Miami (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These collapsible chairs by American design studio Pilot///Wave hang on the wall in an undulating line when they're not in use. (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Berlin designers Osko+Deichmann exhibited the latest development in their line of kinked tubular steel chairs at Stockholm Furniture Fair. (more...) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with Pritzker-winner Toyo Ito - whose Dome in Odate (above) features in our slideshow of his key projects - along with Hella Jongerius for KLM, Coop Himmelb(l)au in China and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 144 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Milan 2013: Robert Bronwasser of Amsterdam design studio Smool presented a television set wrapped in fabric at Ventura Lambrate in Milan earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Another Apartment has completed a house with an asymmetric roof on a narrow site in suburban Tokyo. (more...) View the full article

Danish architecture firm BIG has designed a 58-storey skyscraper for telecommunications company Telus in downtown Calgary, Canada. (more...) View the full article

Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has updated her Maia collection of outdoor furniture for Kettal by replacing the seat with nautical rope and the legs with teak wood. (more…) View the full article

Product news: this wooden sideboard by Mexican designer Hector Esrawe is intended to reference the way raw materials are stored in piles. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: a basketball hoop that catches the ball, an elderly broom and a bucket that's meant for kicking feature in an exhibition of new work by British designer Carl Clerkin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Beijing studio Atelier TeamMinus has completed a visitor centre for an ancient Buddhist memorial in Tibet, which features stone walls, a central courtyard and 11 rooftop observation decks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The new Museum Luthers Sterbehaus by Stuttgart architects Von M is a grey-brick extension to the house where Martin Luther died - but it turns out the Christian reformer "actually died in another building around the corner" (+ slideshow + photos by Zooey Braun). (more...) View the full article