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Nettles taken from Prince Charles' Highgrove estate were transformed into a collection of garments by sustainable design duo Vin + Omi, for a London Fashion Week show. Read more

Three internal courtyards in a timber-clad bungalow designed by Osaka-based practice Arbol in Akashi, Japan, provide space for growing food and drying clothes. Read more

A steel-framed vertical garden cuts through the centre of this brick warehouse-style block in Oberhausen, Germany, topped by a translucent urban greenhouse for agricultural research with a zigzagging roofline. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed visuals for a multimodal Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia, which will form part of the Rail Baltica high-speed rail network. Read more View the full article

Snøhetta celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. In the first part of an exclusive interview with Dezeen, co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen explains that the firm's ultimate aim has always been to make buildings for the betterment of society. Read more View the full article

Canadian company Knectek Labs has automated an often messy and unhygienic part of household waste collection with the Townew bin, which seals and changes its own bags. Read more View the full article

Hanging plants, used books and a bar salvaged from New York are among the diverse elements incorporated into an eatery and bar in Texas conceived by architecture studio Clayton & Little and interior designer Mickie Spencer. Read more View the full article

Sunny yellow surfaces feature extensively throughout this duplex apartment in Barcelona, which has been refreshed by local studio Arquitectura-G. Read more View the full article

Wood salvaged from old miso barrels has been used to clad a house built by Tato Architects in Japan for the owner of a nearby brewery specialising in soy sauces. Read more View the full article

Architect Jaimie Shorten's will install six singing shark sculptures leaping from a London canal as this year's pavilion for the Architecture Foundation. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Awards winners and judges including Studio Drift, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Sevil Peach will take part in a live drop-in conversation from 1:00pm UK time as part of today's VDF x Dezeen Awards collaboration. Read more View the full article

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

Grimshaw has revealed the design for an arts complex on the Santa Monica College campus that will comprise three volumes linked by open-air plazas. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: Italian-Singaporean studio Lanzavecchia + Wai presented a collection of lights made of fabric stretched over steel wire frames in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Masato Sekiya has completed a house for a family in Osaka, Japan, with raw concrete finishes inside and out. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK architects Foster + Partners have completed the worlds tallest tensile structure in Astana, Kazakhstan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another espresso machine from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, this time by Israeli industrial design student Yaniv Berg. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with new London brand 1ina100 to give readers the chance to win one of three T-shirts from their inaugural collection of limited-edition designs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argetinian studio Adamo-Faiden have installed a fabric tensile structure across the roof of this renovated apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Italian brand Superego editions present a collection of ceramic vases resembling tree branches by Italian designer Andrea Branzi in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Archive: following our popular story on Musashino Art University Library by Sou Fujimoto Architects (top right) composed of timber bookshelves, we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archives about libraries. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Orbit, the latest design from Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors to this timber tea house sit beneath a woven rope dome with a gilded skylight and a hanging teapot in the middle. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects MVRDV of Rotterdam and COBE of Copenhagen and Berlin have won a competition to design a rock-music museum at a former concrete factory in Roskilde, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foster + Partners have won a competition to design a high-speed rail station for the city of Ourense in northwest Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article