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Spanish firm Hoz Fontan Arquitectos have completed a new Faculty of Business Studies at Mondragon University in Oñati, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate ShiKai Tseng has decorated a range of vases by covering them in photo-sensitive solution then exposing them inside pinhole cameras. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial design graduate Florian Schmid made these stools by folding fabric that’s impregnated with cement then drenching it in water. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Neues Museum in Berlin by architect David Chipperfield has won the 2011 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Olivia Lee has created a sketch pad with grids based on the mathematical principle of the golden ratio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Béhar of Fuseproject has created eco-friendly packaging for footwear brand Puma that is half bag and half box. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Furniture-filled caves can be found inside a guesthouse in Modica, Sicily. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Spanish lighting brand Santa & Cole has launched a lawsuit accusing the state of Qatar of copying street lighting devised for Barcelona by Catalan designer Beth Galí in 1996. (more…) View the full article

Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have won a competition to design the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: French designer Matali Crasset presented a lighting collection with branching forms in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In our fourth and final movie made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad describes how he tailored the exhibition to the gallery space. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paterson Architects of Scotland have completed a timber-clad extension to a farm cottage on a hill in Aberdeenshire. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: we’re trying to help people who are stuck in Milan to get home. Follow Marcus on Twitter for updates: www.twitter.com/marcusfairs Please also tweet Marcus your experiences, tips and requests for help and we’ll do our best to assist. Safe travels everyone. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior designer at Tom Dixon's interior practice Design Research Studio, which created the hotel-inspired rooms at co-working space Atrium in London (pictured). Read more stories on Tom Dixon, or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs View the full article

British designer Thomas Heatherwick recently launched a chair shaped like a spinning top made of spun steel and copper. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are more photos of the just-completed UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Thomas Heatherwick. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Oscar Diaz will present a shopping bag made from canvas straps in Milan next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Dutch studio Rocha Tombal have completed a primary school in The Hague that winds around its site like a crocodile. (more…) View the full article

French designer Julian Carratero has used timber that was excavated from Eindhoven’s medieval city walls to make a catapult. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stained glass panels perforate the exterior wall of this church in Paris by ENIA Architects, creating rectangles of colour on the interior of the double-height nave. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize is to be broadcast on BBC 2 programme The Culture Show rather than Channel 4. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sportswear brand Nike have launched the new away kit for France’s national football team, based on the Breton stripe. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch graduate designer Sjoerd Jonkers has designed a collection of plastic vases inspired by archaeology and primitive objects, to be presented in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kaspar Hamacher’s burnt stools (above, left) was one of our most popular stories over the last month so here’s a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives all about wood. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article