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Dezeen Wire: a pop-up shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, made from renovated shipping containers is being threatened with legal action by a British developer for copyright infringement - Stuff.co.nz The owners of Boxpark, a development in London that will be open over the Christmas period and claims to be “the world’s 1st pop-up mall,” have accused Christchurch’s City Mall of copying their container pop-up format but City Mall have responded by saying that the ideas do not look alike and that their project, which reopened on Saturday, was completed first. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View …

Dutch studio UNStudio has won a competition to create a road, tram, cycle and pedestrian crossing over the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a table that’s almost invisible at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto presented this table lamp, called Vader after the Star Wars character whose mask it resembles, at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ninety per cent of architects will lose their jobs as artificial intelligence takes over the design process, according to designer Sebastian Errazuriz. Read more View the full article

News: Apple was named best design studio and best brand of the past 50 years at a special ceremony marking the 50th birthday of D&AD this week and Apple’s entire design team, including senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive (above), flew to London to collect the awards. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect talks us through three of his practice BIG's current projects and explains why he considers diagrams to be such an important design tool. (more...) View the full article

Canadian studio Naturehumaine has extended a house in Montreal to create a family living area and an elevated master bedroom, which are all encased in a large grey frame that offers privacy from neighbours. Read more View the full article

Architect Peter Cook explains Archigram's concept for a temporary city that can be set up overnight in the third instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Read more View the full article

British cutlery company Viners has released a collection of kitchen knives with rounded tips in a bid to reduce knife-related incidents. Read more View the full article

A chair that is "perfect for hacking" and baskets made from faux hair braids are among the products created by African designers for an IKEA homeware range. Read more

London studio Haptic references eroded granite rock formations commonly found around the Norwegian coastline with the curving form of this layered timber staircase, created for an office interior in Oslo. (more...) View the full article

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort will speak to Dezeen live from Cape Town at 2:00pm UK time in our first Screentime conversation of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the interview here or on our YouTube channel. Read more View the full article

Chainmail curtains contrast with butterscotch-coloured walls in a hotel created by architecture studio Grzywinski+Pons in the shell of a 1970s office block in London. Read more View the full article

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has designed a light blue flag with a white footprint, to raise awareness about the importance of human rights. Read more

London designer Louisa Grey has curated a series of meditative spaces inside the Copenhagen store of Danish lifestyle brand Frama, for an installation inspired by the body's five senses. Read more

As Poland goes to the polls on Sunday, the churches that were built in the 1970s and 1980s as a sanctuary against an oppressive state are now instruments in a political debate, writes Owen Hatherley. Read more

On 17 November 2006 Dezeen published its first ever story about the Design Museum dropping the Designer of the Year award. That week we also reported on the resignation of Wallpaper editor Jeremy Langmead and the announcement that Jaime Hayon would be one of the speakers at the following year’s Design Indaba conference. Our first image-based story was a new collection of furniture by Ineke Hans, including chairs wrapped in bandages and lamps covered in tape. See all our stories from November 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: London-based Swedish designers studio vit present their project Eleven Boxes in this movie filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Oversized lollipop-like lamps and a "dollhouse-effect" entryway feature inside this restaurant in Dublin, Ireland, which Kingston Lafferty Design has completed with whimsical interiors. Read more View the full article

As part of VDF's partnership with Stockholm Design Week, designer Monica Förster takes us on a tour of the exhibition Hyper Human at the Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm. Read more View the full article

Cologne 2012: Chilean studio Great Things to People (gt2P) present this lamp covered in alpaca hair as part of [D3] Talents at imm cologne this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an interior designer/architect at Paul Lukez Architecture, whose projects include a prototype for a zero energy home (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from the UK capital, senior curator at the V&A Kieran Long explains why the London museum has controversially acquired the world's first 3D-printed gun. (more...) View the full article

News: this week marks the opening of the High Line at the Rail Yards, the third and final phase of New York's popular elevated park on a disused railway line (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article