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This exclusive photography by Monica Nouwens captures the razing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as part of controversial plans to redevelop the site with a Peter Zumthor-designed building. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Croatian-Austrian design collective Numen/For Use has created the Absent sofa for furniture brand Prostoria, which is designed to create a sitting position somewhere between upright and lying down. Read more View the full article

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have designed a bamboo version of their Blow Up furniture and tableware collection for Italian design brand Alessi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Furniture designers are ditching the skinny look for plump forms that appear to have been pumped full of air. In our latest roundup, we look at 10 designs that represent the trend. Read more View the full article

In Milan last month Japanese brand plusminuszero launched a watch where the strap slots through the back of the case. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Joao Morgado has sent us some images of a house made of glass in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by Wiel Arets Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Ian McIntyre presented his range of tableware at the graduate show last month, including these cups intended for Chai tea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has proposed a key-cutting concept that allows duplicate keys to be 3D-printed and customised by shape, colour and texture for different locks. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors to this cafe in Barcelona by architect Barbara Appolloni are led up this concrete staircase to the upper storey and a terrace beyond. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

The interior for this clothing boutique in Japan designed by Kazutoyo Yamamoto of Japanese Studio Dessence is filled with stone partitions that have arched doorway openings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The facade of this single family house near Basel by Swiss architects andOFFICE steps back to frame a wooden terrace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These twin residences in Riga, Latvia, mirror one another exactly, except that one is clad in timber and the other in blackened steel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Charred larch clads the curved walls of a seafood restaurant that projects towards the harbour in Folkestone, England. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: Philips Design in Eindhoven present a conceptual self-sufficient home that converts sewage and rubbish into power. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: pioneering multidisciplinary design consultancy Airside has announced that it is to close in March 2012, stating: “we can’t see a way for Airside to move forward and accommodate all of our individual ambitions.” (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick unveiled the prototype of his New Bus for London, Snøhetta released proposals for a Maggie’s cancer care centre in Aberdeen and Foster + Partners won a competition to design a high-speed rail station in northwest Spain. Readers decided Zaha Hadid’s car park for Miami beach must have been designed with action movie settings in mind and two New York designers sent us pictures of their handy riot-shield-cum-coffee-table invention. English heritage announced that the iconic 1986 Lloyd’s of London building designed by Richard Rogers is to be given Grade I listed status and a team of Dutch designers including Hella Jongerius, architect Rem Koolh…

This mirror with blurry edges reflects a rather dreamy image of its surroundings. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Designjunction has announced the exhibitor line-up for its next show in a former postal sorting office in central London during the London Design Festival this September. (more…) View the full article

Today we are awarding medals to the designs and architecture of the London 2012 Olympics that received the most likes on Facebook, and Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre takes the gold medal with over 5000. (more…) View the full article

It’s been a week of unfortunate likenesses for architecture on Dezeen with RMJM’s “big pants” tower for China (above) followed by the “big sink” extension to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (below). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: here’s a slideshow of the winner in the villa category at the World Architecture Festival, which is a house on a working sheep farm on North Bruny Island, Tasmania, by John Wardle Architects. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Book of Ideas has been featured in the Observer’s Christmas Gift Guide, with the newspaper describing the book as “brilliant designs from the world’s best creative minds”. (more…) View the full article

In the next movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, Gurmeet Sian of Office Sian explains how an emphasis on building relationships with his clients makes him more like a midwife than an architect. (more...) View the full article

News: British industrial designer James Irvine, who founded his studio in Milan nearly 30 years ago, has died aged 54. (more...) View the full article