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Dezeen Wire: “Software is the most important material we have come across in the last 100 years,” said Matt Jones of London studio BERG at yesterday’s Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions with some of the most interesting designers and architects from Dezeen’s local borough, curated in collaboration with Beatrice Galilee. (more…) View the full article

Two ladders are joined by hidden hinges to create this adaptable slimline coat rack by Taiwanese designer Yenwen Tseng. (more…) View the full article

News: following this week’s news that the UK government is restricting curved and glass walls on new school buildings, Aberrant Architecture‘s Kevin Haley and David Chambers are urging the Department of Education to look to the standardised schools designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil in the 1980s, which the architects are presenting in the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: Dutch designer Richard Hutten has created a series of sofas and armchairs designed to resemble the icons on a smartphone screen. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: New York studio Snarkitecture have hidden the Design Miami collectors fair behind a facade of inflatable sausages (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A housing block shaped like icebergs (above) and our World Design Guide feature in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 135 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: relaxing planning restrictions on the green belt would destroy London's vitality "even more surely than it would despoil the countryside," architect Richard Rogers has warned. (more...) View the full article

French designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange has created a cross between a poster and a lamp. (more...) View the full article

News: a bill to extend copyright protection on industrial design from 25 years to the length of the author's life plus 70 years has today become law in the UK. (more...) View the full article

A tiny mobile performance venue based on sixteenth century market stalls and Roman fortune tellers will be appearing around the Lower Marsh area of Waterloo in London this summer. (more...) View the full article

The F-Type, the follow-up to British brand Jaguar's iconic E-Type and the first new sports car in this series in over 50 years, has finally gone on sale (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A tapered column of cast concrete supports the underside of a dark oak staircase inside one of the residences that occupies this converted London garage by Patalab Architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Two blocks face each other across the forecourt of this symmetrical housing development in São Paulo by local firm Corsi Hirano Arquitetos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Reclaimed ceramic tiles decorate the recesses of this long white pavilion, which stretches across a redesigned town square in Provence by French architecture studio Comac (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our second movie from Eindhoven, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens explains his concept for a modular mobile phone made of detachable blocks, an idea that looks set to become a reality now he has teamed up with Motorola. (more...) View the full article

Today is the tenth letter in our A-Zdvent calendar and features John Pawson. His British firm remodelled this old church in Augsburg, Germany earlier this year (pictured) and yesterday announced he'll be the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project. See more architecture by John Pawson Architects » View the full article

This performing arts centre in São Paulo by Brasil Arquitetura features huge concrete volumes lifted off the ground to create accessible public spaces and has been named on the shortlist for the Designs of the Year awards, announced this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This shell-like concrete structure with triangular slices is an auditorium designed by Luxembourg studio Valentiny HVP Architects for an annual music festival in the Brazilian town of Trancoso (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wearable 3D-printed eyeglass that monitors breathing and pupil size to measure what people find interesting online has been developed by students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Madrid fashion designer Yulia Yadryshnikova's latest capsule collection includes a dress that unfolds into a cover for designer Luca Nichetto's most recent sofa. (more...) View the full article

Belgian studios Wil-Ma and Wastiau have collaborated on the design of an office building in Westerlo, near Antwerp, which looks like a house raised on angled stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Thousands of ceramic poppies have been planted around the Tower of London for tomorrow's centenary marking the start of the First World War (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: east London design brand Vitamin has unveiled its latest range of products at designjunction (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Strips of untreated oak are used to clad every surface of this house in the English countryside by London office Peter Feeny Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: architect David Mikhail explains how he transformed a typical 19th-century London house into a "great family home" with all of its "original dignity" in this movie produced by Living Projects. (more…) View the full article