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French graffiti artist Tilt has swamped one half of a Marseille hotel room in decoration, while the other half remains completely blank. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Guide: design events taking place in March include festivals in Iceland (pictured), Mexico and Costa Rica, plus thirteen more in our update this month. (more...) View the full article

An exposed concrete island, a dark walnut staircase and spotty tiles all feature in our roundup of the most-pinned kitchens to be featured on Dezeen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

China's days as a major producer of fake designer goods are numbered, according to Design Shanghai's creative director Ross Urwin. (more…)

American firm Bates Masi + Architects took cues from a historic lifeguard station while designing this cedar-clad dwelling on Long Island, New York. Read more View the full article

An exhibition about how women shaped twentieth-century design is on show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: German manufacturer Kaldewei has developed a patented version of steel enamel that prevents mildew and discolouration from latching onto bathroom surfaces. Read more View the full article

Spanish architecture studio Sol89 has converted a former slaughterhouse in the historic town of Medina-Sidonia into a school for training chefs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen screen: in this final interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri about his restaurant design within a hotel where cut-outs in the ceiling mean diners can look up into the bedrooms above. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The New York office of Dutch firm OMA has proposed an apartment building with a "prismatic" corner for Manhattan. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: here are the first images of the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron designed by Thomas Heatherwick, unveiled at the opening ceremony of the games tonight. (more…) View the full article

Continuing our high-tech architecture series, Catherine Slessor looks at how the women in Team 4 helped shape the narrative of the movement. Read more View the full article

As part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro‘s series of talks on Italian design at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will chair a discussion with Milan designer Fabio Novembre on 29 November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The mint-green shutters, white walls and red tiled roof of this house and studio by Gaztelu Jerez Arquitectos reference the 1940s home it replaces near the Spanish city of Burgos. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2012: Swedish designers Form Us With Love presented vases comprising slabs of quartz compound slotted onto a metal frame in Stockholm last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with designer Tom Dixon and architecture firms Marks Barfield and Benthem Crouwel Architects. Read more View the full article

Architect Farshid Moussavi will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime interview sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 3:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Halo by Seoul-based art studio Kimchi and Chips features 99 robotic mirrors that move continuously throughout the day, following the sun like sunflowers. Read more

This two-in-one concept wheel by tyre manufacturer Goodyear can be used to drive on the road and as a propeller for flying in the sky. Read more

Architects TYIN tegnestue of Norway have taken an empty slot in a dense residential area of Bangkok and worked with the local community to built a climbing frame and basketball court. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beirut designer Richard Yasmine has created a collection of glass vessels that rest on dildo-like brass objects. Read more View the full article

This suburban family house in Japan by architect Yoshiaki Nagasaka is pretending to be a cabin in a forest (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This desk lamp resembling bent blades of grass is by American designer Victor Vetterlein. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Matra Architects has used precast slabs of textured white concrete to clad a house formed of three interconnected pavilions set high above a lake in Udaipur, India. Read more View the full article

San Francisco studio John Lum Architecture has contrasted the look of this cottage-style house in the city with a steel-and-glass extension at the back. Read more View the full article