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Design group United Nude have taken a number of recognisable objects and created simplified versions, including this Lamborghini, made up of a series of triangulated planes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house on the outskirts of Isa, Japan is by architects EASTERN design office and has been raised on a concrete block to afford views of the sea. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A slide is hidden behind the mirrored wall in this Tokyo office by Japanese studio Schemata Architecture Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Note Design Studio present a series of objects developed from doodles in the margins of their sketchbooks at their Stockholm studio this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Barcelona by architect Santiago Parramón of RTA-Office is clad in slabs of basalt. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted chocolate-brown panels line the walls of this chocolatiers’s shop in Brussels designed by Minale Design Strategy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and landscape designers James Corner Field Operations have completed Section 2 of the High Line, a 1.5 mile-long elevated park on an abandoned railway in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another set of photographs of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Peter Zumthor, this time by photographer Julien Lanoo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Square box windows provide seating areas at a hospital unit in Bath, UK, for sick and premature babies. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Exclusive: Fab.com co-founder Bradford Shellhammer is to return to online design retail with a new venture called Bezar (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

This week David Lynch unveiled his Paris nightclub, the Campana brothers completed their first hotel and BMW presented a pair of sustainable concept cars. Our readers were shocked by a contraceptive device incorporating a one-cent coin and disturbed by a range of lamps that are turned on when you pull their nipples. Our most popular story featured a monochrome house overlooking the Hollywood sign and readers admired the black charred facade of a tea house in the Czech Republic. A bizarre collection of crafted objects went on show at the V&A, a retractable room divider for hospital wards won the UK James Dyson Award and the RIBA asked “has the architectu…

Dezeen Wire: The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains that the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond for next year’s Olympics in London, has been an easy target for jokes but that it demonstrates Britain’s manufacturing capabilities and says it “may even effect buildings of the future just as the Eiffel Tower and the Crystal Palace did” - The Guardian </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve got together with design brand Republic of Fritz Hansen to give readers the chance to win a Kaiser Idell Luxus lamp worth £600. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Christmas cards from architects Zaha Hadid, Threefold, and Coop Himmelb(l)au, as well as designers Tom Dixon, Studio Job and Marcel Wanders were getting everyone into the festive spirit. We took a break from eating mince pies to feature windows that create constantly changing shadows in response to the wintery weather outside, a chair shaped like an oar and a picnic pavilion comprising a giant pillow on stilts. Our most popular stories over the holidays were two concrete houses by Japanese architects Apollo, one that readers thought could do with windows and another that was inspired by a drawer being pulled out of a box. See all our stories from…

Black frames outline rows of olive oil bottles at this culinary shop in Toronto, while images of olive branches decorate the walls behind. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Thomas Heatherwick to give away five copies of Making, the new book covering his studio’s output to date. (more…) View the full article

Drivers along a coastal road in Iceland can now stop at a curved concrete service station styled like an American diner by architects KRADS of Iceland and Denmark. (more…) View the full article

The London 2012 Olympics continue and so do the Dezeen Olympics, awarding medals to the design and architecture of the games. Today’s competition is for the most tweeted stories about our coverage and we give the gold medal to Banksy’s Olympic-inspired street art. (more…) View the full article

A pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups by east London designer Paul Cocksedge is the next piece for the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann used raw concrete, oak and travertine to create the smooth walls and floors of this home and poolhouse overlooking Lake Zurich (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: this new silver-faced version of the elegant Vigorelli watch by Matteo Ragni is now available to buy with FREE SHIPPING at Dezeen Watch Store. It features a square stainless steel case and a sloped inner ring, inspired by the iconic Vigorelli Velodrome built in Milan in 1935. The watch has a leather strap and can be bought online or over the phone. View the full article

Latvian designer Anna Butele used fluorescent paint and marker pens to write inspirational messages across the walls at the new office of her interior design firm Annvil in Riga (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The classic blue Nivea tin inspired an overhaul of the skincare brand's packaging by San Franscisco-based designer Yves Béhar and his studio fuseproject. (more...) View the full article

This stop-frame movie by American photographer James Florio documents the day and night-time scenes at Elqui Domos, a hotel for stargazers in Chile's Elqui Valley. (more...) View the full article