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Kenjiro Sano, who unveiled his logo design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last month, has denied allegations that he copied the design from an emblem for a Belgian theatre. (more…) View the full article

The series of square waterfalls at the memorial in the footprints of the World Trade Centre buildings (above) is just one of many projects with square or cube-shaped features we published this time last year. (more…) View the full article

French artist Etienne Gros has nipped and tucked blocks of soft foam to make squidgy nude sculptures. (more…) View the full article

We used this remix by Kid Circus as the soundtrack on the final show from our TV studio at MOST, which you can watch here if you haven’t already. Upbeat, funky, and a little bit crazy, it seemed like a fitting track to round off our week in Milan with. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

American architect David Rockwell has designed a collection of more sustainable office furniture for Benchmark that draws on the adaptability of his theatre set design. Read more

Dezeen promotion: designers and architects including Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Young and Tomas Alonso will take part in talks and discussions during this year's Clerkenwell Design Week from 19 to 21 May (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Dezeen promotion: the UK's National Trust is calling upon designers to produce a visitor experience at a historic stately home, as part of its project to "redefine the country house". (more…) View the full article

Plans to overhaul the area surrounding Copenhagen's Bella Center – the location of biannual design fair Northmodern – aim to turn the neighbourhood into a year-round creative hub (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Good design is about interrogating systems not just creating beautiful chairs, biofabrication designer Natsai Audrey Chieza argued at Dezeen Day. Read more View the full article

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have positioned a scaly crown over the top of this Basel museum (photographs by Roland Halbe and Duccio Malagamba). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with an interview with British architect David Chipperfield, who describes growing up on a farm, struggling at school, how Zaha Hadid saved him from failing his architecture diploma – and why he still suffers from imposter syndrome. Read more View the full article

Cadaval & Sola-Morales has converted a derelict block in Mexico City's La Roma neighbourhood into apartments, offices and shops set around a courtyard with white staircases and trailing planting. Read more View the full article

HHF Architects and Sadar + Vuga have won a competition to adapt and reconstruct Montenegro's Dom Revolucije, a monument to Socialist revolution that has lain unfinished and derelict for almost 30 years. (more…) View the full article

Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us photographs and a movie that he shot of the Chilean Pavilion at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong biennale of urbanism/architecture 2011, where objects usually found in disaster relief shelters were used as furniture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Soltani+LeClercq has designed a translucent membrane to cover Notre-Dame Cathedral while reconstruction takes place. Read more

The interior of this São Paulo patisserie is designed by Dezembro Arquitetos to answer the question, how does it feel to be inside a croissant? Read more View the full article

This bright white house in Portugal by GSMM Architetti uses the trees on its hillside site to create a sense of intimacy, providing a counterbalance for the openness of its central courtyard (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A large glass vitrine holds rooms like exhibits at the centre of this apartment in Singapore by Chinese architects Neri&Hu. (more…) View the full article

Australian architect Andrew Burns has completed a pointy gallery and studio for artists-in-residence in Japan to replace one that was destroyed during the major earthquake of last year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The pitched roof atop this Paris house won’t keep out the rain – it’s actually a pergola for growing fruit over a roof terrace. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tel Aviv architect Kedem Shinar drew on Israel's Bauhaus architecture and her training in Japan to create the clean lines of this bright white house in Carmey Yossef (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The display system at this Japanese souvenir shop in Paris is just key rings hung on screws in the walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Goldsmiths student Nicholas Bennett has created waterproof footwear for commuters, that can be integrated into a suit to protect it from the floods that might become our daily reality due to climate change. Read more View the full article

The Temporium 2011: Playbutton is a badge with a built-in MP3 player that plays a preloaded album when headphones are attached. Playbutton is available at our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium but we only have ten so get there fast! (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A gabled cabin by architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow and a faceted pod by artist Didier Faustino have been installed inside a Parisian gallery as part of an exhibition about imaginary worlds. (more…) View the full article