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Stockholm 2011: designer Thomas Bernstrand of Sweden presented this skewed stackable shelving unit at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the British Council will invite architects to conduct research projects in far-flung places and present their findings at an exhibition entitled Venice Takeaway in the British Pavilion at next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Min-Kyu Choi was awarded the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2010 for his Folding Plug at a ceremony at the Design Museum in London last night. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German brand Tecta have put into production a series of storage boxes on sticks originally designed by the late British architect Alison Smithson in 1988. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A boomerang-shaped museum in Mexico is balanced on stilts and stabilised in the air by tensile cables, allowing it to bridge a road and cantilever over a lake. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have laid a stripy field of fabric inside the Raphael Court of the V&A museum as part of the London Design Festival. You can see an animation of the project over on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London's brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. Read more View the full article

This angular structure looping around a central courtyard is an office building in Saint-Etienne by French studio Manuelle Gautrand Architecture. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As part of a waterfront development for Oslo called Bjørvika Barcode, Norwegian architects a-lab have designed an office and residential building with a covered garden punched through the middle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

For those who’d rather be woken by a gentle breeze or the smell of coffee that a shrill alarm, Royal College of Art graduate Ki Hyun Kim has designed a clock that wakes users with the electrical appliance of their choice. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slabs of board-marked concrete form the walls, floors and roof of this holiday home designed by architects by Luciano Kruk and María Victoria Besonías for a coastal forest near Buenos Aires (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: since The Bird’s Nest by Inrednin Gsgruppen was so frequently mentioned on Twitter this week, so we have compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about treehouses. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong firm O Studio Architects have completed a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the official guide to this year’s London Design Festival is now available on line. Download a copy here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs of the Moscow School of Management by architect David Adjaye, where four buildings precariously cantilever over a large circular base. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Iconic Italian homeware brand Alessi has sold a 40 per cent stake to private equity fund Oakley Capital. Read more

Dezeenwire: the Shenzhen Stock Exchange building by OMA topped out today – see press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of this building by AGi architects of Spain and Kuwait, comprising three homes clad in white stucco and three homes in black stone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Music: Belgian studio Framekit based its animated music video for French band Toybloïd's track If You Dare on road trip films from the 1960s and 1970s (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Shimmering panels of stainless steel create the appearance of a rippling lake above the heads of shoppers at a supermarket in Moscow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni celebrates Valentine’s Day by piercing a real heart with a solid silver arrow and hanging it in the window of his Florence shop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a selection of our favourite Christmas e-cards sent in by designers, including this one from UK designers Lazerian. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Congratulations to Copy Nature/Nature of Copies who won our competition for a free exhibition space in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell today unveils a new series of combined table and chair forms finished in materials including gravel, thorns, corn and broken glass. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This building in Lyon by Paris designer Cyrille Druart houses motor-racing simulators. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article