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Milan 2011: visitors lower objects into pits of molten wax then hang them from the ceiling to solidify in this installation created by students of the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva at workshops with designer Matali Crasset and curator Alexandra Midal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: German architect Selcuk Ünyilmaz has prepared designs for a £2.2 million mosque near Hamburg with wind turbines in its minarets – Guardian </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: product design graduate Ben Fursdon has created the Broo-ver, a broom converted into a vacuum cleaner. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This roof of this sea-facing holiday house in Perth jolts up and down to create four irregular gables. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects Astoc have completed a monastery extension in Duisberg with walls that fold around the entrance like origami sculptures. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: golden plates and cutlery become slowly submerged underwater when this table is set. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Want more choice in your chocolate box? Mix and match fillings and toppings with these modular chocolates by French designer Elsa Lambinet. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To finish off 2011 we’re showcasing our five most popular stories from each month of the year. First up is January, when this mirrored treehouse hotel in Sweden was our most-clicked story. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Dezeen was in Cologne for the annual furniture fair, where we saw a sofa you could wrap around yourself, a chair bent from a single sheet of aluminium and a rocking horse shaped like a vase. We also teamed up with [D3] Design Talents to host a series of talks with 12 designers who launched their careers at the young designers’ showcase, which you can watch over on Dezeen Screen. Meanwhile, a water-tower with a womanly form was compared to computer game heroine Lara Croft, while readers were unanimously wowed by the residential extension to the orangery of an eighteenth century castle and we featured an unusual hair clip that gives you eyes in the bac…

This week's headlines were dominated by tragic events in France and the subsequent response by illustrators from across the world. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our regular track of the week. (more…) View the full article

These chandeliers by London designers Troika use large fresnel lenses to shape the light from LEDs suspended below them into overlapping geometric patterns on the ceiling of the Royal Society of Arts‘ headquarters in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

If you’re a fan of retro keyboard sounds, you’ll love this track by Monster Bobby. A1 Autoroute du Nord is a driving, pulsing track with a definite nod to 1980s synth-pop. It also reminds us of some of the excellent 80s-inspired music on the soundtrack to last year’s Nicolas Winding Refn movie, Drive. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Save the date! On 1 August, Dezeen presents Designed in Hackney Day: a day of design talks, debates, performances and shops involving the best and most interesting architects, designers and makers in the east London borough of Hackney. (more…) View the full article

Our Dezeen Super Store is now open at 38 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, London WC2 and readers can get 10% off any purchase in the store* by downloading this special flyer and presenting it at the store. Check out our 2012 summer special issue of Dezeen Mail for an invitation to a party, tickets for a special FREE event and details of how to get up to 40% off in our watch store sale. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail. * excluding sale stock and Jambox View the full article

This gabled house in Italy by Austrian architects Casati has stripy wooden walls on the outside and bumpy limestone walls on the inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have completed a school for hotel management in Montepellier, France, clad in anodized aluminum triangles and punctured by 5000 unique triangular windows. (more…) View the full article

Belgian design collective Rotor interfered with the restoration of these disused dockside gravel pits to reveal traces of Ghent’s industrial past (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This stool by Norwegian designer Hallgeir Homstvedt is held up by three slim, curved legs inspired by skateboards (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Product news: Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of furniture with components that look like they’re peeled away from wooden stems (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a call for junior architects at XTEN Architecture in Los Angeles, USA. Their California-based projects include NakaHouse (pictured above), a remodel of a 1960s hillside house built just below the famous Hollywood sign. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Hackney-based Studio Weave has constructed a network of listening pipes in a back courtyard of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital to create a secret factory of lullabies for children (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with UNStudio (whose founder Ben van Berkel is pictured above), Starbucks and Fredrikson Stallard, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marc Newson, Marcel Wanders and more... (more...) View the full article

Tweets sent to this machine are transmitted from one form of media to another and cannibalised at every stage until they emerge as distorted, printed headlines (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: researchers at MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter group have created a dome from silk fibres woven by a robotic arm, which was then finished by live silkworms (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Trend forcaster Li Edelkoort shows there is more to fetishism than just bondage with garments displayed at this year's MoBA 2013 fashion biennale in Arnhem, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article