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Finnish studio Feathr has launched its first wallpaper collection with designs by artists that specialise in disciplines such as surfwear design and body art. (more…) View the full article

Our featured architect this week is Steven Holl, whose recent buildings in China include the completed Sliced Porosity Block cluster of towers in Chengdu and designs for a pair of museums in a new city quarter of Tianjin. See all our stories about architecture by Steven Holl » View the full article

Featured architect: David Chipperfield is our featured architect at the moment, having just been announced as this year’s winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture (see our Dezeenwire story). Browse all Dezeen’s stories about him in this special category. Featured architect: David Chipperfield Above photograph is by Martin Godwin </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured architects: Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron are our featured architects at the moment. Browse all Dezeen’s stories about them in this special category. Enjoy! Featured architects: Herzog & de Meuron Above (from left): Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron. Portrait © HamburgMusik/Michael Zapf. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To celebrate the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei we’ve compiled all our stories about his work in one place. Ai Weiwei was missing for 81 days after being detained by authorities at Beijing airport on 3 April. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured category: for the summer season we’ve created a new architecture category, grouping together all our stories about pavilions. Happy browsing! Featured category: pavilions Above: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel. Photograph is by Julien Lanoo </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured category: you can now browse all our stories about skyscrapers in our new architecture category including the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa by SOM (above). Featured category: Skyscrapers » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Thomas Heatherwick’s design for the Olympic Cauldron stole the show at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony on Friday night. Here’s a round-up of all our stories about Heatherwick; highlights include our video interviews with him about the cauldron, about his “hairy” UK pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010; and the new London double-decker bus. Click here to see all our stories about Thomas Heatherwick View the full article

Industrial designer Yves Béhar of San Francisco studio fuseproject is our featured designer this week. See all our stories about him by clicking here. We also now stock his new Vue watch for Issey Miyake over at Dezeen Watch Store. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami: Dezeen is in Miami Beach this week for Design Miami 2012, which opens to the public today and runs until 9 December. See our photos from the press day on Facebook or see all our stories about this year’s edition of the design fair, including artist and architect Vito Acconci’s plans for a playground in the Miami Design District after receiving the Designer of the Year Award. Above image: Glithero’s installation for Perrier-Jouët at Design Miami View the full article

As the UK goes to the polls to decide whether it should stay a member of the European Union, we've rounded up all of our stories looking at how the outcome will affect the architecture and design industries. See Dezeen's coverage of the EU referendum » View the full article

Check out all our stories about this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show, including a 3D-printer that uses sunlight to make sand into glass objects, clothes that feed information to smart phones and spectacle frames made of hair. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is in Venice this week for the preview of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until 25 November. See our photos from the first day on Facebook, see all our preview stories here and watch our interview with director of the biennale David Chipperfield here, in which he urges the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with” in order to avoid becoming merely “urban decorators.” Above image: Vessel by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects in the Arsenale View the full article

Visitors to this cafe in Barcelona by architect Barbara Appolloni are led up this concrete staircase to the upper storey and a terrace beyond. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A controversial Apple Store designed by Foster + Partners for Melbourne's Federation Square has been cancelled after plans were blocked by Australian heritage authorities. Read more

"Less is more" and "form follows beauty" are some of the famous architect quotes reimagined as roadside advertisements in this set of illustrations by Italian graphic designer Federico Babina. (more…) View the full article

The buildings of 26 prolific architects are transformed into letters of the alphabet in this series of detailed illustrations by graphic designer Federico Babina. (more...) View the full article

An elephant, giraffe and crocodile are among the animals that Federico Babina has illustrated in these zoomorphic floor plans. Read more

Iconic buildings, from Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre to Zaha Hadid's Glasgow Riverside Museum, have been transformed into classic movie posters in the latest series by Italian illustrator Federico Babina. (more...) View the full article

American delivery company FedEx has developed an autonomous robotic delivery device to help retailers distribute same-day orders to their customers. Read more

This shelter for the remains of a Roman villa in Gloucestershire, England, is wrapped in slats of untreated larch so that it will blend peacefully into the landscape over time (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: British firm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has unveiled plans to slot a glazed extension over the brutalist concrete architecture of Southbank Centre in London. (more...) View the full article

London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has revealed plans for a visitors' centre with rammed-earth walls in Europe's largest modern and contemporary sculpture park. (more…) View the full article

A gallery, interpretation space, restaurant and shop designed by Feilden Fowles has opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in northern England. Read more

Architecture studio Feld72 have completed the Maierhof housing estate in the Alpine town of Bludenz, Austria, comprising eight timber buildings in a mountain landscape. Read more