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Dutch architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design an extension to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Canada. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Barcelona architects Xavier Vilalta Studio have won a competition to design a tower for Doha, Qatar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have designed a set of stainless steel mesh baskets for Italian design brand Alessi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This glass library by new studio Zauberscho[e]n stands in a former stable yard in Münster, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris design studio A+A cooren have designed a collection of lights held together with velcro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at DMY Berlin, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs chaired a panel discussion with editors and authors of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Japanese bathroom brand TOTO launched a toilet by Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie filmed by Dezeen at Shenzhen& Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism 2009, Benjamin Ball of Ball-Nogues Studio talks about their installation made by suspending 10,000 garments. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this Dezeen podcast for the Design Museum architect David Adjaye talks to curator Gemma Curtin about Urban Africa, an exhibition of his photographs on show at the museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another house by Osaka studio TOFU Architects (see their N House in our earlier story), this time located in Fukui, Japan, and completely wrapped in a material normally used for roofing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of work by Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto has opened at the V&A museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: Spanish furniture and product design graduate Ornella Stocco has created a modular furniture system with joints made of porcelain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan designers Gabriele and Oscar Buratti have collaborated with bathroom brand Roca to create a combined toilet and wash basin, where waste water from the sink is used to fill the toilet cistern. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Introducing a new feature on Dezeen: here’s a roundup of the top stories, news, comments and movies this week. Our most hotly debated story was about an upside-down skyscraper designed to neighbour the Hoover Dam – you can join the discussion here. Other stories that caused a stir included stools created in an explosion and an absurdly cantilevered Berlin hotel. Check out all our stories about alarming cantilevers here. Meanwhile the RIBA revealed this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist, UK designers joined forces to promote design education in schools and Palestinian business leaders announced plans to launch a national brand. Over on Dezeen Watch Store we’ve…

Here’s some more nautical design from London designers PostlerFerguson (see their buoy-shaped lamps in our earlier story), this time a set of wooden toy ships. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This apartment building by Austrian architects LOVE architecture is part of the ongoing redevelopment of the port of Hamburg, Germany. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio a.un architects have completed a house clad inside and out in wood, located in Mie, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Eindhoven designer Kiki van Eijk presents a collection of wooden furniture with ceramic drawers for the Zuiderzee Museum at the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven studio DHV Architecten have completed a laboratory for nanotechnology in Delft, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China that’s covered in firewood. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs, including positions with architects MAD in Beijing plus designers Heatherwick Studio and Tom Dixon. This is also the last chance to apply to work with OMA, Levitate and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Wooden latices line booths either side of a long walkway in this mountain-top ski cafe on the island of Hokkaido in Japan by Japanese studio Design Spirits. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York firm REX have completed two office buildings in Istanbul, Turkey, where one is built inside the other. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pavilion created for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale mishmashes the architectural styles of three studios to question authorship. Read more View the full article

Production designer Lee Ha Jun created the house at the centre of the film Parasite based on a basic sketch drawn by director Bong Joon–Ho. In this interview, Jun explains how he designed the set that many people thought was a real house. Read more View the full article