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London designers Zerofee have created a mobile web app for following the #milanuncut project. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this fourth movie filmed by Dezeen in 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, designers Joseph Grima and Jeffrey Johnson explain their urban farm project Landgrab City. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designers can now apply to exhibit their ideas for hotel rooms as part of Sleepotel at The Sleep Event in London this November. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: AA student Aditya Aachi has been awarded the 2011 Foster + Partners Prize for a sanitation infrastructure concept in Haiti, which was severely damaged by an earthquake in 2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An army of 100 scarecrows dressed in glowing decontamination suits kept a sinister vigil over the Dockville Festival in Hamburg earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architect Serge Salat has designed an infinite labyrinth of shapes and colours for a touring exhibition in China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age. See links to more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here. </img> </img> </img> </img&g…

British photographers Hufton + Crow have sent us new images of the Dresden Museum of Military History, which reopened last month following an extension by New York architect Daniel Libeskind. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These magnetic bicycle lights by Copenhagen Parts turn on as soon as they come into contact with the steel frame. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: granite bleachers climb the exterior of this sports centre in Portugal by architects Barbosa & Guimarães, while a cantilevered, rusted-steel cafe looms over its entrance (photographs by José Campos). (more…) View the full article

Creative studio Büro für MEHR has designed a concept for a drive-through airport that processes planes like a car wash. (more…) View the full article

This young writers’ workshop in Sydney by architects LAVA is parading as an embassy for Martians on earth (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ta-da! We’ve completely overhauled our notoriously rusty site search using Google Custom Search technology and it’s now pretty amazing, if we may say so. As well as being a gazillion times faster and more accurate, it now features thumbnail images, a dedicated image search facility and the option to search by relevance or date. Give it a test-drive using the search box at the very top right of the site, or use the little magic box below… View the full article

London Design Festival: a new gallery showcasing socially responsible design has opened in Soho and its inaugural collection features furniture from Brazil curated by US specialists Espasso plus pieces by designers including Studiomama and Australian collective Supercyclers. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: American architect and designer Greg Lynn has created a prototype for a motorised compact-living cocoon that rotates to provide space for relaxing, sleeping and bathing (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

From certain angles this performance centre in Belgium has a colourful stripy facade, but from others it appears camouflaged amongst the surrounding trees (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is now inviting guests to rent a holiday home he built for his family in the mountain hamlet of Leis in Vals (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: three residential towers designed by Foster + Partners for a riverside development in central London have been given the go-ahead by Lambeth Council. (more...) View the full article

In this movie made as part of our collaboration with print-on-demand publisher Blurb, we visit three of the world's leading 3D-printing companies and explain how we produced Print Shift, the 60-page magazine about 3D printing that we launched earlier today. (more...) View the full article

Architectural sketches and motifs are etched across the concrete walls of the Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin by Russian architecture collective SPEECH Tchoban/Kuznetsov. (more...) View the full article

This tricycle designed for children by Vietnamese firm a21studio has been crafted from bamboo and finished with ropes. (more...) View the full article

A row of aluminium ribs curves away from the serrated glass facade of this research laboratory in England to help shelter occupants from the sun (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the builders behind this two-tower 47-storey skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain, have forgotten to include a working lift. (more...) View the full article

This former butchers shop in Barcelona has been converted into a shoe shop furnished with wooden pallets, ropes and tyres (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens has made his own machines for recycling plastic to make new products locally and plans to share the designs so others around the world can do the same. (more...) View the full article