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Dan Brill Architects of the UK are among 12 international practices shortlisted to design a pedestrian footbridge for Trestles Beach, a surf spot in southern California. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some images of the Polish pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 designed by Polish studio WWAA Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects RDAI have completed this new Paris boutique for fashion brand Hermès inside a 1930s swimming pool building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: at Designersblock in Milan last week designers including Gitta Gschwendtner, Carl Clerkin and William Warren presented chairs made in an English forest with green woodworking techniques. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An oversailing glass roof and steel mesh curtain protect a two-storey extension and terrace at a historic Sydney house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In Milan next month Italian brand Cappellini will launch this cantilevered stool by New York designer Todd Bracher. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this one-person house with a tobacco shop on the ground floor in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Finnish designer Tuukka Halonen has designed a range of pendant lights made of repeated interlocking parts for design brand Skandium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design has not been valued in Africa for decades, says Nigerian interior designer Titi Ogufere, who has launched a design week in Lagos in a bid to change that. Read more

Berlin designers Beta Tank want to make scaffolding pretty. Designer Eyal Burstein has started out by casting a series of scaffolding joints in glazed porcelain with gold and platinum nuts and bolts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Luis Machuca has completed a new faculty building for the Universidad de Málaga, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Open-plan rooms of subtly different proportions are created by an off-centre courtyard in this square house in rural Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’re continuing to upload all our videos to Dezeen Screen, including this interview we did with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan in 2009. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These lamp shades wrapped in adhesive tape are by Italian designer Sylvia Pichler for design brand Skitsch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These clothes by Montreal fashion designer Ying Gao curl and unfurl in reaction to light. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: visitors to Dezeen Space today can listen to the ambient sounds of the local area through a tangle of corrugated plastic tubes, courtesy of Polish studio mode:lina at Dezeen Platform. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We have extended the opening period of our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up at 55 Neal Street in London by an extra week, due to strong demand. The store will now remain open until Saturday 16 July. Full details of the store – described by the Evening Standard as “beautifully designed” – can be found in our earlier story. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This apartment block with a pleated facade of golden aluminium by French studio [bP] Architectures faces the Place de la Bastille, Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buenos Aires architects Estudio BaBO have completed an extension to a townhouse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where a modern rectangular structure sits on top of the original early twentieth-century building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and British designer Tom Dixon have teamed up once again to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Industry, the first in a series of self-published books by Dixon. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio Tulp Design have created a company canteen in Munich designed to make workers feel like they’re dining under water. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was our most popular architecture story last week so here’s a run-down of all twelve temporary pavilions over the years by architects including SANAA in 2009 (above, photographed by Iwan Baan), Jean Nouvel in 2010 and Frank Gehry in 2008. (more…) View the full article

New York practice Reiser + Umemoto have won the first prize in a competition to design a new port terminal for the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Antonio Ravalli Architetti’s hostel where guests sleep in fabric pods was our most-clicked story this week so here’s a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive featuring fabric interiors. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this electric scooter (above) is one of three concept scooters unveiled by British vehicle brand MINI in London yesterday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article