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We've recently featured a 1920s styled bar by Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and the creation of an Italian restaurant by Neri&Hu in Shanghai, so our latest Pinterest board gathers together eclectic bars and restaurants from all over the globe. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See all our stories featuring restaurants and bars » View the full article

This week Peter Zumthor was named as winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, an undulating golden extension to the Louvre (above) opened in Paris and open-source blueprints for 3D-printed guns were released. (more…) View the full article

UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel's opening seminar at World Architecture Festival 2016 will examine how architects can support new egalitarian ideals for living. Tune in here to watch it live from Berlin. Read more View the full article

As Peter Zumthor has this week been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture, here’s another chance to watch the movie interview Dezeen filmed with him last summer, in which he told us “I’m a passionate architect and I think it’s a beautiful profession.” (more…) View the full article

Mies van der Rohe designed this golf clubhouse in 1930 for the countryside surrounding Krefeld, Germany, but it's only just been constructed (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture and design magazine Metropolis has been acquired by New York media company Sandow. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: Lebanese designer Najla El Zein has installed 5000 spinning paper windmills in a doorway at the V&A museum in London. (more...) View the full article

Homeware and accessories brand Trame made its debut at Maison&Objet with a collection, Voyages to Meknes, based on the fictional story of Louis XIV's daughter marrying the Sultan of Morocco. Read more View the full article

Musician Moby has hit out at architects "who think about stuff that can be photographed well, but who never actually plan on spending time in the spaces they create". (more…) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers can't decide whether the Hoxton Press towers, by Karakusevic Carson Architects and David Chipperfield Architects, look new or retro.

This time five years ago Dezeen visited Stockholm Furniture Fair for the very first time, where we saw an artificial garden created by designer and guest of honour Konstantin Grcic, as well as installations by up and coming designers at the Greenhouse show. We reported on the graphic design of three different magazines - the makeover of Portuguese national newspaper Público, the new look for British architecture newspaper Building Design and brand new lifestyle magazine Monocle, which is now celebrating its fifth birthday. British architects FAT revealed images of a decorative school facade that one Dezeen reader thought was “strange stuff” plus we featured misty imag…

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New Zealand winemaker Brancott Estate and designer Dror Benshetrit to give one reader the chance to win two tickets to an exclusive talk in New York City on 21 October 2015 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Milan is “sitting in the past” and Italy is “losing the culture behind production,” according to Patrizia Moroso, head of leading Italian furniture brand Moroso (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

San Francisco studio Fuseproject has created a concept for a wearable device to allow people in the developing world to test themselves for symptoms of chronic illnesses such as malaria without having to visit a doctor (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed a glass bottle and identity for a scheme that encourages hotels to filter water on site rather than importing it in plastic bottles. (more...) View the full article

New York City officials are pushing to legalise the use of drones for facade inspections after an architect was killed by falling debris from a building in the city. Read more View the full article

A visitor centre designed by Trace Architecture Office for a park in Rongcheng, China, is a long and thin concrete bridge complete with a lighthouse-like viewing tower clad in wooden shingles. Read more

News: next month's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York will be the first major design fair to place 3D printing and digital fabrication at the core of its programme, with a four-day series of workshops introducing the hardware and software that could change the face of design, manufacturing and distribution (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Designer Faye Toogood talks through her installation of 49 workers' coats hanging above the street in the first of this series of movies we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

London's Royal College of Art has been named as the top art and design school in an annual international ranking, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has retained the title of top architecture school. (more…) View the full article

A garden studio dedicated to rug making, a sunken Japanese-style bath and a spacious kitchen built from pale bricks feature among the 24 projects shortlisted in a competition to find London's best home extensions. Read more View the full article

French studio Dank Architectes wanted to make this minimalist apartment they designed near Lyon look "more alive" in the photographs, so they staged scenes depicting the days before and after a messy party. (more...) View the full article

Reclaimed metal panels and wood from railroad trestles were used to create an urban infill dwelling conceived by students in a design-build programme at the University of Kansas. Read more View the full article

Roger Scruton, the British conservative thinker, author and architecture critic, who was co-chair of Building Better, Building Beautiful, has passed away at the age of 75. Read more View the full article

French design duo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will introduce their first fabric collection of upholstery textiles knitted from jersey in Milan next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article