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Dezeenwire: the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ think tank, Building Futures, have published a report predicting dramatic changes in architecture practice by the year 2025. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in an interview with Farah Nayeri for Bloomberg Businessweek, architect Rem Koolhaas describes the European Union as “an incomplete machine” and claims that it will “disintegrate” unless political leaders complete the task of integration begun when the EU was founded. Koolhaas also talks about working in China, the global workforce currently inhabiting the countryside and his former employee, Zaha Hadid, who he says was “a very independent and massively talented person from the beginning.” Dezeen spoke to Rem Koolhaas and other partners from his practice OMA at the opening of OMA/Progress, an exhibition at the Barbican art gallery in London. You can see t…

Dezeen Wire: a team of engineers based in California have created a material made from a lattice of hollow metallic tubes that they claim is the lightest in the world – BBC The substance is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and consists of 99.99% air. Tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair are used to create the lattice structure that gives the material it’s strength. Potential applications include shock and sound absorption and thermal insulation. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Antilia, the “world’s most expensive house”, has been completed in Mumbai, India - Time </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, Sugru founder Jane ní Dhulchaointigh shares her journey through inventing and launching a “space-age rubber” that lets people customise their belongings and endorses the idea that “you don’t have to be an expert to do amazing things”. (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Ying Gao has fabricated a pair of dresses that writhe around and light up when someone stares at them (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

An exhibition about the problems faced by international architects working in China is on display as part of Beijing Design Week, exploring the issues at play through the stories of twelve projects that never made it. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian studio Estudio Guto Requena have designed an exhibition stand that changes color in response to how busy the space gets. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: a storage rail based on a traditional Shaker-style peg board, a scaly room divider and a magnetic lamp were revealed as the winners of the [D3] Contest for young designers at the imm cologne trade fair today. (more...) View the full article

Today we’re launching a Twitter concierge service to help readers navigate the London Design Festival. If you’re looking for tips or directions, we’ll be on hand to help you out via our @dezeen Twitter account. Later today we’ll be tweeting details of two parties our readers are invited to, so start following us now! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss designer Adrien Rovero has created a sofa that can be transformed into a bed by re-arranging blocks of upholstery. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have combined a desk, shelves and swivel chair to create a flexible workspace in a single item of furniture. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2011: Dezeen is supporting #milanuncut: an experimental, collaborative journalism project that aims to lift the lid on the design world to coincide with next week’s Milan furniture fair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Turkish architects are creating line drawings of protest shelters and structures following the recent occupation of Istanbul's Gezi Park. (more...) View the full article

Saint Petersburg designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov has attached two strips of felt to a chair for keeping cosy while working in winter. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Family and PlayLab have designed a floating swimming pool for New York that would filter river water through its walls. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This cantilevered wooden house by Japanese studio UID Architects hovers ten metres above the forest floor and has a hole underneath to let trees grow up inside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Canadian firm +tongtong has overhauled a traditional home in Toronto, adding a large triangular window, dark zinc cladding and an interior lightwell that provides natural illumination. (more…) View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Behar has designed the inaugural product from new Danish mobile phone brand Æsir. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

OMA's new Tokyo store for American accessories brand Coach is a glazed cube with a herringbone-patterned display system (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Shipping containers are often repurposed to create buildings, and this structure by Tel Aviv studio Potash Architects features one container balanced at a precarious angle (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

A $100 million alteration designed to prop up the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in San Francisco has been approved as tenants reach a tentative settlement with its developers. Read more

Dezeen Wire: the U.N. World Intellectual Property Agency has reported a rise in the amount paid as royalties and licensing fees from $2.8 billion to $180 billion in the last 40 years, representing a 60-fold increase – The Washington Post The report shows that high income countries such as France, Germany, Japan, Britain and the United States continue to lead the way in research and development but that China’s share in the global market has risen from 2.2 percent in 1993 to 12.8 per cent in 2009. Last week we reported on measures being taken by the UK government to improve intellectual property laws, designer James Dyson also raised the issue when he accused a Chinese…

A solid gold toilet artwork has been stolen from an exhibition at Blenheim Palace, forcing the artist Maurizio Cattelan to deny that the theft was a Banksy-style hoax. Read more