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Designers Kram/Weisshaar are to install a robotic “octopus” in Trafalgar Square during the London Design Festival in September. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with New York company .MGX by Materialise and artist Daniel Wright to create this 3D printed breastplate. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: here’s another machine by Mischer’Traxler (see their Nespresso Battery in our earlier story), this time a device for automatically decorating cakes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British artist Mark Merer has completed this pointy studio for himself and his wife in Somerset, UK. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Hiroyuki Tanaka designed the structure of this table based on the roof and pillar systems of ancient temples. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pascal Grasso Architectures of France have installed a landscape of blocks across the ceiling in this monochrome apartment in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two European highways with this design featuring a mirrored sphere hovering over the road junction. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: visitors to an installation by London designer Paul Cocksedge at the Milan showroom of lighting brand Flos could view an animation of a BMW 6 Series car only by putting their heads inside a plastic lamp shade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a ruler by London designer Sebastian Bergne that’s specially adapted for shooting rubber bands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Overlapping arches divide classrooms in this temporary school in Tokyo by Japanese architects Atelier SNS. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture graduates Lee Wilshire and Nick Varey have launched an initiative called Riot Rebuild to help repair homes and businesses in areas of the UK affected by riots in the past week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: Dezeen are at Inside in Barcelona and we’ll be posting the winners of the inaugural Inside awards on Dezeen Wire as they’re announced throughout the day. See the full shortlist here. Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Hugh Pearman has expressed admiration for the mature and understated nature of Dutch practice OMA‘s design for a new headquarters for merchant bank Rothschild on a sensitive site near the Bank of England – Hugh Pearman Pearman suggests that it is “a miracle that a ‘foreign’ firm of architects with a reputation for the outrageous won the 2005 competition to redevelop the site,” but describes their approach to this project as “well-mannered, corporate, svelte, positively self-effacing.” The area’s history demanded a low-key approach and Pearman adds that, although he wishes the building “wasn’t on quite such good behaviour,” its response…

Designer Martin Papcún and Czech architects Atelier SAD want to immerse an upside-down shell of a house into the ground of St. Jakob’s Square in Munich. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: the mobile sauna in Finland we published earlier this week has inspired this archive of projects that feature wood that’s been charred, stained or painted black. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago this week we published photos of the completed the Centro Niemeyer by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Avilés, Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group won a competition to masterplan a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two motorways and our most controversial story featured a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre for a plot beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Marcel Wanders, Matteo Thun & Partners and Starbucks, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Universal Design Studio, Heatherwick Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance and branding agency Brandimage have created a park-like business lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, with branching pathways and tree-shaped lights. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Marc Newson, Universal Design Studio, and SCP Contracts, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Balmond Studio, Rick Mather Architects and more… (more…) View the full article

Surfaces of marble and hardwood spread through the rooms of this renovated apartment in Madrid by Spanish architects Schneider Colao (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Stephanie Bila used bent wood and crystals to create this body jewellery inspired by Japanese baskets for her Central Saint Martins graduate collection. (more…) View the full article

The peeling, brightly painted walls of an abandoned house provide a striking backdrop to this collection of over-dyed handmade rugs by American designer homeware brand ABC Carpet & Home. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: Belgian designer Jens Praet used bronze drapes cast from sheets of cloth to dress these pieces of brass furniture. (more…) View the full article

Adobe employees can play basketball and ping pong inside the software company's new mural-covered Utah campus by San Francisco-based designers Rapt Studio (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Apple has applied for a patent for a slap bracelet with a video display that could be a blueprint for its much-anticipated "iWatch" concept. (more...) View the full article