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Dezeen Wire: Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi has emailed us her analysis of the gender and race of designers whose portraits we’ve published on our homepage in the last seven months which, she says, shows a predominance of white males. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

When asked to draw up plans for a cycle-hire shop in southern China, Dutch studio NL Architects thought it would be fun to put a velodrome on the roof. (more…) View the full article

This time last year Dezeen was all about the great outdoors with a zoological park on a series of artificial islands, a glass objects made in the desert and Peter Zumthor talking about his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK designers Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five prints of a fictional map that features locations named after film titles. (more…) View the full article

Prints of drawings by London designer Dominic Wilcox are available at Dezeen Super Store as part of London design month. (more…) View the full article

A selection of our Nava watches are now further reduced in our end of summer sale at Dezeen Watch Store. Wherever (above) designed by Denis Guidone tells time in two different time zones at once by featuring two separate hour hands. Now only £60.00 (UK and EU) or £50.00 (rest of world). Buy now » (more…) View the full article

Threads and glue replace joints and screws in the furniture that emerges from a custom-made machine designed by Royal College of Art graduate Anton Alvarez (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects plans to address the housing crisis in Vietnam by introducing modular homes that use cheap local materials and are easy to assemble. (more…) View the full article

News: graphic design studio Barnbrook has defaced a classic David Bowie album and upturned a 1970s photograph of the musician to create the covers of his new album and single. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a call for architects at the Paris and Rome offices of Studio Fuksas, the firm behind the fabric-covered Zenith Music Hall in Strasbourg (pictured above). See more stories about Studio Fuksas on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This renovation of a crumbling 1960s tower block in Paris nicknamed "Alcatraz" topped the architecture category of this year's Designs of the Year Awards and is in the running for the top prize to be announced tonight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: twenty-six cable ties make up this pendant lamp that London studio Vitamin is exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week. (more...) View the full article

News: Italian firm Mario Cucinella Architects has won a competition to design a telecommunications agency headquarters in Algeria with proposals for a fin-like form referencing sand dunes and traditional Mediterranean architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Richard Hutten shaped this circular seat to mimic the way architects denote chairs on floor plans (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British studio MoreySmith delved into the archives of online fashion retailer Asos for textiles patterns to use while refurbishing the brand's London headquarters (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Czech designer Maxim Velčovský presents a series of porcelain vases cast from snow at the London Design Festival, which starts today. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Fuksas Architecture, DSDHA and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, whose campus in London is pictured. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with ECAL, Starbucks Coffee EMEA BV, Factory Fifteen and more... (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Yasutoshi Mifune has created a clothes stand with Y-shaped coat hangers that slot into the base when not in use. (more...) View the full article

The concrete walls inside this house in Poland by Ultra Architects were formed against wooden boards, creating a grainy texture that inverts the surface of the timber-clad facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This black house by German studios Fabian Evers Architecture and Wezel Architektur is raised up over a translucent base where the client's truck can be stored (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A triangular lightwell covered in scale-like shingles extends from the roof of this living room that architect Nuno Melo Sousa has added to a house in Penafiel, Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed an academic campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district comprising six concrete and glass buildings with subtle surface patterns designed to resemble ivy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Apple has teamed up with Ferrari, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz to develop software for cars allowing iPhones to be connected up and controlled via a second screen in the entertainment system. (more...) View the full article

Two of Dezeen Watch Store's most popular pieces by Swedish brand Daniel Wellington are now available in a smaller size (+ buy now at Dezeen Watch Store). (more...) View the full article

A precast staircase is one of several concrete elements that Mexican studio Warm Architects has added through the interior and exterior of this house in Cancún, Mexico (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article