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Dezeen Wire: 41 projects have been shortlisted for the inaugural Inside awards as part of Inside, the World Festival of Interiors that takes place in Barcelona from 2-4 November 2011. See the full shortlist below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is proud to be online media partner for Inside: World Festival of Interiors taking place in Barcelona on 2-3 November and our readers can save 25% of the price of entering the festival’s awards programme and visiting the festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Jak, the second watch by New York designer Karim Rashid for Italian brand Alessi, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: Sturgess Architecture’s glass viewing platform cantilevered over a Canadian glacier (above, top left) was our most popular story over the last week so we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archives about viewing platforms and observatories. See all the stories » All our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam designer Roeland Otten has designed a collection of 26 chairs, each spelling out one letter of the alphabet. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Maltese studio Chris Briffa Architects have renovated a public toilet in Valletta, Malta, inspired by the facility’s location in what was once a red-light district. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beneath a wide skylight, a white spiralling staircase descends the three storeys of this high school in Lille by French architects Tank. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: these chairs embellished with crystals by London designers Doshi Levien are among work by designers including Nendo, Konstantin Grcic and Neri & Hu, commissioned by Swarovski Crystal Palace and presented in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Folding back these perforated screens reconfigures an apartment that’s combined with a dance and choreography studio near Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These decanters by London designers Kacper Hamilton and Ezgi Turksoy have stoppers made from found glass scraps. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Strips of glazing wrap the walls and roof of a timber waterside summerhouse in Aure, Norway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This farmhouse in Hokkaido by Japanese studio Hiroshi Horio Architects has a pointed observation deck where residents dry herbs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Six shortlisted proposals for the next art installation atop the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square have been unveiled today, including a giant blue cockerel, a cash machine that operates a pipe organ and an enormous model of a battenberg cake (above). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Simon Heijdens has applied a special film to windows at the Art Institute Chicago that creates constantly-changing shadows in response to weather conditions outside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: a team led by Norwegian architects Snøhetta have won a competition to redesign Times Square in New York. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York designer Karim Rashid has renovated the University of Naples subway station in Naples, Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Can’t get enough concrete? Here’s a range of concrete stationery by London designer Magnus Pettersen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: artists Studio Job and designer Pieke Bergmans present a collection of polished bronze objects with blown-glass lamps spilling out of them for Italian gallery Dilmos in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lisbon studio Orgânica Arquitectura have completed a two-storey residence behind the solid stone walls of an otherwise ruined house in Sintra, Portugal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: American furniture brand Knoll have been awarded the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Residents of this small Japanese house can warm their feet in a heated sunken hollow beneath the dining table. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we published an interview with industrial designer Marc Newson about his new camera for Pentax. You can also watch highlights from Fabio Novembre’s talk about his work and inspirations plus changes in the Italian design scene on Dezeen Screen. Our most popular and most controversial story this week featured Daniel Libeskind’s family of curved towers in Singapore and readers were angered by a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China that they claim steals ideas from all of their favourite architects Japanese designers Nendo completed a menswear store that imitates an office while Norwegian architects Eriksen Skajaa created an …

Australian studio b.e. Architecture have completed a house surrounded by a steel and timber timber grid in coastal Victoria, Australia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week we featured a winery in the south of France and a see-through church in Belgium that are both made of Corten, so here’s a roundup of all our stories featuring weathered steel. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin designer Mark Braun talks about his latest work in this next movie from Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article