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As our Virtual Design Festival reaches the halfway point, founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs selects his highlights from the most ambitious project Dezeen has ever attempted. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Bruce J Graham, the architect who designed America’s tallest building, Sears Tower in Chicago, has died at the age of 84 – Press Association </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Over a quarter of black architects in the UK deal with racism in the workplace as discrimination becomes "widespread", a survey from the Architects' Journal has shown. Read more View the full article

If you’re in Milan tomorrow (Tuesday 13 April) for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, join us for our DezeenBarBasso party at Bar Basso, presented by Wyborowa Exquisite wodka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

English landscape architect Heather Wing of the Wayward Plant Registry has transformed a disused site in Bankside, London, into a public garden with the introduction of apple trees, allotments, follies and a table-tennis table in a skip. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is another project from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, this time Israeli student Sharona Merlin has designed a flattened cup and saucer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This auditorium enclosed by a red-lacquered shell is part of a new wing at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanei di Roma designed by French architect Odile Decq and due to open later this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a transparent mobile phone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Chris Kabel has created a circular bench made from one 10 metre-long wooden beam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Zealand architects Gascoigne Associates have completed this Japanese restaurant lined with wooden slats in Auckland, New Zealand. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest video up on Dezeen Screen is this interview we filmed with car designer Nader Faghihzadeh of car brand BMW at the launch of the new 6 Series Convertible in Spain last month. Faghihzadeh, who created the vehicle’s exterior, explains the design concept and talks about the process of designing a car. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This movie by Protein features supermodel Erin O’Connor wearing a dress that incorporates a catalytic converter. This is the first part of a collaboration between designer Helen Storey and chemist Tony Ryan to create clothes that filter pollution from the air. Music is by Radiohead. Watch the movie » Above image is by Adam Mufti </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio Factory Fifteen was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 2011 in the architectural film/animation category. Called The Simulation, it’s the first movie in a two-part series called The Golden Age. Nicholls made the series while studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture alongside his colleague Kibwe Tavares, author of the Robots of Brixton movie we published earlier this week. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Ai Weiwei covered the floor of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with porcelain sunflower seeds and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister talked to us about his work at Vienna Design Week. David Kohn Architects installed an event space called Skyroom on the roof of the Architecture Foundation’s London offices and an underground railway station with criss-crossing concrete beams reminded our readers of a sci-fi computer game. Meanwhile, British car manufacturer Aston Martin announced that they would launch a luxury compact city car and Copenhagen-based KiBiSi designed a furniture range resembling sand bags. Structural engineer Cecil Balmond lef…

Dezeen Wire: a pop-up shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, made from renovated shipping containers is being threatened with legal action by a British developer for copyright infringement - Stuff.co.nz The owners of Boxpark, a development in London that will be open over the Christmas period and claims to be “the world’s 1st pop-up mall,” have accused Christchurch’s City Mall of copying their container pop-up format but City Mall have responded by saying that the ideas do not look alike and that their project, which reopened on Saturday, was completed first. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View …

A sprawling grid of timber cubes covers the ceiling of a restaurant in Singapore by designers Brewin Concepts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cavernous holes in the courtyard of three museum buildings in Graz, Austria, lead underground into a new, shared entrance by Spanish architects Nieto Sobejano and local firm eep architekten (photographs by Roland Halbe). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clothes and accessories are ensconced in an elaborate lattice of wood at an Amsterdam boutique designed by Dutch studio Doepel Strijkers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The open mouth of this steel-clad house in Fukuoka, Japan, by architects Case-Real reveals its interior to anyone strolling by. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: the concrete walls of this church in Tenerife are roughly lined with crushed volcanic rocks. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: London designers 00:/ recently showed visitors to Milan’s most famous department store how to construct a wooden house from a downloaded kit of parts. (more…) View the full article

A footwear company in Thailand says it has developed a way to bio-engineer stingray skin to produce customised trainers – although the claim has been met with scepticism from scientists and outrage from animal rights campaigners. (more…) View the full article

Competition: continuing our series of features on new publishing ventures, Dezeen are giving readers a chance to win a copy of Useless: Critical Writing in Art and Design written by Royal College of Art graduates. (more…) View the full article

An oak capsule houses a raised living room and workspace inside this renovated apartment in Moscow by Russian architect Peter Kostelov (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cornices are commonly used to decorate the junctions between walls and ceilings, but at the new Boston shop for skin and haircare brand Aesop, cornices cover the walls and form shelves for the brand’s signature brown bottles. (more…) View the full article