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Design has not been valued in Africa for decades, says Nigerian interior designer Titi Ogufere, who has launched a design week in Lagos in a bid to change that. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen are proud to be media partners for designjunction, which will take place at Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Italian-Singaporean studio Lanzavecchia + Wai presented a collection of lights made of fabric stretched over steel wire frames in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors can clamber inside a stretchy web of netting installed by For Use/Numen at Belgian gallery Z33 this summer. (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

Shanghai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some interior shots of the Danish Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faeces, electric eels and fruit would power conceptual communities designed by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Catrina Stewart. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition featuring architectural compositions made of household objects by Canadian artist Dave Trautrimas will open at LE Gallery in Toronto later this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Patkau Architects of Canada created this group of temporary plywood skating shelters huddled together by a skating trail along a frozen river in Winnipeg. (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

At DMY Berlin this week designer Daniel Lorch will present a chair made by splitting a steel tube and peeling back the legs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed another topical robot-shaped survival suit, this time intended to protect people from radiation leaking from nuclear power stations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre is at Shanghai Expo 2010 this week and will be sending us some of the first photos of the completed pavilions, starting with the Spanish Pavilion by Miralles Tagliabue (EMBT). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Norwegian firm Snøhetta have been selected to design an extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – more details in press release below (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has completed a pavilion in an overgrown field in Almere, Netherlands, with plans that follow existing trails and paths across the site. (more…) </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 …

Visitors to this timber tea house sit beneath a woven rope dome with a gilded skylight and a hanging teapot in the middle. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design student Jiyoung Seo has created a little shelf with a flap of silicon to keep books in place. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have announced Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Foster + Partners and Snøhetta as the finalists in a competition to design an expansion to the museum - SFMoMA </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, MAD in Beijing and Hussein Chalayan in London, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Fosters + Partners, B&B Italia and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More from the Stefan Strumbel’s Home Sweet Home show at Circleculture Gallery in Berlin (see our earlier story), this time cuckoo clocks representing violence, death and sex. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of the Republic of Korea Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Mass Studies. (more…) </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

Architecture studio SO-IL has designed a major installation for Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology that creates a new public route through the middle of the Amanda Levete-designed building via a secret rear entrance. Read more View the full article