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Toyota's latest electric LQ concept car satisfies the "human need to be engaged emotionally" with an on-board artificial intelligence agent named Yui. Read more View the full article

Fernando Mastrangelo, Lina Ghotmeh, Ashiesh Shah and Sanna Åkerlund Gebeyehu speak to Marcus Fairs about the power of design in this talk filmed by Dezeen for Aritco in Dubai. Read more View the full article

An early 1950s dwelling in the Pacific Northwest that was originally built for cartoonist Irwin Caplan has received a sensitive refurbishment by American firm SHED. Read more View the full article

New York architects Todd Rouhe and Maria Ibañez de Sendadiano have completed a holiday home in the Catskills, filled with designs from Danish retailers Hay and Vipp. Read more View the full article

Copenhagen's The Audo is a hybrid hotel and furniture showroom says Menu founder Bjarne Hansen, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards. Read more View the full article

Henning Larsen has revealed plans for The Arctic University Museum of Norway, which will evoke a cascade of glass beacons on the coast of Tromsø. Read more View the full article

Floating Island Restaurant by C+ Architects features a glazed dining room on stilts cantilevering from a hillside overlooking mountains in Chongquing, China. Read more View the full article

Will Gamble Architects has updated a house in west London with an extension modelled on a Japanese tea house. Read more View the full article

Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh designed Towers Road House as "a sculpture to live within", with high concrete walls that arc under a disc-shaped zinc roof. Read more View the full article

London fashion designer Lu Flux has launched her autumn/winter collection 2010, which features salvaged textiles and fairytale characters. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

H&P Architects has designed the AgriNesture house in Vietnam to have a large space for agriculture so that its owners can grow their own food. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: Dutch designer Roderick Vos will present a shelving unit designed to reference Art Deco skyscrapers in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American practice Olson Kundig Architects are renovating a historic dock building in the port city of Tacoma, reinforcing the existing structure and suspending boats from a newly added roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish industrial design firm Kibisi launch these minimal headphones today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out a special issue of Dezeenmail with details of all our activities during the London Design Festival, starting on Saturday, including our @dezeen concierge service. Check out the newsletter for more details » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At Interieur 2010 in Kortrijk this week Amsterdam architects UNStudio present a set of two tables that incorporate upholstered seats. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects StudioGreenBlue have inserted concrete bars behind the glazed wall in this family home in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers Werner Aisslinger, Mathias Hahn and the [D3] Contest winners live on stage from 12.30 in the The Ramazzotti D3 Lounge at imm Cologne today, as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents series. The interviews will be broadcast on Dezeen at a later date. More info plus the full schedule in our earlier story. See films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The fifth in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents features designer German designer Stefan Diez talking about factories, working conditions, mittens for motorcycles and sex tourism. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami/Basel has announced that Asif Khan, Mischer’Traxler and Studio Juju are the winners of the 2011 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this Dezeen movie London interior designer Linda Morey Smith, one of the judges of the Inside awards, talks about designing the headquarters of drinks brand Red Bull. Watch the movie » Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Nicolai Ouroussoff, outgoing architecture critic at the New York Times, reviews the Central China Television building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas of OMA: “The forms are a reworking of classical perspective; the irregular structure is an attack on Modernist ideas about structural purity”. Read Ouroussoff’s review | Read Dezeen’s August 2008 story about the CCTV building (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office tend to design houses with unconventional windows. Here’s their latest one in Kyoto. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week OMA were in the news with the opening of a new exhibition of their work at the Barbican in London and the completion of their Maggie’s cancer caring centre in Glasgow. We were given an private guided tour of the exhibition by Rem Koolhaas and interviews with other OMA partners will appear soon on Dezeen Screen. Apple co-founder Steve jobs died this week at the age of 56. Meanwhile, Zaha Hadid received the RIBA Stirling Prize for an academy in south London, provoking a mixed reaction from architecture critics and Elle Decoration editor, Michelle Ogundehin sparked a lively debate on the morality of furniture copies in an article posted on her blog. …