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DMY Berlin 2010: Portuguese designer Rui Alves of My Own Super Studio presented this herd of benches at last week’s DMY Berlin. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: at his shop in London this week Jasper Morrison presents this telephone he’s designed for Swiss brand Punkt. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: furniture brand Emeco launched a version of its famous Navy chair made of 111 recycled plastic cola bottles at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Mint Gallery in London, Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo talks about Growing Vases, an installation of hand-blown glass lights with the blower’s pipe still attached. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stuttgart architects (se)arch have completed a house in Germany with an exposed concrete base and cedar shingle-clad upper walls (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto will present this series of brass bowls for Swedish brand Skultuna at Stockholm Furniture Fair next week. (more…) </img></img> </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

The winners of the UK graduate exhibition New Designers Part 2 awards were announced at the opening of the show on Wednesday night, with Tortie Hoare being awarded the New Designer of the Year prize for her boiled leather furniture (above). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: French design brand Ligne Roset have launched a sponge-like sofa by designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec at the imm cologne fair in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </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

Estonian firm Salto Architecs have completed a sports hall in Tartu, Estonia, where the concave rectangular structure appears to be draped over the undulating landscape. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Czech architects Chalupa Architekti have won a competition to design the new Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC, USA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brussels studio Label Architecture have transformed the interior of a family house in Brussels, Belgium, by covering some walls in rough, black-stained oriented strand board and painting others white. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian office Tissellistudioarchitetti have completed an apartment block in Cesena, Italy, built in long layers linked by ramps. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian design studio Decolieu have completed the renovation of an apartment in Moscow by adding a low curved ceiling made of lime and wax. (more…) </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

We’ve teamed up with illustration magazine WRAP to give away a free copy of their first issue with the next 100 orders from Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Delft studio WAM Architecten have completed a hotel that looks like a pile of houses in Zaandam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: German designer Stefan Diez launched Eugene, a veneered plywood lounge chair for German brand e15, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: designjunction opens tomorrow at 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: process and outcome are literally given equal weighting in this installation of work by Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler, shown on weighing scales at Wait and See shop in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Wolf D. Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au has launched a scathing attack on the Venice Architecture Biennale, claiming it’s “no longer about lively discussion and criticism of topics in contemporary architecture” but places too much importance on celebrity. (more…) View the full article

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

Google's vice president of hardware design Ivy Ross has created an office building for her Silicon Valley team that is arranged around an atrium, skylight and staircase. Read more View the full article

Here’s another student project that involves filling stitched structures with concrete (see Grompies by AA students in our earlier story), this time by architecture students Kyle A. Sturgeon, Chris Holzwart and Kelly Raczkowski from the University of Michigan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article