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At DMY Berlin this week Berlin designers NOI present their first collection of furniture, comprising simple wooden trestles and sewn Tyvek pockets. (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

Eva Jiřičná, Richard Meier and John Pawson have been added to a growing list of architects creating designs for Oaks Prague, a major new housing and hotel scheme near the Czech capital (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London studio Aberrant Architecture designed a city of wooden towers for an exhibition at Liverpool’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the V&A museum in London has purchased work by designers including Nendo, BCXSY and Fredrikson Stallard using a new acquisition fund for contemporary design. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a movie by architectural photographer David Vintiner of vintiner/ap about Folly for a Flyover, a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert will launch a collection of LED lamps shaped like canoe paddles in Milan next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish bicycle company Biomega launch five city bikes in their 2010 collection for sports brand Puma today. (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

Concrete wedges project out from the facade of this single-storey residence near Madrid by Spanish architecture studio A-Cero. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured architect: David Chipperfield is our featured architect at the moment, having just been announced as this year’s winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture (see our Dezeenwire story). Browse all Dezeen’s stories about him in this special category. Featured architect: David Chipperfield Above photograph is by Martin Godwin </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brussels firm 51N4E have converted the industrial buildings at this former coal mine in Winterslag, Belgium, into a cultural centre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group have designed a technology centre for Taipei, Taiwan, comprising a cube-shaped structure with round voids cut from its volume. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A row of heritage-listed townhouses in central London is now home to the Inhabit hotel, which Holland Harvey has designed to have relaxed, Scandi-inspired interiors. Read more 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

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

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including the new Apple headquarters by Foster + Partners, interiors that are styled like construction sites and an infinite clothes shop. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another football training centre (see Soweto training ground in our earlier story), this time a football academy for the junior team of FC Basel 1893 in Switzerland by Swiss studio Luca Selva Architekten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Dezeen is partnering with Inside, the World Festival of Interiors that takes place in Barcelona from 2-4 November, and we’ve filmed a series of interviews with the judges for the festival’s awards programme: interior designers Andre Fu, Ilse Crawford, Linda Morey Smith and Paul Priestman. In the first film, they talk about the kind of projects they’re hoping to see entered for the awards. The deadline for entering the awards is 30 June: www.insidefestival.com. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger of Studio Aisslinger has completed a small mountainside mobile living unit in Ritten, Italy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Karen Ryan has assembled objects and furniture found in American thrift stores and warehouses to make five new compositions. (more…) </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

Milan 2010: french designer Mathieu Lehanneur presented a bed for curing insomnia in the Zona Tortona district of Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images of a visitors centre with walkways built through and around a castle in Fundão, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Comoco Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Graphic designer Milton Glaser has created this poster to raise money towards Architecture for Humanity’s efforts to rebuild the Tohoku region of Japan, following its devastation by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article