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VDF has teamed up with Terreform One to bring together authors Mitch Joachim, Julia Watson, Eran Chen and Paul Miller in a live discussion about sustainable design in a post-coronavirus world. Read more View the full article

Moxon Architects has restored and converted a listed building and a former police station in Fraserburgh, Scotland, adding a contemporary extension clad in weathering steel. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn design-build studio Desciencelab has overhauled a gabled house in Montauk on the furthest tip of Long Island with greyed cladding and teak interiors. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Richard Hutten has designed a postage stamp that consists of a tiny eight-page book for Dutch postal company Royal TNT Post.(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Dezeen are in Milan today where the design shows are underway, including this pavilion covered in wooden windmills by Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Dezeen podcast: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Dyson in this podcast recorded at the UK launch of Dyson’s new floor-standing blade-less fans. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: in this next film in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, Cologne gallerist Gabrielle Ammann explains how she came to exhibit and sell design, the need to categorize people and whether she would prefer to keep a Ron Arad chair or sculpture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival: at the Sunbury Workshops Open Studios in east London next week designer Alex Hulme will present this calculator that has two programmable LCD buttons for storing useful figures. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers Stefan Diez, Marco Susani and Harald Gründl 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

Austrian firm GS Architects have completed this black cantilevered office building in Graz, Austria. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: German designers Ett La Benn show these vases made of biodegradable cellulose as part of Poetry Happens at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amanda Levete Architects have sent us these images of their proposals for a new cultural centre in Lisbon with a roof that spirals around from the existing riverfront pathway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ligne Roset Westend hosts an exhibition of their latest collection called Telling Tales to coincide with the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: London designers PostlerFerguson have created a temporary Viennese coffee house for Vienna Design Week, which continues until Sunday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in an interview with Farah Nayeri for Bloomberg Businessweek, architect Rem Koolhaas describes the European Union as “an incomplete machine” and claims that it will “disintegrate” unless political leaders complete the task of integration begun when the EU was founded. Koolhaas also talks about working in China, the global workforce currently inhabiting the countryside and his former employee, Zaha Hadid, who he says was “a very independent and massively talented person from the beginning.” Dezeen spoke to Rem Koolhaas and other partners from his practice OMA at the opening of OMA/Progress, an exhibition at the Barbican art gallery in London. You can see t…

Dezeen Watch Store: Michael Young’s brand new Hacker watch is now available at Dezeen Watch Store, both online and at our Christmas shop The Temporium from tomorrow until 24 December at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen in Isreal: these high-heeled shoes disguised as birds are by designer Kobi Levi, whose footwear resembling inflatable sex dolls caused a stir with our readers back in November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Sybarite have fitted out this boutique in Bengaluru, India, with a modular system of hourglass-shaped shelves (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two guest suites in the grounds of a ruined Victorian house in Kent are separated by a walkway cast from concrete set against rough planks of wood. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is now available to download, featuring interviews filmed by Dezeen with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection. Download it free from the app store here. In this film we’ve compiled extracts focussing on how design has shaped the way we listen to music over the last century, including iconic devices like the Ecko AD-65 radio from the early 1930s, SK5 Phonosuper from Braun in the 1950s and Sony’s experiments from Walkman to Discman to MiniDisc towards the end of the twentieth century. (more…) View the full article

London design studio Yang:Ripol have remixed humble stationery items to create a pen that doubles as a pencil case and an eraser-capped pencil with its own brush. (more…) View the full article

Zig-zagging pathways lead to viewing platforms perched high in the Norwegian mountains in this visitor facility designed by Reiulf Ramstad Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A staircase is extruded from the wooden shelves of a bookcase at this renovated house in Tuscany by Italian architects Sundaymorning and Massimo Fiorido Associati. (more…) View the full article

Our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs has been redesigned and is now live! We’ve refreshed the look and feel of the site with a new colour and font, bigger headlines and text and a number of new features including a Job of the Week slot. Otherwise the site retains the same simple, clear navigation as before and most importantly, the price of posting a job ad has not changed: it still costs just £100 to post an ad for 28 days! As well as being posted on Dezeen Jobs, positions are promoted via Twitter, in our feeds, in our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter and our Dezeen Jobs round-up every Monday on Dezeen. We believe www.dezeenjobs.com is the world’s most effective architecture…