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Dezeenwire: Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, and other key Apple staff explain the design of the iPad in a video on Apple’s website. Related story: iPad by Apple </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Australian Institute of Architects has awarded John Wardle its 2020 Gold Medal. Here he picks 12 key projects that have defined his career. Read more View the full article

Michigan studios Rootoftwo and PLY Architecture have housed their conceptual models of future kitchen appliances in a paper teahouse at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Strata tower in south London by BFLS architects has won The Carbuncle Cup, awarded annually by Building Design magazine to the ugliest building completed in the UK during the past 12 months - Building Design Also on Dezeenwire: Jonathan Glancey’s review of the Strata tower </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have got together with Swedish architects Tham & Videgård Arkitekter to give away five copies of their monograph to our readers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Hidehiro Fukuda Architects have completed this house lined with oriented strand board in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. (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

Milan 2011: this new video up on Dezeen Screen features Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn of Design Drift talking about their Fly Light and Fragile Future projects, which is on show this week at Ventura Lambrate in Milan. Watch the movie. See all our movies from Ventura Lambrate 2011. </img></img> </img> </img> View the full article

A swirling labyrinth of cardboard conceals sculptures by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Serpentine Gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors enter a theatre in Huelva, Spain, below a bulky concrete cafe that rests upon backlit glass walls of purple and blue. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Brendan Magennis will be running a micro workshop demonstrating his range of Whackpack Furniture at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some new images of the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi by Zaha Hadid Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium opens tomorrow and will host an eclectic array of designers and brands including Australian company Matilda, who will showcase a selection of products and furniture by designers from Down Under (Dove Stools by Brian Steendyk shown above). Read on for details of other products that will be available at The Temporium including padded pockets for portable devices, indestructible maps and much more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The rear facade of this hillside house by Japanese architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto slides opens to reveal a graduated terrace with a sweeping view of the sea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Glasgow designer Fraser Ross presents his series of plant-like sculptures that react to the presence and movement of people around them. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These masks by German designer Meike Harde cover just the eyes and mouth, replacing the wearer’s features with idealised ones from the media. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: New York and Amsterdam designer Karim Rashid presented this sofa with modular arms and headrests slotted into a high back at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this month. (more…) View the full article

This chicken coop by Swedish architect and designer Torsten Ottesjö is designed to look like the protective wing of a mother hen. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: after this week’s story about the minimal flat-pack For Rest Table designed by Japanese studio SPEAC, we thought we would give you a summary of all the other clever flat-pack furniture in the Dezeen archive. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Guests can lounge amongst orange trees and a water basin in the secluded courtyard of this dreamy Portuguese guesthouse by Vora Arquitectura (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman’s 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). (more…) View the full article

Dutch design lab Studio Roosegaarde has built a dome of metallic flowers that appear to come to life as they sense the presence of visitors inside a church in Lille, France (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Chris Kabel has wrapped this house and studio in Amsterdam with a facade of perforated hexagons that catches the light like a hanging sheet of fabric. (more…) View the full article

Rectangular windows puncture three layers of walls and ceilings in this house in Japan, the fourteenth window in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House N » View the full article

Designer Faye Toogood talks through her installation of 49 workers' coats hanging above the street in the first of this series of movies we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article