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Milan 2011: this white plastic chair shaped like a scull and designed by French studio Pool is on show as part of the Nouvelle Vague exhibition of French design in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Archive: we’ve published a number of stories recently on projects in Shenzhen, including the series of movies we filmed at the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture Biennale. Here’s a roundup of all of the stories from the Dezeen archives. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </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 a car made of cartilage, a car park in a cafe and fashion accessories for the blind, plus all the best work from this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show. 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 Dezeen Mail issue #77 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

Dezeen and designjunction invite you to a party at designjunction, Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA from 7.30pm on Friday 23 September. The evening will include Pecha Kucha organised by Modus, with designers Shin Azumi, Luke Pearson, Dominic Wilcox, Dezeen’s Marcus Fairs and more. See you there! Read more about designjunction here and more about the London Design Festival here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A yellow wall of storage divides this Portuguese apartment by architects Pedro Varela & Renata Pinho (photographs by José Campos). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

OMA have completed a new building for the school of architecture at Cornell University in New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Matali Crasset presents a series of vessels shaped like horns, speaker components and loudhailers at Mica Gallery near Rennes in France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: Dutch designer Bertjan Pot showed this chair made of a tennis net at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The elevated garden of this Singapore house by architects Formwerkz creates a huge canopy to shelter bedrooms beneath. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Hackney designer Lee Broom will launch crystal light bulbs cut like whiskey decanters at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Danish architects 3XN have completed a riverside cultural centre in Norway with glass hills outlined on its facade. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: architect Frank Gehry has inserted a theatre into the base of tower in New York City. (more…) View the full article

Vertical gardens, secret courtyards and mist-spraying pools were in the news this time last year: a forested skyscraper was proposed for Nantes in France (above) and a foliage-clad house was completed in Brussels (below). (more…) View the full article

London studio Logical Art has created a series of papery necklaces with delicate cut-out patterns (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the A’ Design Award is now accepting architecture, interior and design project submissions for this year’s competition. (more…) View the full article

Architecture magazines are ruining architecture, Brooklyn-based artist and architect Vito Acconci told Dezeen at Vienna Design Week, stating that “architecture is the opposite of an image”. (more…) View the full article

Designer Gitta Gschwendtner talks about making her Bodge Bench for the Stepney Green Design Collection and east London’s “great creative atmosphere” in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

French studio FREAKS freearchitects has renovated an apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, once the address of Napoleon I, so the architects decided to dress up as the former emperor for the photo shoot (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Walls of books fold around a wooden staircase in this renovation and extension to a north London home by Hackney studio Platform 5 Architects. (more...) View the full article

Today we're launching the Dezeen and MINI World Tour, which will see us visiting eight cities to discover the most exciting new talents, the hottest trends and the most important themes in architecture and design in 2013. Find out more and watch the movie » View the full article

Product news: here's a slideshow of new furniture and pendant lamps that New Zealand furniture company Resident will present in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a chair with armrests that stretch outwards like limbs for Danish brand &tradition. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto was in the spotlight this week, first for the opening of his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and then for saying that unpaid internships in Japan are a "nice opportunity". Read on for more of the week's architecture and design news, plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

News: architecture firm Snøhetta has been named winner in a competition to design the new Paris headquarters for French newspaper Le Monde. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Thames & Hudson to give readers the chance to win one of five compendiums of work by Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article