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London designer Ross Lovegrove has launched this LED pendant lamp for Japanese lighting brand Yamagiwa. (more…) </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

No more searching around for a pencil sharpener in the bottoms of pen pots or backs of drawers: this waste-paper bin by Korean designer Giha Woo has a sharpener in the lid so it’s waiting right where you need to use it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This culture and technology centre based on the shape of a space station is under construction in Vitanje, Slovenia, and was designed by Slovenian firms OFIS Arhitekti, Bevk Perovic Arhitekti, 
Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti and Sadar Vuga Arhitekti. (more…) </img></img> </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

Cologne 2011: German designers Schwab/Panther presented this dining table comprising five wire frames held together under tension as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne in Germany. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This bright green pavilion by Polish students Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska provides spectator stands for a football pitch and a basketball court in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio Designliga created the new interior and branding for this patisserie owned by a Munich punk on a crusade against doilies. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These screens made of sticks covered in Velcro by designers Kawamura-Ganjavian will be used to divide exhibition stands at Designjunction in Milan next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us his photographs of a centre for rescued turtles, dolphins and birds in Barcelona by Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Basel studio Pedrocchi Architekten have designed an extension to this fashion house in Austria with a faceted glass front. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio CLS Architetti have completed this contemporary art gallery set back from the street in Milan, which the architects claim is the largest private gallery in Europe. (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

Here’s another pavilion from the Ruta del Peregrino pilgrimage route (see our earlier story) this time a ring of concrete by Mexican studios Dellekamp and Periférica. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: up next at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space is University of Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson, with his fictional model of a home for early twentieth-century intellectual Walter Benjamin. (more…) </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

Lots of new jobs on our recruitment site Dezeenjobs this week, including positions with Vitra in Switzerland, UXUS in the Netherlands and MAD in China. This is also the last chance to apply for jobs with David Chipperfield Architects, Paul Cocksedge Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has trapped a crystal in a perfume bottle for crystal brand Swarovski. (more…) </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

New York designer Karim Rashid has renovated the University of Naples subway station in Naples, Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: one of our most popular stories this week features a cafe where timber stalactites hang down from an undulating ceiling (top right), so we’ve compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about caves and grottoes. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this game of chess created by designer Florian Hauswirth of Switzerland, pieces that are taken can be stacked to create new pieces with combined abilities. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Upsetters Architects of Japan have completed the interiors for the new offices of visual design studio WOW, located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent the latest issue of Dezeen Mail – take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Unfinished plywood and cement smeared over concrete give a renovated Tokyo apartment the appearance of an elegant building site. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article