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Beijing Design Week 2011: here are some pictures of an exhibition curated by Beijing Design Week‘s creative director Aric Chen, where the childhood possessions of a Chinese actress were arranged beside illustrations of piecharts and explosions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: stripy monochrome triangles are folded into facets around the walls and ceiling of this church hall in Linz, Austria, to create a cavernous interior. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A suspended ceiling folds erratically around the uppermost apartment of a Lisbon block that Portuguese architect Jorge Mealha has refurbished. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this interview filmed at the Italian Cultural Institute in London yesterday, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks to architect David Chipperfield, director of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. Chipperfield speaks about Common Ground, his theme for the biennale, and gives his views on the contemporary architecture scene, comparing architects to “perfume brands at Duty Free, on a pedestal, singular and isolated” and says: “[Architects] don’t have common ground between ourselves and the public”. The Italian Cultural Institute was the venue of Friday’s press conference to launch the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which takes place from 29 August to …

Competition: bi-monthly architecture magazine Architectural Design (AD) is now available on the iPad and we’ve teamed up with them to give away a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. (more…) View the full article

A dozen layers of concrete planters create a vertical garden on the facade of this house in Ho Chi Minh City by Vietnamese architects Vo Trong Nghia. (more…) View the full article

Construction is underway on a Olympic-themed museum in Tianjin, China, comprising five connected rings. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: furniture designers including Katie Walker (above), Rebecca Scott and Charlene Mullen will exhibit at Decorex International 2012, which takes place in London from 23 to 26 September 2012. (more…) View the full article

Portuguese studio Comoco Architects have converted a warehouse in Coimbra once used for storing industrial materials into an indoor football ground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid for Michigan State University opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A secluded balcony surrounded by timber protrudes from the clean white facade of this house in Osaka, Japan, by architect Ido Kenji (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shimmering aluminium skin and a gaping mouth give this ice rink in Belgium by architects L'Escaut the look of a whale (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week Dezeen is in Cape Town so here's a steampunk-inspired coffee shop in the city by South African designer Haldane Martin. (more...) View the full article

Brooklyn-based Caliper Studio has renovated the former home and studio of American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, adding a rooftop sculpture garden and a pair of "eyebrow-shaped" skylights. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the first of a series of films recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan last month, MINI head of design Anders Warming explains the thinking behind the brand's presentation during the furniture fair while Johanna Agerman Ross, editor-in-chief of Disegno magazine, gives her opinion on the highlights of the world's most important design week. (more...) View the full article

Product news: a perforated door slides across the front of these simple sideboards by Danish designer Simon Legald for Normann Copenhagen. (more...) View the full article

News: six buildings have been shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize, including the overhaul of Sheffield's notorious Park Hill housing estate (above), an elliptical chapel and a museum that mimics volcanic formations. (more...) View the full article

Interstellar comets become vehicles for space travel between the different planetary systems of our galaxy in this conceptual design by New York-based Clouds Architecture Office (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate David Steiner has turned his house into a factory by adapting household appliances to create a range of tableware and lighting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian tile manufacturer Refin has launched its latest collection of porcelain tiles in London and Bologna. (more...) View the full article

This labyrinth-like fashion store in Hangzhou, China, by 3Gatti Architecture Studio features a rotating toilet and a hidden love room "equipped with bar and condoms" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2014: a grid of thin wooden strips supports the surface of this table by German designer Ruben Beckers to make it extremely lightweight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Weathered steel screens cast chequerboard patterns of sunlight and shadow across the internal surfaces of this house near Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Home rental website Airbnb has opened an office in Dublin with a reception area modelled on an Irish pub designed by local architects Heneghan Peng (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Nao Tamura drew on experiences from the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami to create an installation of suspended mobiles, intended to evoke a sense of fragility and harmony with nature. (more...) View the full article