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Dezeen Wire: the V&A museum in London has purchased work by designers including Nendo, BCXSY and Fredrikson Stallard using a new acquisition fund for contemporary design. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following the riots in the UK this week and our popular recent story about a steel-plated house (bottom left), which one reader though might come in handy in a zombie apocalypse, we’ve compiled a selection of stories about bunkers and other fortified buildings. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’re giving away five copies of the brand-new Dezeen Book of Ideas signed by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critics are having their say on plans unveiled yesterday by Foster + Partners and engineers Halcrow for a new transportation hub in the Thames estuary (see our story on Dezeen). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Blacksheep have completed a pizzeria for celebrity chef Jamie Oliver where a cinema listings board displays the menu and diners can watch chefs at work on vintage televisions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the golden cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects BIG have unveiled proposals for a 150-metre-high skyscraper in downtown Vancouver. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen reader Trevor Cook asked us to make a Pinterest board compiling chairs from the pages of Dezeen. So here it is. See all of our stories about chairs here and follow us on Pinterest here. View the full article

Computer company Microsoft has joined Google and Lego in the trend for offices like playgrounds with their new Vienna base that includes a slide. (more…) View the full article

More concrete from Tokyo: the headquarters of clothing company Neighborhood has a bare concrete and steel interior that reflects the heavy-duty aesthetic of the brand. (more…) View the full article

Design collective Assemble and a team of volunteers have constructed a temporary theatre in West Sussex, England, out of scaffolding, chipboard and plastic pond liner (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German designer Gitta Gschwendtner and Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves have planted a garden on a derelict barge in Bristol Harbour using the kinds of foreign seeds that were once mixed up in ships’ ballast before being dumped in the river (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design students Jaan Evart, Julian Hagen and Daniël Maarleveld took an old inkjet printer apart and replaced its ink cartridge with felt pens to create an experimental printer, which they presented at Vienna Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Courtyards punch through the walls and roof of this bungalow that Japanese studio Kazuya Saito Architects designed for an elderly couple in Sendai (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: whether you fancy the Frenchman, the Millionaire, the Tennis Coach or the Fireman, the characters in this range of designer sex toys have been created in response to stereotypical female fantasies. (more...) View the full article

News: Nokia has become the first major manufacturer to give consumers access to its 3D design files so they can create their own versions of products, according to open design pioneer Ronen Kadushin. (more...) View the full article

This house in Belgium by Ghent studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten is broken down into cubic volumes that are staggered to let more light into each room (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This half-scale model of a spiral staircase by American studio Matter Design is made from concrete treads that slip neatly over each other. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Netherlands-based designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny presented a solid marble chair at the Bagatti Valsecchi exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Wooden walls fade from dark red to yellow ochre on the exterior of this house that curves around an oak tree in Sollentuna, Sweden, by architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Steven Holl has been appointed to rework the campus of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and will add new buildings to offer a "complementary contrast" to structures by Mies van der Rohe and Rafael Moneo. (more…) View the full article

News: Dutch office UNStudio has won a competition to design a world trade centre in the growing city of Wenzhou, China, with proposals for a family of segmented skyscrapers. (more...) View the full article

A skeletal framework that can be covered with screens or climbing plants extends from the gable end of this house in rural Spain, designed by architects Anna and Eugeni Bach (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Europe's largest public library in Birmingham, UK, leads Dezeen Mail issue 167, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 167 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer Monica Förster has collaborated with Spanish company Cosentino Group to form a collection of outdoor candle holders and trays using new synthetic stone material Dekton. (more…) View the full article