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Edoardo Tresoldi has combined sound, projections, landscaping and fabric with his signature wire-mesh sculptures for Gharfa, a large site-specific pavilion in Riyadh. Read more View the full article

Science, aeronautics and NASA inspired the Very Polite Agency's packaging design for ALT, a liquid cannabis product for people who want a mind-expanding rather than purely medicinal high. Read more View the full article

Monochrome interiors create a minimal backdrop to artworks by William Klein, Ellen von Unwerth and Bill Viola inside this renovated loft in central London. Read more View the full article

London-based Jan Hendzel Studio has developed a series of valet stands for a renovated hotel in Hertfordshire, England, featuring hand-crafted details that make each one unique. Read more View the full article

Rhode Island School of Design student Yangyang Ding has created a series of metal instruments to help Mandarin speakers pronounce difficult English sounds. Read more View the full article

For her collaboration with VDF, singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe has written an essay about the power of music to transform lives, particularly during difficult times. Read more View the full article

Today VDF has teamed up with Schloss Hollenegg for the virtual opening of an exhibition exploring the wilder side of nature, including a live tour of the historic castle later today. Read more View the full article

Milliken has launched its latest flooring collections at VDF products fair, including Social Factor carpet tiles that encourage physical distancing in the workplace. Read more View the full article

Work is about to start on a pedestrian bridge between the historic centre of Alicante to the beach across a busy road, designed by Spanish achitects bgstudio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The AHEAD Americas awards is announcing its winners today in a video ceremony broadcast as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the awards programme. View the full article

Milan 2010: Eindhoven designer Kiki van Eijk presents a collection of wooden furniture with ceramic drawers for the Zuiderzee Museum at the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A table with interlocking branch-like legs by design collective Outofstock has been put into production by French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This building in Lyon by Paris designer Cyrille Druart houses motor-racing simulators. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This long narrow house in Okinawa, Japan, by Japanese studio Shinichi Ogawa & Associates is divided lengthways into a courtyard and living space. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

TDO Architecture have created this doll’s house with ramps linking all floors together. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this is another movie filmed by Gwenael Lewis for Canadian lighting company Bocci, showing Canadian craftsmen blowing glass for the 28 Series chandelier designed by Omer Arbel. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Indistrial designer Konstantin Grcic presents these tables painted to look like Formula 1 cars at Gallerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some new images of the Apple campus by architects Foster + Partners, to be built in Cupertino, California. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designers CuldeSac have designed this high-chair with removable legs and accessories so that it’s still useful when the child starts to grow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the winning designs in 12 of the completed project categories at the World Architecture Festival awards have been announced. The winners were selected from over 700 entries from 66 countries around the world and will now go forward to compete for the overall prize of World Building of the Year 2011, to be announced tomorrow together with the prizes for Structural Project of the Year 2011 and Future Project of the Year 2011. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie shows how French studio FREAKS freearchitects stuck huge dimension arrows onto the facade of a building by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Jean Prouvé in Paris in a bid to educate the general public about the importance of architecture. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: sports brand Nike have created a range of running shoes with knitted uppers made in one piece. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week a group of urban climbers revealed that they’d secretly scaled the 309-metre-high exterior of Renzo Piano’s London skyscraper the Shard and J. Mayer H. completed a crooked concrete police station that one reader thought was actually worth getting arrested for. Here at Dezeen we’ve been preparing for our relocation to Milan next week, where we’ll be filming a daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, filled with news from new design epicentre MOST, interviews with designers and journalists, plus coverage of events elsewhere in the city. We’ve already published a few of our favourite projects that will appear at the fair, which include a table that’s al…

Five years ago Foster + Partners unveiled ambitious proposals for a “zero carbon, zero waste” development in Abu Dhabi to be planned like an ancient walled city and OMA designed a Death Star-like convention centre, also for the United Arab Emirates. Andrea Salvetti showed chairs that look like nests, cupboards resembling giant logs, super-sized eggs and a giant filigree mushroom. We also showed our readers what we thought might have been the best new chair from Milan and published a set of bird houses designed to look like little churches. In London, students from the Royal College of Art exhibited knuckledusters that leave messages on skin, plates for arguing couples t…

Slideshow: this art gallery in Seoul by New York architects SO-IL is draped in a veil of chain mail. (more…) View the full article