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Milan 2011: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune unveiled this mobile phone design at Superstudio Piu at Tortona Design Week in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect David Adjaye has completed the renovation of this Art Deco building in London, providing six storeys of office accommodation. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami/Basel 2011: here are some images of installations at Design Miami/Basel by this year’s W Hotels Designers of the Future award winners Studio Juju, Asif Khan and mischer’traxler. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These photographs by Julien Lanoo show a French driving-test centre by Samuel Delmas Architectes, which is camouflaged to look like a fence. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A boomerang-shaped museum in Mexico is balanced on stilts and stabilised in the air by tensile cables, allowing it to bridge a road and cantilever over a lake. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eleven designers including Tomás Alonso, Philippe Malouin and Study O Portable took the fictional character of a lady called Vera as their muse and presented the results in a west London basement during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: Chinese architects NHDRO have picked up the award for overall winner at the inaugural Inside awards for a hotel inside the abandoned former headquarters of the Japanese army in Shanghai. You can check out all nine category winners here or read more about this project in our earlier story on Dezeen. Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full a…

Architects CZWG have completed a bronzed, hexagonal library that leans across a dock in south London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo architects Naoi have completed a three-tiered woodland summerhouse at Japanese holiday spot Nasu Kogen. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sarajevo fashion designer Ljiljana Majkić presents her Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection of garments with exaggerated geometric silhouettes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: designer David Weeks has teamed up with Belgian design brand Quinze & Milan to present a giant version of his Cubebot toys for New York producers Areaware at MOST in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Spanish architects Miquel Mariné Núñez and César Rueda Boné have transformed an abandoned market hall in Aragon into a children’s centre with a slide connecting its floors. (more…) View the full article

Rhode Island School of Design graduate George Coffin has designed a collection of products that add twists to familiar objects, including this watering can with a bent wood handle. There are also plungers combined with ornately turned handles or a walking stick, and more walking sticks with rubber wedges at the bottom to form door stops. Pieces of plastic bottles have been used to cast concrete fittings for pendant lamps and the cord of a coordinating desk lamp is held in place by notches in a counterbalanced wooden frame. Here are a couple of lines of explanation from Coffin: I’m a recent graduate from the Furniture Design department at The Rhode Island School …

Movie: digital graphics company Crystal CG has sent us its animated flights over the city that TV broadcasters are using to zoom between venues for the London 2012 Olympics. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of architecture and design critic Will Wiles‘ novel about how interior design affects the way we live, called Care of Wooden Floors. (more…) View the full article

Hackney studio Gort Scott used locally quarried stone for the rugged grey walls of this house on the Isle of Man, UK (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Spanish design brand BD Barcelona Design has commissioned designer Jaime Hayon to hand-paint 40 unique vases in celebration of its 40th birthday. (more…) View the full article

Sloping meadows and woodland thickets are all that surrounds this boxy concrete house in the mountains of western Austria by local studio OLKRÜF (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Pools of water separate offices from archives at a new building for the National Archives of France by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A nineteenth century prison in the Netherlands has been converted into a boutique hotel where guests sleep in the former cells. (more...) View the full article

Glass silhouettes of male and female figures reach out to each other across the tiled floor of this Milan fashion boutique by Italian designer Fabio Novembre. (more...) View the full article

News: JDS Architects has unveiled plans for an M-shaped office building with green terraces in the north of Turkey's largest city. (more...) View the full article

New work by the Campana Brothers including a cabinet made from the skin of the world's largest freshwater fish is on show at gallery Friedman Benda in New York (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

UK designer Thomas Heatherwick has released images of a technology education building under construction at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

This arched timber treehouse by German architect Andreas Wenning is supported by a network of steel joists and provides a guesthouse for an old cottage (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article