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London designer Nick Fraser presents these faceted terracotta plant pots at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we have teamed up with Rafael Viñoly Architects to give away five copies of their new monograph, written by Rafael Viñoly and critic Philip Jodidio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Rem Koolhaas was named Golden Lion winner by the Venice Architecture Biennale and Snøhetta won a competition to redesign Times Square in New York. The Plastiki boat made of plastic bottles was racing towards Sydney on the last leg of its journey across the Pacific to highlight pollution of the seas. Meanwhile the unpopular Strata tower opened in London just as the RIBA published a survey predicting even tougher times for British architects. Mathieu Lehanneur completed the Pompidou Centre’s new education rooms, Tokujin Yoshioka made a 9-metre window from 500 glass prisms and Dezeen published movie interviews with Philippe Malouin and Tomo…

Shimmering panels of stainless steel create the appearance of a rippling lake above the heads of shoppers at a supermarket in Moscow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: visitors were served tea at a heat-sensitive colour-changing table in a pop-up teahouse for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty’s new collection of sculptural furniture and lighting includes upholstered pieces resembling lichen-covered stone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Peter Zumthor’s memorial to suspected witches put to death in Norway captured readers attention, while David Chipperfield was confirmed as architecture curator for this year’s Venice Biennale and rapper Kanye West announced plans to launch a design company. We featured shoes disguised as toucans, swans and ducks, as well as a set of two-faced tableware and an unusual house with a pebble-filled garden and roof terrace behind its walls. Readers debated whether an underground extension to an Austrian museum bore too much of a resemblance to the Louvre in Paris and the new London headquarters for Google engineers were compared to spacecrafts, the Big Brother hou…

Cologne 2012: this range of seating by product designer Karoline Fesser can be extended by attaching extra components between the segments of the cushions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Australian practice March Studio conceived this Melbourne bakery as an oversized breadbasket. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have arrived in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and we have just delivered our Dezeen Book of Ideas to three shops across the city. You can pick one up at: MUST Shop via Olona 6 20123 Milano www.mustshop.it Pigr via Clusone, 6 I-20135 Milano www.pigr.it Spazio Rossana Orlandi Via Matteo Bandello 14 20123 Milano www.rossanaorlandi.com The Dezeen Book of Ideas features a selection of the best ideas for buildings, interiors and products from the pages of Dezeen. The book is also available to order online. www.dezeenbookofideas.com View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Knoll international, Itsu, and Benjamin Hubert Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with David Collins Studio, Fredrickson Stallard, United Designers and more… (more…) View the full article

Five years ago Dezeen travelled to Basel, Switzerland, for the annual Design Miami/Basel fair, where a host of designers including Martino Gamper, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas, Max Lamb and Kiki van Eijk were creating objects and furniture in front of visitors at the height of the fashion for design performances. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Dutch architects MVRDV will create 676 miniature LEGO towers at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this month for an exhibition to promote the inclusion of architectural discourse within European Union development policies. (more…) View the full article

Horizontal grooves create tactile stripes across the plaster-covered walls of this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, by architects GAAGA (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Magnus Pettersen talks about his Locker side table and how he was attracted to east London because it has a “good vibe for any creative industry” in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen for Philips Lumiblade, German designer Daniel Lorch explains the ideas behind his desk lamp, which will be the first to use OLED technology when it goes into production next year. (more...) View the full article

News: the Kenyan government has commenced work on Konza Technology City, a £9.1 billion IT and business hub dubbed "Africa's Silicon Savannah". (more...) View the full article

Walls, shelves and desks are all made from piles of modular blocks at this office in Paris by French studio h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Icelandic designers Katrin Olina and Garðar Eyjólfsson have teamed up to design a collection of circular aluminium tables, contrasting raw and uneven sand-cast surfaces with precise laser-cut legs. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an interior designer/architect with Gundry & Ducker in London, whose projects include the award-winning Dove House extension (shown above). See more stories about Gundry & Ducker on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

News: Dezeen has now been used in product demonstrations at three consecutive presentations by software giant Apple. (more...) View the full article

News: London architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) have been appointed to design a new terminal at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport at Lyon in France. (more...) View the full article

Skincare brand Aesop's new Hamburg store by Belgian studio Vincent Van Duysen Architects features ladder-like shelving made from oak and blackened steel, and a large stone sink (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish architecture studio Ábaton has developed a micro home that can be transported on the back of a lorry and placed almost anywhere (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This machine by Dutch designer Jolene Carlier spurts popcorn from the end of a glass tube into a bright yellow bowl when the snack is ready to eat (+ movie). (more…) View the full article