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VDF products fair: The Val collection by Konstantin Grcic for Swiss manufacturer Laufen consists of flexible and dynamic designs that rethink the proportions of bathrooms. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week furniture brand Vitra present a strap designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena to be wrapped around the body and used instead of a chair. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Norwegian designers Vibeke Skar and Ida Noemi Vidal presented ceramic pendant lights with embossed surfaces in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Spanish architects are still suffering most in Europe as a result of the economic crisis according to a report by Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision. See below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured category: for the summer season we’ve created a new architecture category, grouping together all our stories about pavilions. Happy browsing! Featured category: pavilions Above: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel. Photograph is by Julien Lanoo </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has completed this house on a sloping site in Ibiza with a jumble of cascading terraces supported on stilts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: designer Thomas Heatherwick is to be awarded the London Design Medal 2010 at a ceremony in London tonight. See press release below. See all our stories about Heatherwick » See all our stories about London Design Festival 2010 » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Trees sprout out of the rainbow-coloured cubes that make up the facade of this bank in northern Tokyo – the fourth building that architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has designed for Sugamo Shinkin (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

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Dezeenwire: New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorne discusses German graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who developed the influential Isotype system of graphic symbols in the 1920s and who is the subject of an exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Read the New York Times article. Isotype: international picture language is at the V&A until 13 March. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has designed an hourglass for watch brand Ikepod, which contains tiny stainless steel balls in place of sand. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: UK designer Benjamin Hubert presented this ash chair for Italian brand Casamania at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architect Miguel Barahona overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Martin Budnizki Design Studio and Architonic, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Anglepoise, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chairs that double up as ladders, clotheshorses, shelves or lamps are part of a collection of furniture by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: Austrian designer Robert Stadler will present a bookshelf that separates the books you’ve finished from those you haven’t read yet at Galleria Nilufar in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Two laminated plywood shells slot together to form this chair by Berlin designer David Geckeler without any metal fixings. (more…) View the full article

Movie: we take a walk through the Steven Holl-designed Daeyang Gallery and House in South Korea in this second movie by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. (more…) View the full article

Prints of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre by photographer Luke Hayes are now on display in The Changing Room, a space at Dezeen Super Store that is given over to a different creative each week to showcase their products or artwork. (more…) View the full article

Ten conceptual showrooms for the home of the future are presented in this exhibition at temporary arts venue Depot Basel in Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: ”No one’s ever seen anything like it before,” director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects Chris Wilkinson tells Dezeen in this movie we filmed overlooking the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore, which was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month. (more…) View the full article

News: UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to design the new national stadium for Japan. (more…) View the full article

The latest house in our A-Zdvent calendar of residences named after letters cantilevers from the landscape in southern Germany and has 380 acrylic cylinders puncturing its facade. Read more about House R » View the full article

This Tokyo five-storey townhouse by Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa is fronted by a stack of gardens. (more...) View the full article