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French designer Inga Sempé has designed this outdoor shower for French brand Tectona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle Mikhail Kalashnikov has died aged 94. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2011: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune presented this series of sofas with different-height backrests for Italian brand Tacchini in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius presents 300 porcelain vases coloured with layers of mineral and chemical glazes at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brendon Carlin and fellow students at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory, has generated an architectural structure by filling Lycra with liquid plaster and then letting it set. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some pictures of 6a Architects‘ exhibition design for Wim Crouwel – A Graphic Odyssey, on show at the Design Museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a movie of British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Philippe Ruault has sent us his photographs of the newly-completed 100 11th Avenue by French architect Jean Nouvel, an apartment block in Chelsea, New York, with every glass panel of the curtain wall tilted at a different angle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Introducing a new weekly feature on Dezeen: this time last year Foster + Partners completed the world’s tallest tensile structure in Kazakhstan as its architect Lord Foster surrendered his seat in the House of Lords to avoid paying full British taxes. Jean Nouvel’s bright red Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was reaching for the sky in London’s Kensington Gardens while students from the Royal College of Art exhibited their graduation projects across the road. Meanwhile the UK government scrapped its Building Schools for the Future programme in a £5 billion cost-cutting drive. See all our stories from July 2010 » See our review of last year » </img>&…

French designer Matali Crasset has designed a set of carafes and glasses for tasting olive oil at an exhibition inside a former olive oil-mill in La Valette-du-Var, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Six weeks on from the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower, architects, construction firms or the council could be found liable under the "duty to warn" principle, says construction lawyer Jason Kallis. Read more View the full article

Narrow skylights create bands of light across the red bright ceiling of a sheltered school courtyard in Porto, Portugal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects have completed a house in Aichi, Japan, which was built to replace the family’s existing home on the same site. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A rounded wall of recycled clay tiles converges with walls of white bricks at this village house in Sussex, England. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ukrainian architects Sergey Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko covered the interior of this bar in Kiev with sticks. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the renovation of the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island by David Chipperfield Architects and Julian Harrap Architects has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010. See press release below. See also: our earlier story about the project (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our popular story on House 77 by dIONISO LAB with its perforated aluminium shutters, this week (top right) we’ve compiled all the buildings from the Dezeen archive featuring shutters. See all the stories » All our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Large folding doors open this woodland house outside Stockholm onto a decked terrace that is shaded by a folding fabric canopy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shangai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us some photographs of the completed Swiss Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Buchner Bründler Architects and Element. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sheffield Institute of Arts graduate Guido Garotti will present a series of chairs at New Designers in London next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American toy designer Cas Holman advocates "open-ended play". She tells Dezeen that with children's lives becoming increasingly regimented, we need to let them play more freely. Read more View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have designed this creative industries office block in Amsterdam that has letters of the alphabet cut out of the facade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: CABE and the Design Council have confirmed that they are to merge from 1 April. More details below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Statues at the this hotel by Singapore studio Ministry of Design have their heads in the clouds. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami/Basel is underway in Switzerland, where Paris designer Arik Levy presents these new pieces with Dutch gallery Priveekollektie. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article