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Over a quarter of black architects in the UK deal with racism in the workplace as discrimination becomes "widespread", a survey from the Architects' Journal has shown. Read more 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

Dezeen Screen: in this movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Belgian designers Dries Verbruggen (above) and Claire Warnier of Unfold Studio explain their virtual potters’ wheel. Watch the movie » Photo is by Liesje Reyskens. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: online brand Made.com is inviting budding designers to submit furniture and homeware designs for compact urban dwellings to its annual Emerging Talent Award 2016 competition. (more…) View the full article

This sloping Corten steel footbridge by Spanish civil engineers Alfa Polaris straddles a main road to connect two parts of Granollers, Spain. (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

Geneva studio Clavienrossier created this home in the Swiss Alps by adding two tinted concrete volumes atop the remains of a stone house and adjacent barn. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2011: here are some photos of an exhibition presenting work by London designer Benjamin Hubert at the Direktorenhaus in Berlin. (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

Vienna Design Week 2011: Berlin designer Uli Budde unwrapped the facets of a brilliant-cut diamond to create the shape of this gold pendent, currently on show at Vienna Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Architectural Design (AD) to give away five copies of Narrative Architecture by Nigel Coates, the latest title from the AD Primers series. (more…) View the full article

Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up has opened at 55 Neal Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York firm Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) invite visitors to swing on 30 poles outside the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the Venice Architecture Biennale was underway, where Rem Koolhaas was awarded the Golden Lion as OMA unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. Our favourite pavilions included a forest of acrylic fronds that moved as though breathing in the Canadian pavilion, a cloud suspended inside the Arsenale exhibition space and a blue foam model city in the Dutch pavilion. Meanwhile we previewed the new identity for Dezeen Watch Store, which launched the following month. Umbro released the new England Home Kit by graphic design legend Peter Saville, Biomega presented a range of bicycles for Puma, C. F. Møller w…

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>&…

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

New York studio hanrahanMeyers have completed the interior of a chapel in New York with curved walls. (more…) </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

Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates have completed a house in Tokyo, Japan, featuring a white rendered volume sitting on top of a concrete base and no exterior windows. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: designer Shin Azumi of London and Tokyo presented a collection of wooden furniture including this horned chair for Danish brand Fredericia at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design students Min‐Chieh Chen, Dominik Zausinger and Michele Leidi of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have sent us some images of a pavilion made of cardboard hoops. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kazakhstani designer Enis Akiev has developed a method for turning single-use plastic packaging into tiles, by emulating the organic process of rock formation. Read more View the full article

Spanish firm Grupo Aranea have designed this apartment to sit on the roof of a house belonging to the client’s mother. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argetinian studio Adamo-Faiden have installed a fabric tensile structure across the roof of this renovated apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven designers Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk presented glassware produced in collaboration with the glass-makers of Murano in Venice at Sotheby’s auction house in London last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article