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Comments update: the editor of one of Italy's leading design magazines told Dezeen that Milan was still the "international capital of design", adding fresh fuel to the fiery debate about Italy's significance in the design industry. (more...) View the full article

News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has completed work on a new complex for gin company Bombay Sapphire in Hampshire, England, including two sculptural glasshouses that are heated using warm air created during the distilling process (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: design boutique Darkroom looked to grid patterns used in the 1960s and 70s by radical Italian architecture firm Superstudio to inform its latest collection of products and in-store installations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: design brands including Vitra, Artek and Flos have joined forces to attack the UK government for delaying the implementation of a law that would outlaw the sale of copies of their furniture and lighting products. (more...) View the full article

Israeli office Pitsou Kedem demolished and rebuilt the inside of this Tel Aviv penthouse apartment to create a pared-back interior featuring raw concrete, steel and wood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: designer Sebastian Cox has unveiled his latest collection of furniture made from hazel wood he collects in the British countryside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Untreated timber and pale bricks have been used to clad six new London homes by Henley Halebrown Rorrison, which were developed as the city's first co-housing project (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: design website Standseven has launched its first limited-edition product this week with a stool shaped like the number seven by London architect David Adjaye (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Crowdfunding sites, electronic formats and online book fairs mean architecture and design book publishing is going through "a renaissance," according to Steve Kroeter, editor-in-chief of the Designers & Books website (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Irregular-shaped boxes have been grouped together to create storage, a study, and stairs up to a mezzanine play area in this renovated loft by Brooklyn studio SABO Project (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: as part of the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, designer Pernilla Ohrstedt has partnered with 3D-scanning specialists ScanLAB to create Glitch Space, a physical representation of the environmental data that will one day be captured by driverless cars (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

London fashion and interiors studio Eley Kishimoto has designed a collection of wallpapers with bold screen-printed patterns. (more...) View the full article

Following Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's recent London Design Medal triumph, we've created a Pinterest board filled with the French design duo's work. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more projects by the Bouroullec Brothers View the full article

Music: directors Harry Israelson & Harry Schleiff enlisted the help of a yellow inflatable man called "Mr Wiggles" to make this music video for Les Sins' dance track Bother. (more...) View the full article

London studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has added a contemporary glazed extension to a Grade II-listed Cotswolds house to provide additional space without detracting from the original building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Letters from the Hollywood sign appeared to have toppled from their position in the Santa Monica Mountains, as part of an installation by London studio Ordinary Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: the daughter of British designers Robin and Lucienne Day talks to Dezeen about preserving her parents' legacy and the launch of a new version of her father's much replicated 675 Chair (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Naruse House by MDS has been clad using the traditional Japanese technique of Yakisugi, which involves charring cedar wood to create a blackened, weather-resistant surface that resists decay (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: east London design brand Vitamin has unveiled its latest range of products at designjunction (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we published architecture for cats, the latest news from London Design Festival 2014 and continued our series on Brutalist buildings. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days. (more...) View the full article

News: the editor of one of Italy's leading design magazines has denied that her country's industry is in decline and believes that "Milan is still the international capital of design" (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the final behind-the-scenes movie about our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, Pernilla Ohrstedt explains the concept behind her stand design for the show. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: the way we consume architecture online has changed thanks to social media, creating a new genre of imagery – meme-tecture. Alexandra Lange offers her guide to making an architectural meme. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Beijing Design Week is returning to the Chinese capital this month to present design, art and creativity from across the country. (more...) View the full article

British designer Torsten Sherwood developed a scaled-up construction toy to build temporary hideaways for his Designers in Residence commission at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article