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Delft studio WAM Architecten have completed a hotel that looks like a pile of houses in Zaandam, the Netherlands. (more…) </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

Danish firm ADEPT and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto have won a competition to design a library for the Högskolan Dalarna university campus in Falun, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Michael Young has designed a tower for Hong Kong with faceted surfaces that will change according to weather and lighting conditions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

BeL Architects of Germany have transformed a listed former railway workers’ house in Cologne into a family home. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch studio Atelier Van Lieshout have created a mobile, indestructible dwelling with an armoured shell. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This rehabilitation centre in a Dutch forest by Architectenbureau Koen van Velsen is one of six projects to be shortlisted for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Moss is expected to grow on the perforated aluminium skin of this museum extension in San Sebastián by Spanish studio Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian architects Metro have completed a red glass chocolate museum in the sky. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A chunky timber shell wraps over the north facade and roof of a woodland retreat near Berlin by German architects Scheidt Kasprusch. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are twelve posters that have been created by leading British artists to celebrate next year’s London Olympic and Paralympic Games. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

If you liked the last monochrome boutique with a checkout in the changing rooms by architect Nelson Chow, here’s another one. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This faceted museum in the Alps by South Tyrolean architect Werner Tscholl is precariously cantilevered. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the deadline to apply for this year’s A’ Design Award is 29 February. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week Dezeen arrived in Milan for the 2007 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we saw a lamp comprising a cluster of writhing human bodies and a vase made by bees. Both Phillippe Starck and Ron Arad were presenting new chairs for furniture brand Driade, while Toyo Ito showed a spherical light made from layers of delicate fibre mesh. Elsewhere Established and Sons launched their cartoon graphics-style cabinets alongside Jasper Morrison’s storage units that look like crates. Back in the UK, we revealed the news that Jean Nouvel was to design the new Philharmonie de Paris, although a series of financial problems have stalled its construction, and UNS…

Dezeen’s pop-up retail concept The Temporium guest-curates a collection of homeware for flash-sales site llustre this week, including The Masquerade Bud Vases by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon (above). Go to The Temporium on llustre.com » View the full article

Slideshow: architects Cristian Panaite and Katrien Devreese have inserted a stark, geometric doctor’s surgery into a row of traditional brick houses in a quiet village in rural Belgium. (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Reiichi Ikeda has built a wire mesh box in the middle of a fashion boutique in Osaka. (more…) View the full article

Car brand BMW has designed a folding electric bicycle. (more…) View the full article

These spinning ‘light paintings’ made with sparkling crystal beads by designer Philippe Malouin are currently on show in the Digital Crystal exhibition at London’s Design Museum (+ movie + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the future of books in the digital age in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month, where a bookstore he designed in Japan won the prize in the shopping centres category. (more…) View the full article

Chinese firm MAD has today unveiled plans for a village of towering apartment blocks beside the Huangshan Mountains in eastern China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: German car brand Audi has announced a new design strategy, bringing the interior and exterior design studios together to encourage faster innovation and stimulate greater dialogue between the teams. "You can't survive if you just depend on one brain to do a complex thing like a car," said Audi head of exterior design Achim Badstübner. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen is finally launching an opinion column. The first piece by our new columnist Sam Jacob will run tomorrow; here, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, whose own column will alternate with Jacob's, explains why it's taken us so long to take a stance. (more...) View the full article

New York architecture studio WORKac has reorganised the galleries of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas, by adding a glazed entrance pavilion in front (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article