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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

In Milan last month Japanese brand plusminuszero launched a watch where the strap slots through the back of the case. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Today we are awarding medals to the designs and architecture of the London 2012 Olympics that received the most likes on Facebook, and Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre takes the gold medal with over 5000. (more…) View the full article

Japanese architects Geneto installed diagonal walls across the interior of this houe in Shiga, Japan, to block views through to neighbouring houses and create new spaces in between the rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: we’re still uploading all our movies to our new video website, www.dezeenscreen.com. The latest is this interview with Tom Dixon, conducted as part of the Design Museum’s Super Contemporary exhibition two years ago, in which he talks about his life and career in London and how the punk movement influenced him. Watch the interview </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A team of Dutch companies has unveiled a proposal for a huge circular wind turbine that doubles as an apartment block and hotel, and also includes a rollercoaster. (more…) View the full article

Italian designers LucidiPevere Studio have created this circular kitchen knife for Danish brand Normann Copenhagen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

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

The Dezeen Book of Ideas, a selection of over 100 great ideas by the world’s best creative brains, is now available for pre-order! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have designed two prototype villas for a site overlooking the historic town of Dubrovnik in Croatia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with kitchen brand Joseph Joseph to give away five Y-Grinder salt and pepper mills – worth £30 – designed by London studio DesignWright. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Israel is considering a plan to build an artificial island off the coast of the Gaza Strip to encourage tourism and act as a transit point for goods, according to The Guardian. Read the story </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plans have been unveiled for a 12 metre-high bronze statue of London Mayor Boris Johnson overlooking the River Thames in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Dezeen are media partners for the London series of Pecha Kucha talks, and the next one takes place on Thursday 24 May at Clerkenwell Design Week with speakers including architect Nigel Coates, architecture publisher Peter Murray and designer Benjamin Hubert. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's recently completed Miami skyscraper One Thousand Museum – one of the late architect's last buildings – is revealed in a short movie and photography. Read more View the full article

Icelandic musician Björk has partnered with designer and researcher Neri Oxman on a mask made up of multiple 3D-printed strands that mimic the underlying structure of her own face (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a conceptual transport system that would involve airships powered by seaweed. (more…) </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

Australian firm Lyons’ new campus building for a college in Warrnambool, Australia, has a glazed façade made up of hexagonal apertures tilted down towards the street. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This building by Australian architects Lyons in Melbourne combines a family home with a museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Despite living in hilly San Francisco, designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has created a tricycle for local living. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An army of 100 scarecrows dressed in glowing decontamination suits kept a sinister vigil over the Dockville Festival in Hamburg earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Viennese designers Mischer’Traxler presented a collection of bowls cast from vegetables in Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These chandeliers by London designers Troika use large fresnel lenses to shape the light from LEDs suspended below them into overlapping geometric patterns on the ceiling of the Royal Society of Arts‘ headquarters in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article