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New York architecture practice Axis Mundi have designed a conceptual extension to the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, featuring a giant lattice structure. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey suggests architects are becoming more optimistic. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Studio XAG have created a window installation in London for French fashion designer Christian Louboutin, spelling out the brand name in bright neon lettering. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foster + Partners have completed two modular headquarters for Moroccan bank BMCE in Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Dezeen promotion: garden trade show Spoga+Gafa invites young designers to enter their Garden Goes Balcony design competition for the chance to win a share of €12,500 and exhibit as part of Garden Unique, which takes place at Koelnmesse in Cologne from 4 to 6 September. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a round-up of all our stories that feature buildings with alarming cantilevers. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a movie by architectural photographer David Vintiner of vintiner/ap about Folly for a Flyover, a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK broadcaster Channel 4 reports that a backlash is forming against the prevalence of unpaid internships in Britain, which are particularly popular with graduates in the creative industries. A number of websites have been set up by graduates and campaigners offering advice to those partaking in internships and rallying support for campaigns that call on the government to introduce tighter regulations - Channel 4 News </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The window frame of this Beijing boutique by Japanese studio Nendo is repeated into the depths of the store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

X marks the sport where you hang your hat and coat with these hooks that also function as coat hangers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in the first of our daily TV shows from MOST in Milan, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs tours the exhibition as designers rush to prepare everything for today’s press preview. (more…) View the full article

Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about designing the UK pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 in this interview filmed by Dezeen at his exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Visit Dezeen Watch Store’s summer sale to save £100 on the square-faced GO watch by Naoto Fukasawa for Issey Miyake. Designed to mimic stones used in the Japanese board game of the same name, GO is available in four colour combinations, including the silver and black leather, above, now only £170 (UK and EU) or £141.67 (rest of the world). Get one here » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Austrian architects WG3 have designed a mobile hotel room that could be delivered to all kinds of outdoor locations. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Alice Masters for the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence exhibition, Yuri Suzuki talks about his radio with a circuit board arranged like the London Tube map and his mission to demystify consumer electronics. (more…) View the full article

The steps of an adjacent vineyard inspired Dutch architects UNStudio to generate the inclining profile of this house in Stuttgart (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: Japanese designers Nendo used glass from old Coca-Cola bottles to make these bowls with dimpled bases, which are meant to resemble the classic green bottles with their tops sliced off. (more…) View the full article

News: UK firm Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to overhaul New York Public Library's flagship branch on Fifth Avenue by inserting a contemporary lending library into unused reading rooms and stacks at the back of the building. (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Ryuji Nakamura used crayons to draw thin lines of colour along the rods of these gridded benches (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Here are some images of the competition-winning proposals by Snøhetta, Duncan Lewis and Casson Mann for a visitor complex at the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Congolese music performed with mobile phones, carpentry workshops making fantasy coffins and a photo-documentary inspired by the failed Zambian space programme are all part of an exhibition of African design and culture in a Milanese department store next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Doors, windows and recesses are picked out in yellow ochre on the timber facade of this retirement home near Paris by French studio Vous Êtes Ici Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Raw concrete and colourful fabrics are combined in this fashion store in Dubai by London designers Studio Toogood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article