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Manchester School of Architecture gives an insight into the eight ateliers that make up its Master of Architecture course in this Virtual Design Festival school show. Read more View the full article

Manchester School of Architecture presents student projects completed across the final year studios of its BA Hons Architecture course in this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

Manchester School of Art presents Radical Response, an exhibition showcasing work of its academic staff, at the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Milan's Mandalaki Design Studio has created a series of lights that cast boldly coloured orbs across walls, ceilings and floors. Read more View the full article

Mandalaki Studio teamed up with Italian car company Estrima to design the "first" electric concept car made from 80 per cent recycled plastics. Read more

A house on the verge of collapse in Brăila, Romania, has been given a new lease of life by London-based architecture studio Manea Kella. Read more View the full article

New York architects Todd Rouhe and Maria Ibañez de Sendadiano have completed a holiday home in the Catskills, filled with designs from Danish retailers Hay and Vipp. Read more View the full article

Next up in our coverage of London 2012 Olympic design is a 135-metre skyscraper by architects SOM full of apartments overlooking the Olympic park. (more…) View the full article

Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman has installed a wooden hut in an unusual city location – suspended on the side of a San Francisco hotel like a bird box. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger of Studio Ve in Israel have created a clock where the two hands are linked by a striped paper-like material, creating ever-changing 3D shapes as the hours go by. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artisan weaver Manju Devi hand-tied more than 200,000 knots to create this colourful one-off rug for the Jaipur Rug Foundation, which helps communities in rural India to preserve their traditional skills. Read more

Architecture office AR Design Studio has converted an old stable block in Hampshire, England, into a three-bedroom family house (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Arizona architect Nick Tsontakis has unveiled plans for a house that will straddle a mountain and be shaped like a manta ray (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This desk lamp by Berlin studio Böttcher+Henssler for Slovenian lighting brand Vertigo Bird can be adjusted by sliding the aluminium tube through a hole in the maple base and kept in place by gravity alone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: London designer Paul Cocksedge installed giant pages of poetry made from rolled steel sheets outside the China Millennium Monument during Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chilean studio MAPA referenced local vernacular building techniques by placing two sheds within a larger one for this family house in the forests of the Andes mountains in Chile (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio MAPA has revealed the latest project from its prefabricated building company Minimod, a pair of factory-made houses at an estate surrounded by mountains in Brazil (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio MAPA and its prefabricated building company Minimod have completed this residence in Brazil, using black walls and a green roof to help blend in with its remote woodland surrounds. Read more

An austere concrete wall screens the transparent lower floor of this house in southern Brazil, while the overhanging upper storey is masked behind a layer of timber slats (photos by Leonardo Finotti + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio MAPmx has unveiled an office tower in Mexico City with huge concrete walls that appear to be pulled apart at the corners. Read more View the full article

The Map House has created an exhibition of lunar maps created in the 300 years leading up to the first moon landing, which took place 50 years ago today. Read more

Brunel University graduate Emilios Farrington-Arnas has designed a collection of wearable devices that vibrate to guide visually impaired wearers to a destination. Read more View the full article

An entrance concealed behind a ceramic mural leads down into a sunken living room and courtyard at this house in São Paulo by Brazilian architects Terra e Tuma. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramics manufacturer Marazzi has opened a new showroom in Milan, which architects Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel have made to resemble a collector's library. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the darkest known form of slate and prized Belgian rock Pierre Blue are among the inspirations for the latest tiles in Marazzi's Mystone range. Read more View the full article