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Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Australian label Matilda presented products and furniture by 30 designers including a timber and aluminium pendant light by Kate Stokes (above) at designjunction last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: Stockholm designers Claesson Koivisto Rune present a series of engraved carafes that can be converted into vases by adding various precious metal collars at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese interior designer Yukio Kimura has created this combined cafe, gallery and second-hand book shop in Osaka, Japan. (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

Milan 2011: French designer Matali Crasset launched this convertible sofa for Campeggi at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Metropolitan University graduate Fotis Evans has designed this display system for the book shop at Somerset House in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the VOID V02 watch by Hong Kong designer David Ericsson is back in stock in brushed stainless steel at Dezeen Watch store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We found this Thai canteen furnished with construction materials a few streets away from Dezeen Space, which was open in Shoreditch until 16 October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two refurbished wine cellars in Spain feature undulating oak ceilings and stainless steel trees. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Denton Corker Marshall designed this spaghetti-like bridge for Hangzhou in China. Unfortunately the competition it was shortlisted for has now been cancelled. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured architects: Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron are our featured architects at the moment. Browse all Dezeen’s stories about them in this special category. Enjoy! Featured architects: Herzog & de Meuron Above (from left): Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron. Portrait © HamburgMusik/Michael Zapf. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office tend to design houses with unconventional windows. Here’s their latest one in Kyoto. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bricks from demolished local buildings were used to construct this museum in Mouscron, Belgium, by architecture studio V+. Read more

This captioned movie shows how pods made from easy-to-assemble, CNC-cut wooden panels, designed by Reed Watts, are providing temporary accommodation for homeless people. Read more

Amanda Levete Architects have sent us these images of their proposals for a new cultural centre in Lisbon with a roof that spirals around from the existing riverfront pathway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chilean studio Duarte Arquitectos have designed an apartment building for a hill-top in Valparaiso, Chile. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders presents a photographic installation featuring mermaids exploring the Moooi collection at the London Design Festival, which starts today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Paul Cocksedge Studio in London and Graphic designers Allabina in Tripoli, plus this is the last chance to apply for jobs with Amanda Levete Architects, BarberOsgerby, Schmidt Hammer Lassen and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rain falls inside parts of this house in Tokyo by Japanse studio Takeshi Hosaka Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au of Vienna have won a competition to design a new parliamentary building in Tirana for the Republic of Albania. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architects have tranformed a 1930s church into a house in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects BIG and Paris studio OFF have won a competition to design a research centre for Sorbonne Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos have completed an underground museum in Spain with weathered steel towers and cylinders that emerge above a grass lawn (photographs by Roland Halbe and Fernando Alda). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architectural writer Elias Redstone has launched an online archive of features from alternative and independent architectural magazines. Called ARCHI-ZINES, the resource presently includes 75 publications from 39 titles over the last eleven years. It will be continuously updated with newly published material. More details below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article