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Hotel brand Yotel have opened a flagship branch in New York’s Times Square, where visitors check in at computerised kiosks while their luggage is stored or retrieved by a giant robotic arm. (more…) </img> </img> </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

An exhibition of new work by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec has opened at Galerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the organisers of Frieze Art Fair have announced that Carmody Groarke will design this year’s exhibition, to be held in London this October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a new exhibition documenting the career of Terence Conran has provoked a flurry of media interest in the man who founded retail brand Habitat and London’s Design Museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Sybarite have designed a modular display system for shoe brand FitFlop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nine designers including Florian Hauswirth, Kaspar Hamacher and Max Lipsey furnished a grain-silo-turned-art-space in Basel in a five-day experimental workshop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: here’s a preview of work by young and upcoming designers at trade show Decorex International 2011, which takes place 25-28 September in London, including furniture by Gareth Neal (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argetinian studio Adamo-Faiden have installed a fabric tensile structure across the roof of this renovated apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (more…) </img></img> </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

Venetian office AMAA has converted an abandoned plumbing factory into an architecture studio with a rough-and-ready character. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has filled Moroso‘s showroom with mist to present his new Moon chair for the Italian brand in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estonian architects Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere have designed a house for a fishing village near Tallinn, covered in shingles on all surfaces except for one white concrete wall. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s an animation of how the two memorial fountains on the World Trade Centre site in New York will look when they open in three weeks time. Watch the movie » </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

This sloping Corten steel footbridge by Spanish civil engineers Alfa Polaris straddles a main road to connect two parts of Granollers, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Golden Lion award winners at the Venice Architecture Beinnale were announced at a ceremony on Saturday. The Kingdom of Bahrain was awarded for the best National Participation, while Junya Ishigami + Associates received the Golden Lion for best project in the Exhibition People meet in Architecture. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is media partner for the first Architecture & Design Film Festival taking place in New York from 14-17 October, and we have ten pairs of tickets to give away. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Maker have completed a hair salon featuring gauze partitions and booths in untreated wood. (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

London architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan have completed an extension to the Modern Art Oxford by transforming a delivery yard into a gallery space and café. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design student Martha Schwindling has created a series of three tables with drawers that twist or tilt open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spotlights at the ends of tentacle-like cables illuminate the client’s collection of paintings and sculptures inside a seafront apartment in Belgium. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

After hours, rolling metal shutters fasten across these New York apartments designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. (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