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This week on Dezeen we’ve been focussing on architecture and design in China, with Hong Kong designer Michael Young telling us that China will produce as many world-class designers as Japan within 20 years but Shanghai architects Neri&Hu maintaining that “architects in China are lost”. (more…) View the full article

House S in Osaka by Suga Atelier has a concrete facade that looks like a rockface and it's the latest addition to our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House S » View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Sometimes by Italian designer Denis Guidone is now back in stock at Dezeen Watch Store. Produced by American brand Projects, the watch comes in two new updated styles including this brass version (above) with a brown suede strap. (more...) View the full article

London-based Studio Swine has produced a set of gold and silver clip-on buttons inspired by the textures and shapes of modernist architecture (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Spindly orange walkways are raised above the waters and meadows of this wetland park designed by landscape architects Turenscape on a neglected river in China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec will present an aluminium sideboard for Italian furniture brand Magis plus an update to their Steelwood chair in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Foster + Partners has completed a new gallery wing clad with golden pipes at the Lenbachhaus art museum in Munich (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the three-legged, leaf-shaped side table that sparked a revolution in self-assembly furniture over 60 years ago is returning to Ikea stores next month. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer Stefan Borselius has designed a globe-shaped outdoor light for streets and parks. (more…) View the full article

Our World Design Guide roundup this month leads with the London Design Festival, taking place from 14 to 22 September, and features 16 more design events around the world. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's Library and Learning Centre at the Vienna University of Economics and Business opens today and this animation by London visualisation firm Neutral gives a tour of the building. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Eindhoven designer Miriam van der Lubbe takes us around the fair she co-founded, claiming: "What is visible in Milan in two years, you can see at Dutch Design Week now." (more...) View the full article

One pivoting door sits within another to create a rusted steel entrance that can be big or small at this combined house and photography studio in Spain by American firm Olson Kundig Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German firm Buero Wagner has designed a bar for mixology company Gamsei with ceramic bottles of ingredients hanging from a metal grid on the ceiling (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian designer Eugenia Morpurgo has set up a high-street micro factory, which uses digital manufacturing to produce her range of customisable shoes that wearers can assemble and repair themselves. (more...) View the full article

Swedish architect and designer Mia Cullin has produced a range of benches and stools with adjustable seats modelled on traditional wooden peg furniture and piano stools. (more...) View the full article

News: every electrical device in the home will be linked to the internet within a decade, according to the CEO of connected home products brand Nest (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox explains why he is making a stained-glass driverless car for our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition in September. (more...) View the full article

Is your head a bit fuzzy from all the alcohol-related fun last night? Soothe it by checking out all the stunning architectural wineries we've featured on Dezeen. See our new wineries Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | More wineries View the full article

This Tokyo shop by Schemata Architects features exposed industrial fittings and galvanised metal display rails that have been treated to produce a petrol-toned surface (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: an unloved relic of 1950s socialist Yugoslavia is one of the finest buildings of its era. But in modern Serbia, its overtly political message doesn't chime well with the prevailing ideology, says Owen Hatherley. (more...) View the full article

A narrow wooden tunnel provides the entrance to this forest refuge built by students beside a mountain in Bergen, Norway (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The upper storey of this home in the Lithuanian countryside is contained within a pointy shale-clad roof, while glazed walls provide woodland views for rooms on the ground floor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Yoon Space Design has completed a gallery dedicated to the work of South Korean potter Jung Gil-Young, featuring mirrored walls that help camouflage the building against its countryside setting (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lenny Kravitz has become the latest celebrity to move into furniture design, joining the likes of Brad Pitt, Pharrell Williams and Vanilla Ice with a range of products and lighting that includes a table topped with a sheepskin pillow (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article