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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

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at Qubique 2011, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic talks about Cape, his sofa for Established & Sons with a loose cover draped over the structure like a blanket that can be changed with the seasons. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This tableware by Dutch designer Jochem de Wit is made of concrete, cast glass and brick. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Karim Rashid presented a collection of stainless steel containers for Italian design brand Alessi at Maison & Objet in Paris last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Dezeen are media partners for the London series of Pecha Kucha talks, and the next one takes place on Thursday 24 May at Clerkenwell Design Week with speakers including architect Nigel Coates, architecture publisher Peter Murray and designer Benjamin Hubert. (more…) View the full article

Boston studio Ruhl Walker Architects have completed a wildlife recovery centre in Hawaii. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our new video website, Dezeen Screen, launches on Monday. As part of the launch we’re setting up a temporary video studio adjacent to Yves Behar’s JamScape installation in Milan and we’ll be filing video reports from the Ventura Lambrate district all week. For now the URL www.dezeenscreen.com redirects to the video category on www.dezeen.com… but not for much longer! Please check back after 1pm on Monday. More info about Dezeen Screen here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Ole Scheeren has designed a skyscraper for Kuala Lumpur that will have a four-storey-high tropical garden slicing through its middle. (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

Italian architects Studio Archea have sent us these images of their pavilion in the Urban Best Practice Area at the Shanghai Expo 2010. (more…) </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

Gabled wooden structures encasing glass-walled living spaces will distinguish a group of treehouses that Peter Pichler Architecture has designed for a forest in Kitzbühel, Austria. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Israel is considering a plan to build an artificial island off the coast of the Gaza Strip to encourage tourism and act as a transit point for goods, according to The Guardian. Read the story </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slovakian designer Peter Jakubik has carved the rough shape of an iconic Panton Chair into a tree trunk with a chain saw. (more…) </img></img> </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

Cologne 2011: designer Philippe Nigro presented this set of bright yellow divans, two tables and a foot stool for Ligne Roset at imm cologne last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estonian studio Salto Architects have completed a temporary summer theatre in Tallinn made of black spray-painted straw bales. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch graduate designer Carolien Laro has designed a range of stools with flexible seats created by cutting slits into their solid wood tops. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen Watch Store and architects David Chipperfield, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Sugru, Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, Architonic and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A central staircase rises through split levels in this narrow house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shintaro Fujiwara. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: As part of our movie series filmed at at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month, designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe talk about the M-Collection, a furniture range they have designed for the Frits Philips Concert Hall (see our earlier story on Dezeen). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

English landscape architect Heather Wing of the Wayward Plant Registry has transformed a disused site in Bankside, London, into a public garden with the introduction of apple trees, allotments, follies and a table-tennis table in a skip. (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

American designer Louie Rigano has created a range of teapots that combines mass-produced wooden handles and lids with individual hand-thrown bodies. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Icelandic musician Björk has partnered with designer and researcher Neri Oxman on a mask made up of multiple 3D-printed strands that mimic the underlying structure of her own face (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article