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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

A collective of young architects and designers from AlArchitects of Prague have designed a range of jewellery made from recycled medical waste. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bangkok studio Department of Architecture have installed rippling fabric fins hanging from the ceiling of this hotel lobby in Pattaya, Thailand. (more…) </img></img> </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

Milan 2010: German design studio Ett la Benn present a collection of lamps made by drying out sponge cloths over moulds in the Zona Tortona district of Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Dalton Maag have created a font for mobile phone brand Nokia to work in any language. (more…) View the full article

Tel Aviv architect Ron Fleisher has designed a house in an Israeli-Arab village that combines traditional Palestinian architecture with modernism. (more…) </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

Architect Jean-Baptiste Bouvet has completed a hillside swimming pool that steps down to a terrace overlooking the scenic French landscape. (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

Dezeenwire: Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision have released a report on how European architects use trade journals. See the report below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted chocolate-brown panels line the walls of this chocolatiers’s shop in Brussels designed by Minale Design Strategy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of the recently-completed One Hyde Park residential development in London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, which boasts the most expensive apartments in the world. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has co-designed the replacement for London’s iconic Routemaster bus, mayor Boris Johnson and Transport for London announced this morning. (more…) </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

A triangular courtyard slices through the centre of this woodland retreat in Nagano, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </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

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

Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler have created a series of lights where two found lamps share one fluorescent bulb. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a house in Tokyo surrounded on one side by a tent. (more…) </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

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

Israeli firm Schwartz Besnosoff Architects have built this library for Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architectural photographer Iwan Baan is to be awarded the inaugural Julius Shulman Photography Award in Los Angeles this Sunday, 10 October. See announcement below from Baan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article