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Italian designer Simone Bonanni explains how he went from doodling in the margins of his notebooks to designing pieces for Moooi, in our latest Design Dreams video for the Dutch brand. Read more

Competition: Dezeen is offering five readers the chance to win a copy of the second issue of Fiera magazine – a print publication that presents new talent from international design fairs. (more…) View the full article

As part of the series of interviews filmed by Dezeen for the Design Museum Collection App, director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic introduces two cameras that raised the bar of analogue photography. Download the iPad app free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: these table lamps styled like long-necked animals by Pilar Velasco and Pau Stephens are on show as part of Salone Satellite at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

This group of university buildings by Irish office Grafton Architects, including a limestone-clad medical school and three red-brick student housing blocks, was one of the six projects named on the 2013 Stirling Prize shortlist last week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A Silicon Valley inventor has created a vehicle that looks like a skateboard balanced on a single wheel, and allows users to "surf on land" (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

We’ve just added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of offices from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 3000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about offices. View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architects will soon be able to walk around inside 3D sketches of their projects and edit their designs as they go, according to the team behind the revolutionary Gravity Sketch 3D drawing pad. (more...) View the full article

An opaque box appears to balance over see-through walls of glass and perforated steel at this house and pet shop in Saitama, Japan, by architecture studio N Maeda Atelier (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A Tokyo townhouse fronted by a stack of gardens (above) and a conceptual extension to the Guggenheim Museum in New York lead Dezeen Mail issue 137, which also features the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 137 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Two console tables by Japanese designer Yuki Matsumoto can be leant against each other and linked by their drawers. (more…) View the full article

Velvet green seating is coupled with wood latticework in this Japanese restaurant located inside Brooklyn creative hub A/D/O. Read more View the full article

Opinion: a 1960s institution in Mexico that gives visitors space and time to wander is a stark contrast to the commodified museum experience that has become the norm, says Alexandra Lange. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet used seaweed to create a furniture collection that highlights its possibilities as a material. (more…) View the full article

News: a cultural centre in Arnhem covered in a dense pattern of pale concrete mullions by Rotterdam firm Neutelings Riedijk Architects has won the award for the Netherlands' Best Building of the Year 2014. (more...) View the full article

An undulating golden plane blankets the new Islamic art galleries at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Plants sprout through the patchwork aluminium facade of this pharmacy and clinic in Japan by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates. (more…) View the full article

The founders of New York magazine Sight Unseen have used a basic, web-based design software tool to produce a pair of two-tone rugs for Swedish brand Kasthall, previewing at Stockholm Design Week. Read more

To provide children at this primary school with more room to play, London designer Asif Khan has created a stilted structure that stands two metres above the playground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Caruso St John has completed a £45 million renovation of London's Tate Britain art gallery, which includes a spiral staircase descending to new underground classrooms. (more...) View the full article

Watch Extinction Rebellion, Haworth Tompkins, Maria Smith, Adrian Lahoud deliver presentations on climate change at the Architecture of Emergency summit in London's Barbican Centre. Read more

Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has transformed a collection of historic buildings in Hong Kong into a vast arts complex, for the city's largest heritage conservation project to date. Read more

A system of hydraulics opens and closes three panels of this visitor centre in Xiahuayuan Village, China, depending on the temperature outside. Read more

A fur-lined globe, a steam-emitting canoe and a transparent sauna are among the winning designs for a series of shelters to be erected on the edge of Toronto's frozen lakes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

San Francisco firm Terry & Terry Architecture has transformed a century-old brick building into a design agency's headquarters, adding a second level that features a folding glass wall and roof terrace (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article