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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

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

Amanda Levete Architects have sent us these images of their proposals for a new cultural centre in Lisbon with a roof that spirals around from the existing riverfront pathway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In order to create a "silent" interior for this Lithuanian coffee shop, designer Inga Pieslikaitė paired birch wood furniture with poured concrete flooring and white-painted walls (+ slideshow). (more…) 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

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

Next we take a look at our most popular stories from April this year. In at number one was Thomas Heatherwick’s hairy UK pavillion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, made up of 60,000 transparent rods. (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

Swedish architects and designers Claseeon Koivisto Rune will launch a task light made entirely of paper in Milan next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese interior designer Yukio Kimura has created this combined cafe, gallery and second-hand book shop in Osaka, Japan. (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

It’s been a good week for Japanese houses on Dezeen, including one shaped like an arrow pointing at the sky (above). (more…) 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

Paris architects Nadau Lavergne have completed a round wooden theatre and matching circular restaurant for a campsite in the south of France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in London is publishing a webcast and Twitter summary of Design for Growth, its 2011 Design Summit, taking place this morning and featuring designers including Jonathan Ive of Apple, Ian Callum of Jaguar and Tom Hulme of IDEO. Follow the summit here from 10.35am </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In case you hadn’t noticed, this week we’ve been in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we’ve been filming a daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST. Highlights include interviews with Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon and Faye Toogood, plus we’ve been talking to journalists about this year’s hot topics, giving away prizes and touring exhibitions at MOST and elsewhere in the city. Catch up with all the episodes here. Other exciting projects from MOST that we’ve featured include an installation where mysterious helpers dressed in white guide visitors through a healing performance and the launch of new design brand La Chance, who have created one c…

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

Dezeen Screen: this movie by Jonathan Gales of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen imagines the whole of London as a construction site, caught in a state of change that could mean dramatic decay or intensive development. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Eindhoven designers Formafantasma present this range of plastic vessels resulting from experiments with natural polymers at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Every room in this Japanese house by architect Tetsuo Kondo leads to a little garden (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This rectangular concrete block with a volume protruding from its side is a family home in Tokyo by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates. (more…) </img></img> </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

Here’s another project by Slovakian designer Peter Jakubik (see his Hobby Panton Chair in yesterday’s story), this time a cabinet with a chalkboard surface. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two refurbished wine cellars in Spain feature undulating oak ceilings and stainless steel trees. (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