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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

Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled this design for a performing arts centre in The Hague, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm Ryuji Nakamura Architects installed these vinyl hammocks in a department store in Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A table with interlocking branch-like legs by design collective Outofstock has been put into production by French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up is now open as part of Clerkenwell Design Week in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This movie filmed as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents in Cologne earlier this year features industrial designer Marco Susani. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A modernist housing development in Detroit designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is captured in photographs by architect and local resident Julio Alberto Cedano. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this week Dutch designer Marcel Wanders presents a chair made by the same blow-moulding technique used to manufacture water bottles. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Here’s another project from last month’s Royal College of Art graduate show, Els Woldhek’s series of unconventional shelving and lamps joined by copper growths. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey reports growing confidence among UK architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These twenty lakeside villas in the Qingpu district of Shanghai are designed by Atelier Feichang Jianzhu of Beijing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: this new video up on Dezeen Screen features Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn of Design Drift talking about their Fly Light and Fragile Future projects, which is on show this week at Ventura Lambrate in Milan. Watch the movie. See all our movies from Ventura Lambrate 2011. </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

Interior designer Kelly Hoppen has created a life-size statue of Disney's iconic cartoon character Mickey Mouse, which she has adapted to suit a "grown-up" audience. Read more

Dutch firm MVRDV and Danish firm ADEPT have won a competition to design a building housing health, leisure, culture and education facilities for Frederiksberg in Denmark. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: a wooden 1:10 scale model representing a portion of the London 2012 Olympic stadium has been installed at the British Pavilion directed by muf architecture/art for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designers can now apply to exhibit their ideas for hotel rooms as part of Sleepotel at The Sleep Event in London this November. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Danish designers KiBiSi designed a flying car, Eindhoven duo BCXSY were dressed as cavemen in our top ten primitive designs and an ice cream laboratory opened in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Five holiday homes by architects Peter Zumthor (above), MVRDV, Nord Architecture (below), Hopkins Architects and Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects are nearing completion in England as part of the Living Architecture project initiated by writer Alain de Botton. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American practice Olson Kundig Architects are renovating a historic dock building in the port city of Tacoma, reinforcing the existing structure and suspending boats from a newly added roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This fluffy children’s playsuit by Royal College of Art graduate Helge Fischer sounds an alarm if the child is touched inappropriately. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Finnish architects Lassila Hirvilammi have completed this slate-clad church with a separate steeple in Jyväskylä, Finland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Work has restarted on the Leadenhall Building in London by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article