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Stockholm 2011: designer Mia Gammelgaard of Copenhagen showed this wooden chair with leg warmers for Swedish firm Blå Station at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Karim Rashid has created this rotational-moulded chair for Italian furniture brand B-Line. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: new plans by Dixon Jones, Squire & Partners and Kim Wilkie to redevelop the controversial Chelsea Barracks site in central London have been approved by Westminster Council - BBC Developer Qatari Diar withdrew its earlier plan by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2009, following criticism of the design from Prince Charles. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Furniture-filled caves can be found inside a guesthouse in Modica, Sicily. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in his latest article for The Guardian, architecture and design critic Rowan Moore interviews Terence Conran ahead of an exhibition dedicated to his career at the Design Museum, which opens on 16 November. In the article Moore suggest that Conran’s greatest successes have been the businesses he’s founded rather than the products or interiors he’s designed, which Moore adds are “a little too managed, manipulated, packaged and don’t quite communicate the fun he has got out of life, as if constrained by some invisible boundary.” </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium 2011: Playbutton is a badge with a built-in MP3 player that plays a preloaded album when headphones are attached. Playbutton is available at our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium but we only have ten so get there fast! (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Kengo Kuma and Associates have installed a Starbucks coffee shop on the approach to a Shinto shrine in Dazaifu, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Wienerberger to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Brick’12, the accompanying book for the Wienerbeger Brick Awards 2012 that took place last week. (more…) View the full article

Hong Kong brand Ziiiro‘s first watch design, Gravity, is now reduced by 20% as part of the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale. Like their Orbit design, also in the sale, Gravity doesn’t have hands but rotating comets tell the time. Available at the reduced price in blue or magenta, Gravity is now only £92 (UK and EU) or £76.67 (rest of the world). Get yours here » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, fashion brand Paul Smith, and design brand SCP, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with BIG, B&B Italia, Wilkinson Eyre and more… (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: in addition to our Dezeen Super Store in the Seven Dials area of Covent Garden, Dezeen Watch Store will be popping up at two different locations from tomorrow: designjunction and 100% Design. (more…) View the full article

Bright shades of yellow and green help elderly people find their way around in this 17-storey housing block in Barcelona by Spanish architects Pau Vidal, Sergi Pons and Ricard Galiana (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen has been all about twisted buildings, as BIG released designs for twisting skyscrapers in Miami (below) and a spiralling observation tower shaped like a honey-dipper for Phoenix (above) plus here's our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Here are the first photographs of Jean Nouvel's Tour Horizons, an office block in Paris that looks like a pile of three separate buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a transparent computer that allows users to reach "inside" the screen and manipulate content with their hands was unveiled at the TED conference in Los Angeles last week. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa designed this rural house in Kagawa like a sundial, with a south-facing tower that casts shadows across a grassy courtyard (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the winners of the 2013 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards have been announced, with Chicago-based collective Studio Gang Architects taking the prize for architecture. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders discusses how he overcame the challenges of using LED technology in his new lamp for Moooi and defends the high cost of design products in this movie Dezeen filmed in Milan. (more...) View the full article

This house in Spain has triple-layer facades that allow varying degrees of light and privacy, and features a bedroom that can be hidden or revealed with the help of a sliding wall. (more…) View the full article

Dutch office UNStudio has developed a concept for a giant Ferris wheel in Japan that could rival the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer. (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2013: this year's award for the best landscape project at the World Architecture Festival has gone to a botanical garden at a former quarry in Australia. (more...) View the full article

Swiss architecture firm Bureau A created a seven-storey mobile performance space and street kitchen, mounted it on a tricycle and rode it round the streets of Hanoi in Vietnam (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has developed a knitted cardigan with integrated stretch sensors that measures the movement of elderly wearers (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

British architect Alex Graef has combined two art deco apartments in Vienna to create a home with clean white walls, restored oak floors and a row of artificial skylights (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Wooden structures and traditional joinery are used in this Melbourne takeaway chicken shop by local interior designers Hecker Guthrie to evoke the appearance of a chicken coop. (more...) View the full article