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Dezeen Wire: the British Council will invite architects to conduct research projects in far-flung places and present their findings at an exhibition entitled Venice Takeaway in the British Pavilion at next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at Berlin design fair Qubique 2011, Luis De Oliveira of Portuguese design company De La Espada presents work by designers including Ilse Crawford, Matthew Hilton, Benjamin Hubert and Autoban. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio (and near-neighbours of Dezeen) Raw Architecture Workshop have designed a partly submerged wooden house for the Scottish Highlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the next series of London Pecha Kucha talks kicks off at the Design Museum on Tuesday 28 February, with speakers including illustrator and artist Noma Bar, design historian Patrick O’Shea and architectural photographer Jim Stephenson. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: today’s TV show from Dezeen Studio in Milan features Tom Dixon showing us the restaurant in a former monastic dining room, where diners sit on chairs fabricated at the venue and order food with mobile phones. The episode also features an interview with Johanna Agerman-Ross from Disegno magazine plus details of our first daily give-away and a weather report. (more…) View the full article

The 100th issue of Dezeen Mail features an interview with David Chipperfield and Sou Fujimoto’s house with hardly any walls and the first story we’ve ever had to censor, plus all the latest jobs, competitions and music. Check it out here. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

A puppet pops out from the pocket of this tote bag by Japanese designers Nendo. (more…) View the full article

The last of the Ziiiro watches to be featured in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale is the Mercury watch. Rings of rotating comets display the time, like the Gravity watch. You can now buy Mercury in black and magenta for only £124 (UK and EU) or £103.33 (rest of the world). Buy now » 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

This barbecue by Barcelona designers Mermeladaestudio will char your food with geometric patterns. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Hackney designer Lee Broom has transformed his studio into an old-fashioned grocery store for the London Design Festival (+ interactive image). (more…) View the full article

News: architect Renzo Piano has unveiled designs for a museum of movie history for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Paris designer Inga Sempé has extended her range of little round wall-mounted shelves and dishes for French brand Moustache. (more…) View the full article

The Dezeen Watch Store winter sale has begun! You can now get 20% off a selection of our best-selling watches for a limited time only, including the chronograph Braun BN0035 (above). Was £185, now £148. Visit Dezeen Watch Store to browse all our great deals. (more...) View the full article

An open fire welcomes visitors to this egg-shaped hut built by Danish studio SHJWorks on the edge of a Copenhagen park (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Bulging fabric sausages constrict the outfits in Italian fashion designer Sylvio Giardina's Autumn Winter 2013 collection, shown a few days ago during Paris Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian design brand Pedrali will commemorate it's fiftieth anniversary with a mirrored installation and the launch of a new chair in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Product news: London designer Simon Pengelly has created these curved wooden chairs with cut-out backs for British furniture brand Modus. (more...) View the full article

A cantilevered exhibition floor and an underwater conference suite feature at this archive and research centre, designed by Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti and one of several new buildings on Marseille's waterfront (photographs by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (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

News: construction is now underway on M+, a new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. (more…) View the full article

Robots could be sent to Mars to build caves for later habitation by humans, according to a proposal for the colonisation of the planet by German firm ZA Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2013: the Future Project of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival has been given to a museum for China's maritime heritage, proposed in Tianjin. (more...) View the full article

Movie: Dezeen takes a tour of the inaugural West End Design District during this year's London Design Festival, taking in highlights including the Sanderson hotel, shoe designer Tracey Neuls' store and the Republic of Fritz Hansen showroom. (more...) View the full article

Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune will present a modular table system with plug sockets within the structure during Stockholm Design Week next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Mail issue 190 features a house with a missing corner (pictured) and a hydroponic farm in tunnels beneath London, plus the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 190 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article