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Weathered cedar covers this Vermont house, which local studio Birdseye Design built into a grassy slope to take cues from nearby barns. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Danish brand Muuto has introduced a new version of the 70/70 table by TAF featuring a solid oak top. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Customisable floor lamps and ceiling lights make up the Stem Series lighting collection by Canadian design company Bocci. Read more View the full article

The final film from Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson is a meditative look at the Peter Salter-designed Walmer Yard. Read more View the full article

Production designer Mark Digby explains why he selected an inconspicuous 1960s university library as the location for sci-fi series Devs, which was created by Ex Machina and 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, instead of ultra-futuristic buildings in Silicon Valley like the Apple Park. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: designer Hafsteinn Juliusson of Iceland and Italy presented flavoured paper snacks in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five agricultural growing tunnels stand inside a former book store in Kanazawa, Japan, for this exhibition designed by Japanese studio Nendo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this one-person house with a tobacco shop on the ground floor in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast British architect John Pawson recounts how he began his career, his only use of colour in an interior and talks us through his exhibition Plain Space, which opened yesterday at the Design Museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Nelly Ben Hayoun wants volunteers to live with a volcano in their lounge. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects StudioGreenBlue have completed a house in Kōnosu City, Saitama Prefecuture, Japan, with an interior featuring white perforated screens throughout the space. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tham & Videgård Arkitekter have completed this curving nursery school located between a forest and former industrial estate in Stockholm, Sweden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the 2011 Pritkzer Prize laureate, the prize organisers have confirmed after details of the winner were leaked ahead of schedule. Read the full announcement below: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s another chance to watch this interview we filmed with graphic designer Neville Brody back in 2009, now on Dezeen Screen. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ribbons of mesh spiral around two conical bridges by French architect Dominique Perrault that cross a river and park in Madrid. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space is now open at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN, Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm and Sunday 11am-5pm until 16 October. Come round and check out the new Dezeen Book of Ideas, our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up, our live video and blogging studio, specially commissioned sculptures by Dominic Wilcox, an exclusive new product by Paul Cocksedge and a chandelier installation by Plumen, plus a fresh exhibit every day on Dezeen Platform. See you there! </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Zaha Hadid Architects completed a south London school with a running track through the middle, which went on to win this year’s Stirling Prize. Konstantin Grcic was announced as the recipient of the 2010 Designer of the Year Award at Design Miami and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) was forced to close due to funding cuts. Universal Design Studio designed a pleated facade for an H&M store in Seoul, while one of our readers called the 8 House residential complex by BIG “a seductive three dimensional diagram designed to be inhabited by robots.” Tokujin Yoshioka created a see-through mobile phone, Nemawor…

Tokyo 2011: French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux presented a wedding dress made from 500 snowflake-like baubles at this year’s DesignTide Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors to this year’s Design Miami/ fair could climb into the hollow belly of a wooden pavilion by architect David Adjaye. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designer Antoni Arola has created a series of stackable tables, shelves and surfaces with light flooding from their undersides. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the announcement that writer Alain de Botton plans to build a series of temples for atheists in the UK, here are some images of the first structure planned for the City of London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Sydney design brand Dosh to give away five of their new AERO flame money clip wallets. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: London designers Doshi Levien presented this dressing table for BD Barcelona Design at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Spain’s economy may be in tatters but that hasn’t stopped it opening a raft of impressive public buildings in towns, cities and even remote villages over the past year. Amid bailouts and claims that extravagant architectural projects have helped cause the problems, here’s a look back at the amazing Spanish museums, town halls, markets, auditoriums, bridges and even railway control centres featured on Dezeen recently. (more…) View the full article

Shimmering brass walls surround this arts centre that Portuguese firm Pitagoras Arquitectos have just completed in Guimarães. (more…) View the full article