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News: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won a competition to design a new centre for social sciences at the London School of Economics. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: prolific Japanese studio Nendo has unveiled the third design in its series of watches based on architectural drawing tools with the Draftsman Grid 03. (more…) View the full article

Berlin studio J. Mayer H. has designed a temporary pavilion comprising a wonky grid of criss-crossing timber beams to celebrate the 300th year of German city Karlsruhe (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mjøstårnet by Voll Arkitekter in Brumunddal, Norway, has been verified as the world's tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Read more

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a press manager to join New York-based SHoP Architects, which recently completed a pair of "dancing" copper-clad luxury apartment towers in Manhattan. More › View the full article

Visitors to Venice's Palazzo Grassi become immersed within a space that appears to have no boundaries in an installation created by American artist Doug Wheeler in the gallery's atrium (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Interieur: French designer Matali Crasset has created a collection of concrete furniture, including a lamp shaped like an interwar military listening device. (more…) View the full article

The raw concrete exterior of this winery building in Germany, by local firm Burkhard Architekten, is in such contrast to its neighbours that local residents think the structure is still under construction (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Bold primary colours punctuate this stark concrete extension to a secondary school outside Lisbon by Portugese architect CVDB Arquitectos (+ slideshow) (more...) View the full article

News: financial fiascos and political problems have caused 50 skyscrapers taller than 150 metres to be started and never finished, according to industry experts. (more...) View the full article

In this movie Dezeen produced for Haberdashery, Ben Rigby introduces the London design studio's first commercial lighting product, which casts dappled light reminiscent of sunshine filtering through leaves. Read more View the full article

Designers Hsin-Jou Huang, Szu-Ying Lai and Chia-Ning Hsu help people with disabilities to fulfil their sexual needs with a three-part masturbation tool that includes a bodysuit, a mask and a remote control. Read more

Sans-Arc Studio has added a playful kitchen extension to a cottage in Torrensville, Australia, which is characterised by white-plaster walls, arches and terrazzo. Read more

Daniel Libeskind's architecture firm has revealed plans for a museum in Iquique, Chile, featuring jagged, earthy concrete walls that are intended to evoke "the stark landscape of the Atacama Desert". Read more

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book released to coincide with a retrospective exhibition of work by Eindhoven designers Formafantasma. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Jeongwon Ji has made her own bioplastic from crab shells. (more...) View the full article

A nomadic city moves from place to place like an enormous tank in this conceptual proposal by architecture graduate Manuel Domínguez. (more...) View the full article

Canadian architect Henri Cleinge built a house for himself in Montreal with concrete walls inside and out. (more...) View the full article

A faint pattern of cherry blossom petals decorates window screens and furniture inside this tea house in Japan by Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects. (more...) View the full article

Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition of unattributed ceramic pieces that questions the importance of identity in the design industry. Read more View the full article

David Kohn Architects has transformed the ground floor and basement of a 1970s office building in London into a gallery space for auction house Sotheby's that exposes the existing concrete ceiling beams (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Apple has finally launched its eagerly anticipated Apple Watch, with a square face, interchangeable straps, purely digital face and a sapphire screen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Feature: the visual language of glossy glass, brushed metal and soft fabric that informed the first wave of interface design for smartphones and apps might be dead, but not all designers are convinced about its replacement, reports Alex Wiltshire. (more...) View the full article

Travel agency Luxury Action is planning to build the "northernmost hotel in the world" by placing a group of heated glass igloos at the North Pole. Read more

Photo essay: British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper has delved into the history of iconic electronics brand Bang & Olufsen, whose products influenced Apple's Steve Jobs and Sony founder Akio Morita. (more…) View the full article