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The Temporium: today’s window in our Advent calendar of products at The Temporium features Papernomad‘s, biodegradable paper sleeves for electronic devices. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: designer Debbie Wijskamp exhibited her collection of cabinets made from blocks of pulped paper at DMY Berlin last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish design studio Papila has designed a range of freestanding cabinets for the hotel industry that replace unattractive mini fridges (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New Zealand designer Chris Waind has created this set of decorative paper butterflies. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: our second project this week by Stuttgart architects Werner Sobek Design is a huge cantilevered altar that was temporarily constructed in Freiberg, Germany, for the pope’s visit last year (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Four matching staircases lead up to the rooftop terrace of this Algarve hotel by Portuguese studio PAr, offering guests views out towards a nearby lagoon (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: Paradise is one of the bright floral patterns launched by New York design studio Superflower as part of its Florescence wallpaper collection. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. (more…) View the full article

Ivan Priatman Architecture has designed a house in Indonesia with glass-covered pocket gardens and a swimming pool covered by a stainless steel mosquito net. Read more View the full article

Music: animation studio Parallel Teeth has designed an abstract world of disembodied eyeballs and dancing shapes for Ladi6's Beffy music video (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Canadian firm 5468796 has created an angular residence with light interiors concealed within a dark-coloured exterior. Read more View the full article

Discus-thrower Derek Derenalagi competes using a custom frame that’s specially designed to meet strict rules for Paralympic athletics, which state that any equipment can be used so long as he can get set up and ready to compete within 60 seconds. (more…) View the full article

Bespoke racing wheelchairs designed and manufactured by UK firm Draft will be used by a number of medal hopefuls during the London 2012 Paralympics, including Beijing gold medalist David Weir and London Marathon winner Shelly Woods (below). (more…) View the full article

To conclude our series on designs at the London 2012 Paralympics we’re focussing on the most talked-about equipment used at the games – carbon-fibre prosthetic blades inspired by the hind legs of a cheetah. (more…) View the full article

The London 2012 Paralympics begin tonight and over the coming days we’ll be featuring a selection of cutting-edge sportswear designed for the competing athletes, starting with the Nike Spike Pad as worn by “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's latest architecture exhibition features glowing funnels that bulge down from the ceiling to greet visitors (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Composer and pianist Rosey Chan teamed up with architect Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects to create this short movie that sets parametric architectural imagery to music. Read more View the full article

This slatted structure by architects Plasma Studio looks like it's crawling over an apartment building in the Italian Dolomites (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Photographer Montse Zamorano has sent us his photographs of Álvaro Siza’s recently-completed auditorium for the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Production designer Lee Ha Jun created the house at the centre of the film Parasite based on a basic sketch drawn by director Bong Joon–Ho. In this interview, Jun explains how he designed the set that many people thought was a real house. Read more View the full article

German designer Samuel Treindl has made a clock, lamp and other products from shapes cut out of existing furniture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This concrete house in the Portuguese town of Palmela by Lisbon office Paratelier was cast inside wooden panels that were then used to build its interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Photographer Filippo Poli has given us images of a new sports centre in Barcelona by Catalan architects Batlle i Roig. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss architects HHF and French architects AWP have won a competition to design a series of follies for a new park outside Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

OMA have won a competition to design a gateway building for Toulouse, France, with a 40,000 square metre column-free exhibition hall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article