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Dezeen in Israel: designer Chanan de Lange exhibits two circular library bookshelves made from recycled school desks at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects Mecanoo have won a competition to design a cultural centre in Shenzhen with this design composed of a row of overhanging red volumes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sjölander da Cruz Architects of Birmingham have completed this shelter at a park on a former wasteland in Amington, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a selection of projects by Chinese architect Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio, who has been named 2012 Pritzker Prize Laureate (see our earlier story). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects Rstudio have designed a combined metro station and park in Alboraya near Valencia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This chair by Dutch designer Floris Wubben was made by binding and splinting the branches of a willow tree, forcing them to grow into four legs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Wiel Arets Architects to give away five copies of their new book STILLS: A Timeline of Ideas, Articles and Interviews 1982-2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images of the five winning projects at this year’s INDEX: Awards, including Hövding, an inflatable bicycle helmet (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In anticipation of next month’s launch of www.dezeenwatchstore.com, we’re presenting two pop-up watch stores in London during the London Design Festival featuring products including the new navy Uniform Wares watch (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have designed these three wooden bells containing mechanisms from children’s musical boxes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Saunders Architecture of Norway have recently completed the first of six artists’ studios on Fogo Island off the coast of Canada. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this movie we filmed in Milan last month, the Royal College of Art‘s head of design products Tord Boontje talks about the exhibition of student work presented at Ventura Lambrate and describes the themes and trends occupying young designers today. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed another house for MVRDV‘s masterplan in Leiden, the Netherlands (see the other houses here). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Design Museum curator Alex Newson gives a tour of key projects in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 exhibition, which opens at the museum today, in this BBC News movie. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ignorance, indifference and inadequate regulation led to the Grenfell Tower disaster, not its cladding alone, claims a new report, which does not recommend a ban on the combustable building materials blamed for the fire. Read more View the full article

Architects have become too close to the commercial world and should instead be proposing visionary ideas for the future, according to Chinese architect Ma Yansong of MAD. Read more View the full article

Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for a museum on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Japanese designers Nendo have designed these hand-blown glass lights with the blowers pipe still attached, for Czech lighting company Lasvit, exhibited in Milan earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Customers sit at large wooden frames in this hair salon by Japanese studio Three.Ball.Cascade in Chiba, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our special feature about swimming pools, here’s a timber pool house with limestone walls beside a farmhouse in Surrey, England. See a movie of the building on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has proposed a key-cutting concept that allows duplicate keys to be 3D-printed and customised by shape, colour and texture for different locks. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: UK architects will be required to pay statutory minimum wage to students on placements as of 1 July, according to new RIBA rules: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve published a few popular stories about Portuguese architecture recently so here’s a roundup of all our stories on projects in Portugal. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for the latest update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including jobs with Established & Sons in London, Levi Strauss in Brussels and Omer Arbel Office in Vancouver, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles at Foster + Partners, HENN StudioB, Stylus and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Logan MacDougall Pope has sent us his images of this lakeside retreat in Sri Lanka made using a stray shipping container and timber from weapon boxes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article