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Milan 2013: Fabio Novembre presented these giant skull-shaped chairs for Italian brand Gufram at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week. (more...) View the full article

This week we focussed on additive manufacturing with the launch of Print Shift, our one-off print-on-demand magazine all about 3D printing. More highlights from the week follow, plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

News: Storm Thorgerson, the British graphic designer who created the iconic album sleeve for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, has died aged 69. (more...) View the full article

Nike running shoes were suspended around an illuminated track as though on the feet of eight invisible athletes for this installation at Beijing's 798 arts district by Shanghai design office Studio-at-Large (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: planning permission has been granted for Daniel Libeskind's proposed peace centre on the site of the notorious former Maze prison in Belfast. (more...) View the full article

East London studio IWANT has overhauled the birth certificate to bring it into the digital age and make it more personal. (more...) View the full article

Light filters through hundreds of rectangular slits into this towering market hall in Ghent, Belgium, which is is one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 (photos by Hufton + Crow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is an architectural position with artist Tomás Saraceno at his studio in Berlin. Tomás Saraceno's work includes On The Roof: Cloud City (shown above) that was installed at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

News: the owners of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Ysios winery in Spain have launched legal action against the Spanish architect demanding he pays part of the £1.7 million needed to fix the building's leaky roof. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Zaha Hadid launched a sofa based on natural rock formations at an exhibition of her new furniture designs in a former foundry last week. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. (more...) View the full article

Thatching covers the walls as well as the roof at this house in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, by Dutch architect Arjen Reas (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture office AR Design Studio has converted an old stable block in Hampshire, England, into a three-bedroom family house (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Mail Online - the world's most popular news website and the winner of a design effectiveness award - has described the gov.uk site that yesterday won the Design Museum's Design of the Year award as "boring" and "basic-looking". (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch city Nijmegen has launched a catalogue of affordable architect-designed housing kits for first-time buyers. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: London designer Michael Anastassiades presented lamps strung between walls on fine cables for Italian lighting brand Flos last week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new to Dezeen Watch Store this week is the simple Sheffield Classic, the second watch in our collection by Swedish watch brand Daniel Wellington. (more...) View the full article

This house in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates has skylights in the roof and holes in the floor plates, allowing daylight to reach right down to the basement (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: exhibitors have been announced for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week, taking place from 21 to 23 May in London. (more...) View the full article

In this movie made as part of our print-on-demand project, Blurb founder and CEO Eileen Gittins explains how new technology is transforming book and magazine publishing and we visit the Dutch factory where our Print Shift magazine is produced. (more...) View the full article

Concrete and stone buildings with sculpted green rooftops are arranged around generous courtyards at this prison complex near Tarragona, Spain, by architects AiB and Estudi PSP Arquitectura (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: this silver serving set for tea and cake was designed by Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings for Danish silverware and jewellery company Georg Jensen and launched at Spazio Rossana Orlandi last week. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: German designer Stefan Diez unveiled a trio of chairs for German furniture brand e15 at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week. (more...) View the full article

In this movie made as part of our collaboration with print-on-demand publisher Blurb, we visit three of the world's leading 3D-printing companies and explain how we produced Print Shift, the 60-page magazine about 3D printing that we launched earlier today. (more...) View the full article

This renovation of a crumbling 1960s tower block in Paris nicknamed "Alcatraz" topped the architecture category of this year's Designs of the Year Awards and is in the running for the top prize to be announced tonight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article