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News: Michael Graves' seminal Portland Public Services Building will be spared from demolition, despite being described as a "white elephant" and requiring an estimated $95 million for renovation. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: divisive designs from the 1970s and 1980s are brought together in a retrospective exhibition entitled Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, which opened at the Victoria & Albert museum at the weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polish firm Neostudio Architekci have added a timber-clad extension to this farm building in Poland to create a residence. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paul Maich and Ted Swift of Maich Swift Architects explain how their open-air Potemkin Theatre will act as a space to engage audiences, in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. Read more

Swedish designers Whatswhat Collective have designed a pleated lamp shade that changes shape when its drawstrings are pulled. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: London designer Benjamin Hubert has created a range of terracotta pots with rubber lids for Danish homeware brand Menu. (more...) View the full article

This rust-coloured copper home extension by British studio Poulsom Middlehurst sits above the red-brick walls and clay-tiled roof of a Victorian terrace in east London. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: designer Asif Khan created this shop interior using dust sheets, nylon rope and white paint. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product News: Note Design Studio of Stockholm has created a set of wire candle holders that look different depending on where you stand. (more...) View the full article

Cakes decorated like creepily realistic babies and pencils with the alphabet painstakingly carved into their tips are among the exhibits at power of Making, which opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London yesterday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects Powerhouse Company has designed a floating office in Rotterdam for the Global Center on Adaptation that will be carbon neutral and function off-grid. Read more View the full article

This sculpture of a boy and rocking horse by Berlin artists Elmgreen and Dragset will be the next installation on top of the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This multifunctional building by French studio PPA Architectures, provides a residence, gallery, workshop and events space, and stands at the edge of a golf course on the outskirts of Toulouse, southern France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stone sourced from a nearby quarry was used to build this house in Mexico, which architecture studio PPAA Arquitectos designed for two brothers who wanted to get away to "the middle of nowhere". Read more

Pinkish cement covers the exterior of this dwelling in Mexico, which architecture firm PPAA designed for an experimental housing initiative referred to as Infonavit. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio PPAA cut away portions of a square-plan house to create voids that bring in natural light and provide an intimate connection to the surrounding forest. Read more View the full article

These four "finger-like" extensions to a Vienna restaurant, by PPAG Architects, feature mirrored walls that reflect the surrounding parkland, and windows that slide up above the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week we've selected four promising PR and marketing opportunities on Dezeen Jobs including vacancies at architecture studios De Rosee Sa and Powerhouse Company. Read more View the full article

This performing arts centre in São Paulo by Brasil Arquitetura features huge concrete volumes lifted off the ground to create accessible public spaces and has been named on the shortlist for the Designs of the Year awards, announced this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Prada has signed a £42.9 million loan with banking group Crédit Agricole, with repayment terms conditional to meeting key targets around the sustainability of its products and operations. Read more View the full article

Italian fashion brand Prada has launched six bags made from regenerated nylon, as the first stage in its plan to phase out virgin nylon in the next two years called the ReNylon project. Read more

Balconies shaped like greenhouses project from the facades of these apartment blocks in Nantes by French studio Block Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2014: German designer Christian Werner has created a sofa for French brand Ligne Roset with backrests that can be placed in any position (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Blackened wood buildings teeter on the edge of a precipice at this housing development in Sweden by Scandinavian firm Arkitema Architects. (more...) View the full article

Viennese designer Marco Dessí created these stacking chairs milled from plywood to reveal the material’s multiple layers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article