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Vienna designer Vuk Jakovljevic has designed this wooden chair with a wide winged back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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Royal College of Art graduate Seongyong Lee has developed a process for making wooden tubes from veneer, which he uses to make lightweight furniture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Recent works by Spanish studio Herreros Arquitectos are on show at the ROM Gallery in Oslo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed a house on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands, where the middle floor overhangs on one side. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rural Studio alumni Marie and Keith Zawistowski led 17 students of the Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design in the design and assembly of a farmers market shelter in Covington, Virginia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Daniel Widrig has created a wooden chair with three legs that morph into armrests and a back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This faceted stone building by Hungarian architects Építész Stúdió contains a concert hall and conference centre in Pécs, Hungary. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: London Metropolitan University graduate Adrian Bergman has designed a modular retail display system that’s only held together by rubber rings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: architect Zaha Hadid presented this zig-zag chair for producers Sawaya & Moroni in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: stitch by Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop is a series of second-hand items given new, hand-stitched fabric skins. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A colonnade of petal-shaped arches creates an illuminated walkway around the perimeter of this Muslim cultural centre designed by Chinese architect He Jingtang. Read more View the full article

Here’s a movie of the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron in Weil am Rhein, Germany, shot by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This year’s London School of Economics students can take time out from studies in a custom-built lounge, where boxy white stools slots into walls and a central table. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our review of the past year, our most popular story in July 2010 was an exhibition designed and curated by Zaha Hadid at Galerie Gmurzynska Zurich, tracing Hadid’s interest in the Russian avant-garde. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time five years ago Dezeen was less than a month old and reported from Design Miami, where Kanye West took time out from snapping up pieces by the Campana Brothers to tell us about his new apartment by minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin. Back in London we published pictures of the design, our first story to go viral. More on this in our birthday roundup of our most memorable trips! We also interviewed gallerist Murray Moss and showed new pieces by Barnaby Barford, Maarten Baas and Fredrikson Stallard. Our first attempt at a Friday gossip update noted Justin McGuirk’s appointment as editor of Icon magazine (where he stayed until last year) and Marcel Wanders’ p…

Milan 2011: London designer Roger Arquer has designed these lamps which are operated by touching the flowers in the adjoining vase, presented in Milan earlier this month by design brand Bosa. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Six architecture students have created a temporary fashion store in Budapest with a billowed canvas canopy and a sliced firewood floor. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: it’s day two of our Designed in Hackney showcase and the award-winning Plumen 001 designer light bulb by Samuel Wilkinson for Hulger is our featured project from the borough today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and publishers John Wiley & Sons have teamed up to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of I Wish I Worked There by Kursty Groves. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Los Angeles-based Cuff Studio is presenting a collection of furniture and lighting as part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration, which balances angular, architectural shapes with playful, feminine touches. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2011: 20 designers presented their work among stuffed animals and dried plants inside the vitrines of the Biologiska museum in Stockholm last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Reed-like steel columns surround another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten for the World University Games in Shenzhen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Around 6000 holes puncture the concrete exterior of this library in Kanazawa, Japan, by Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba of Japanese firm Coelacanth K&H Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK architects Foster + Partners have also announced their proposed masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article