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Cologne 2011: this folding table by Swedish designers AKKA is one of two joint winning projects in this year’s [D3] Contest, an international competition for young designers organised by trade fair imm cologne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This apartment full of holes in Amsterdam was designed by Dutch interior architects i29. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York architect Peter Marino has completed the new flagship Louis Vuitton Maison on London’s Bond Street, featuring glass windows lined with golden chainmail. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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Dezeen Wire: a new exhibition documenting the career of Terence Conran has provoked a flurry of media interest in the man who founded retail brand Habitat and London’s Design Museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish design studio Flensted Mouritzen has created a running mould machine that makes sculptural plaster objects with mottled surfaces. Read more

Fir trusses create triangles that meet in the middle of the ceiling at a community hall in California designed by Siegel & Strain Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, London footwear designer Victoria Spruce talks about her collection of sculptural shoes, exhibited at Dezeen Platform last week. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tree-like lampposts emerge from a pool of pebbles in front of a metal-clad vehicle research institute in Spain by architects ACXT. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs by Edmund Sumner of the completed Balancing Barn holiday home in Suffolk, UK, by MVRDV and Mole Architects, including a swing under the 15 metre cantilever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us these photographs of two stone-clad buildings by Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects that form a research centre with accommodation on the island of São Miguel, Portugal. (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

Vienna architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to design the new Centre for Promotion of Science in Belgrade, Serbia, with this design supported on a network of diagonal stilts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Customers can play their own music inside booths at this pizza restaurant in Richmond, UK, designed by Ab Rogers of London. (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

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

Stuttgart practice Ippolito Fleitz Group have completed the interiors for a fast-food chicken restaurant in Munich, Germany. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swirling clouds of drumsticks cover the ceiling of a Los Angeles noodle restaurant by Japanese architects SWeeT. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Ora-Ïto has designed a spaceship and a sedan chair for car manufacturer Citroën. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In order to create a "silent" interior for this Lithuanian coffee shop, designer Inga Pieslikaitė paired birch wood furniture with poured concrete flooring and white-painted walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Here are some more photos and sketches of the information centre by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón for the newly renovated Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (see our earlier story) (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers aren't sure about the interior design of an apartment in Madrid, but have fallen for the dog who lives there. Read more

This building for Tokyo by Japanese architects Geneto will be cloaked in steel mesh with ivy growing over it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid Architects has been appointed by the Mayor of London to help develop plans for a major new airport in the southeast of England. (more...) View the full article

Brussels designer Sylvain Willenz drew on cassette tapes and floppy disks for the design of these external hard drives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article