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News: French interior and product designer Andrée Putman has died in Paris aged 87. (more...) View the full article

The first and only built project by the late experimental architect Lebbeus Woods is the Light Pavilion, one of of three large-scale installations at Steven Holl's recently completed Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Australian designer Marc Newson has created a 22-piece collection with orange details for bathroom brand Caroma (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Alex Cochrane Architects has created a space for shoppers at London department store Selfridges to find peace and quiet amid the bustling emporium (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

One building is the inverse of another at this pair of museums that architect Steven Holl has designed for a new city quarter of Tianjin, China. (more...) View the full article

This week MVRDV disguised a glass building as a brick farmhouse (above) and a team of Danish architects disguised a housing complex as a group of icebergs (below). Our track of the week from Dezeen Music Project is also below, plus a roundup of our top stories from this week. (more...) View the full article

News: mobile phone maker Nokia has released open-source files that will let Lumia 820 smartphone users 3D print their own customised case. (more...) View the full article

Suzanne O'Connell of Hackney studio The Decorators introduces a temporary restaurant in a local market and a community event on top of a multi-storey car park in this movie filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

News: American studio CODA has won this year's MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program competition and will insert a wall made from skateboard offcuts into the courtyard of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. (more...) View the full article

American fashion designer Jeremy Scott has designed a special edition for car brand Smart, with wings that shoot out from the back to form the rear and brake lights (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is a call for junior architects at XTEN Architecture in Los Angeles, USA. Their California-based projects include NakaHouse (pictured above), a remodel of a 1960s hillside house built just below the famous Hollywood sign. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht had a slice of skin surgically removed from his own belly to make this ring. (more...) 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

Y-shaped wooden columns support rooms and lofts at different levels inside this family house in Matsudo, Japan, by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2013: the structure of this lightweight plywood chair by Eric and Johnny Design Studio of Berlin was inspired by I-beams used in the construction industry (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: Japanese architect Toyo Ito will present a set of cutlery with slim handles like chopsticks at Maison&Objet design fair in Paris, which opens tomorrow. (more...) View the full article

A housing block shaped like icebergs (above) and our World Design Guide feature in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 135 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This shop and office complex by Dutch architects MVRDV is disguised as an old farmhouse, but its walls and roof are actually made from glass. (more...) View the full article

OMA's research studio AMO installed a domestic interior filled with angular furniture and make-believe windows as the setting to present Prada's Autumn Winter 2013 collection during Milan Men's Fashion Week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The classic blue Nivea tin inspired an overhaul of the skincare brand's packaging by San Franscisco-based designer Yves Béhar and his studio fuseproject. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a limited edition digital artwork by Japanese artist Yoko Ono. (more...) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has presented a new collection of his glowing Fish Lamps made of jagged plastic scales. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Saturn is the first digital watch by Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro to feature at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Parasitic dwellings for homeless people would cling to the sides of lamp posts in this concept by British architecture graduate Milo Ayden De Luca (+ slideshow + movie). (more...) View the full article

The lower floor of this long narrow house by Dutch studio 123DV is mostly buried beneath two grassy mounds (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article