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A survey of the UK's Creative Industries Federation members has shown that 96 per cent are in favour of remaining in the European Union. (more…) 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

Mushrooms grow on decaying books at this garden in Quebec by Berlin landscape architect Thilo Folkerts of 100 Landschaftsarchitektur and Canadian artist Rodney LaTourelle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: UK designer Benjamin Hubert presented this ash chair for Italian brand Casamania at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Continuing our review of 2010, here are the five most popular Dezeen stories from February. In first place was VitraHaus by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Toby Horrocks and designer Kristian Aus have created this fold-out cardboard shop interior for the State of Design festival in Melbourne. (more…) </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

London-based Fraher Architects have completed a house extension in Islington that is wrapped in larch batons and has a flower-covered roof. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: a trio of international architecture firms will redevelop and add new facilities to Montreal's natural science museum, housed in a vast glass velodrome within the grounds of the city's former Olympic park. (more...) View the full article

London interior designers Studio Toogood have installed a pile of boxes decorated with multi-coloured electrical tape at the Comme des Garcons Aoyama flagship store in Tokyo.The project is Studio Toogood’s second for the fashion label, following their Sneaker department at Dover Street Market in London last year (see our earlier story).Here’s some more information from [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian designers Quinze & Milan have designed this chair comprising layers of leather and fabric clamped between an oak frame. (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

Slabs of folded concrete give this cultural centre by São Paulo Arquitetura a seemingly impenetrable appearance, but hidden behind its windowless walls are light-filled galleries and a plant-lined gully (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Atelier 9.81 of France have inserted a perforated canopy in between a row of houses to create a covered pedestrian walkway in Tourcoing, France. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: designer Leoni Werle of Germany combines an enormous lamp shade with a table to make this workspace. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: the Rewrite desk by Copenhagen designers GamFratesi (see our earlier story) has been put into production by French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Yesterday saw the topping-out ceremony of Herzog & de Meuron’s philharmonic hall on the river Elbe in Hamburg. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Thomas Heatherwick was awarded the RIBA Lubetkin Prize at a ceremony in London yesterday. Mote details in press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Aurora, one of two new designs by Hong-Kong brand Ziiiro, tells time with colour and is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A watch featuring a looter running off with a TV while a riot policeman stands and watches is one of a series of one-off, customised time pieces commissioned by Dezeen from Dominic Wilcox. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese office Ninkipen have completed this office in Osaka with a facade of aluminum louvres that appear to bubble. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer and artist Joep van Lieshout talks to Dezeen about his sculptures depicting cannibalism and suicide in this interview recorded at the Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery in London, and how “industry itself needs to be saved” so he plans to “start producing from scratch again” (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

These half-plastic, half-wicker waste paper bins by German designer Cordula Kehrer for American brand Areaware are made with the Aeta people of the Philippines. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in our second movie celebrating this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, WAF programme director Paul Finch explains why the super-jury headed by architect Robert Stern selected the Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects as World Building of the Year 2008 in the festival’s inaugural year. (more…) View the full article