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Japanese architects Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan have collaborated to create student accommodation in Tokyo where slits run round the building near the top of each storey. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Campaign have created an installation in New York for fashion brand Dunhill, which features the outlines of a Georgian house picked out in aluminium frames. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dubai-based studio Roar has forecasted various ways that Covid-19 will impact the design of schools and colleges, including a rejection of "vanity projects" and the introduction of WeWork-style classrooms. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: a couple of long-forgotten notebooks filled with sketches informed Italian brand Fornasetti's Facciata Quattrocentesca furniture range. Read more View the full article

Designer Karim Rashid has created a bottle that filters tap water as the user drinks it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polish designer Tomek Rygalik has created a modular seating system where a combination of soft elements are combined atop a tub-like base. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hopkins’ hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped Velodrome for the London 2012 Olympics (above) is one of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2011. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lighting made of double-walled spun metal will be among the new products to be launched by British designer Tom Dixon in Milan this April. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pasel Kuenzel architects of Rotterdam have designed a zinc-clad house on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Lieden, Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This bicylce helmet designed by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin erupts from its hiding place inside a scarf when triggered by abnormal movements. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo designer Keisuke Fujiwara has wrapped bentwood chairs by German furniture brand Thonet in twelve kilometres of coloured thread. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Joris Laarman opens at Friedman Benda gallery in New York on Thursday. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Croatian designers Bruketa&Žinić have created a book that can only be identified in the dark. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A spiralling staircase is visible behind the gridded exterior of this office block in Vevey, Switzerland, by Swiss firm Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Eric Jourdan has designed a range of seating for French design brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Jason Strong has sent us his images of the new Skype offices in Stockholm, designed by Swedish firm PS Arkitektur. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Aimée Furnival of A Studio for Design has created a series of greetings cards that fold out into miniature gardens, in which the recipient can grow cress. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architect Alessandro Mendini is to be reinstated as editor-in-chief of Domus magazine. He is to edit eleven issues, commencing with April 2010. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa have won a competition to reuse a former prison in Talca, Chile, as a public space and arena. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven collective La Bolleur will construct a mini golf course in Zona Tortona in Milan this April. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Paul Williams of Stanton Williams tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs why his team designed the new campus for London art and design college Central Saint Martins as “a blank canvas” where different disciplines could “take form and ownership”, in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival last month. (more…) View the full article

Copenhagen studio Henning Larsen Architects have completed a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík, Iceland, in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects of Melbourne have completed a Corten steel-clad house in Smokey Town, Australia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us his photographs of the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia by Peter Eisenman, nearing completion in Galicia, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Recycled plastic, clear acrylic and voluptuously layered foam feature in three texture-heavy collections by Sydney studio DesignByThem, which are being showcased as part of the VDF products fair. Read more View the full article