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These shoes by Dutch footwear designer Marloes ten Bhömer are pressed from three pieces of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have selected seven studios for the shortlist to design their new home in a 1960’s RMJM-designed building in west London, including David Chipperfield, Caruso St John and John Pawson - Architects Journal </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

We’ve got together with Milan watch designer and Dezeen regular Denis Guidone to give away five of his latest designs for Italian product brand NAVA Design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Readers are debating Michael Fords' statement that architects "who want to really impact the fight for racial equality" should stop designing jails and prisons, and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Sarajevo designer Tea Petrovic has designed a collection of shoes based on the work of late Russian sculptor Naum Gabo and architect Santiago Calatrava. (more…) </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

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

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

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

Instagram users have captured dramatic images of 432 Park Avenue, the super-tall tower in Manhattan by Rafael Viñoly Architects that is set to open this year. (more…) 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

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

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

Loughborough University graduate Benjamin Cullis Watson has designed a smell-free rubbish bin that can quickly compost waste from the kitchen. Read more 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

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

Santiago studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has separated a rural house near the ocean in Chile into a pair of elevated structures topped with grooved-metal roofs. Read more 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

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

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

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

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