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Designer Dominic Wilcox has taken an abandoned office in a London building being demolished this week and painted the entire contents white. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Natascha Madeiski and architect Alexander Graef used cut-out paper to create this wintry window display for Septieme Etage boutique in Geneva. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: London Metropolitan University graduate Adrian Bergman has designed a modular retail display system that’s only held together by rubber rings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This group of schools outside Paris by French architects Dominique Coulon & Associés has walls, ceilings and details picked out in bright orange. (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

Australian architects Edwards Moore have completed this glowing art studio in a car park. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scandinavian architecture firm CF Møller has presented its plans to build Denmark's largest sewage-pumping station in Copenhagen. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: since our story about a house concealed by mist (bottom left) was so popular this week, we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archive that feature weather. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </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

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

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

Milan studio AtelierFORTE have built a sauna in the northern Italian countryside that has wings like a bird. (more…) View the full article

Norwegian architects RRA have completed this wood-clad nursery school in Oslo, Norway. (more…) </img></img> </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

Stockholm designer Fredrik Paulsen presented this table with adjustable, folded-metal legs at Venture Lambrate in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

French designer Philippe Starck has completed the renovation of a former wine cellar in Bilbao to create a new culture and leisure centre for the city. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Masayoshi Takahashi of High Land Design has completed a house in Tokyo with a squared spiral staircase at its centre. (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

London designer Mathias Hahn talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in our next movie from Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, filmed at imm cologne earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week two of Virtual Design Festival came and went in a flash! Here's a day-by-day roundup of all the week's collaborations, interviews and video messages. Monday 20 April VDF x MAAT: we kicked off the week with Lisbon's MAAT museum, hosting a virtual launch of its installation and exhibition by architect SO-IL. We exclusively unveiled the architect's Beeline installation, premiered a documentary about SO-IL and conducted a live interview with Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu. Video message: Lonneke Gordijn of Studio Drift shared her thoughts on how the pandemic could lead to a new economic model with creatives leading the way. "We, as a creative community, are already us…

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

This three-legged wooden chair with adjustable back-rest shaped like an oar is part of a special edition collection designed by Florian Hauswirth of Switzerland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article