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Serbian designer Miloš Milivojevic has installed a tree-like mobile phone charger powered by the sun in a park in Belgrade. (more…) View the full article

This aluminium furniture and lighting was cast inside sheets of heat-resistant fabric in a process developed by French designer Julien Carretero. (more…) View the full article

The Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 closes this weekend and this movie by Cristobal Palma shows how visitors to the Chilean Pavilion had to walk over a bed of salt while viewing proposals for Chile’s public spaces on glowing boxes suspended from the ceiling. (more…) View the full article

Piles of buildings featured heavily on Dezeen this week, including Edouard François’ stack of townhouses, apartment blocks and bungalows (above), plus we’ve picked out our favourite Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more…) View the full article

Interest in conservation and small scale development is growing in China, according to Shanghai architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, whose conversion of a former colonial police station opened in the city this month (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Danish studio 3XN has revealed the first photographs of its whirlpool-shaped aquarium under construction in Copenhagen. (more…) View the full article

News: industrial designer Yves Behar believes his revamped SodaStream can save 2000 bottles a year – but a TV advert promoting its green credentials has been banned in the UK for alleged “denigration” of rival products (+ watch the ad). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a 3D visualiser at UXUS in Amsterdam, known for their interior design collaborations with well-known brands such as K-Swiss, Nike and H&M (shown above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Customers visiting a pop-up 3D photo booth in Tokyo from tomorrow can take home miniature colour models of themselves (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio TomDavid Architecten has won a competition to design a market square in Casablanca, Morocco, with plans for a canopy of leaf-like structures. (more…) View the full article

In this final movie in the series filmed by Dezeen for the Stepney Green Design Collection, London design brand Hulger’s creative director Nicolas Roope talks about the “thriving community of creative people” in east London. (more…) View the full article

London studio Nicholas Hare Architects used a palette of yellow brick, bronzed aluminium and unfinished timber to construct this secondary school in Essex, England (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These delicate bowls by Japanese design studio Nendo are so thin they quiver in the wind (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Product news: British designer Jasper Morrison has created a family of outdoor furniture for Spanish design brand Kettal. (more…) View the full article

Japanese firm Torafu Architects renovated this auto repair shop in Tokyo to make it look as sleek as a car showroom (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail leads with MVRDV’s proposals for a 400-metre skyscraper that looks like a pile of buildings and also includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 128 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: construction is set to begin next month on the world’s tallest building in Changsha, China, which will be completed in just 90 days. (more…) View the full article

A chequerboard of opaque panels and windows surrounds this school canteen in western Germany by SpreierTrenner Architekten (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Polish studio Ingarden & Ewý has slotted a theatre and library around the nineteenth century structure of a former horse-riding arena in Kraków (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rubber-coated fabric is pinned to the walls and ceiling of this fashion boutique in Zagreb, Croatia. (more…) View the full article

This earthquake-proof house on a hillside in western Chile by architects Pezo von Ellrichshausen has six rooms with glass walls (+ photos by Cristobal Palma). (more…) View the full article

Product news: American designer Victor Vetterlein has made an edible desk lamp. (more…) View the full article

The trend for extreme cantilevers continues with this house in Croatia by architect Idis Turato, where one floor dramatically overhangs the other. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store is popping-up today and tomorrow at hotel design show Sleep 2012, where you can browse a selection of our watches by named designers and independent brands, including the new 203 Series by London watch brand Uniform Wares (above). (more…) View the full article

News: the Royal College of Art will end up as a “Chinese finishing school” unless the UK government does more to encourage young people to study art and design, according to writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr. (more…) View the full article