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London architects Carmody Groarke arranged temporary timber pavilions around the trees in Regent’s Park for this year’s Frieze Art Fair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: sports architecture firm Populous claims that original plans to air condition a stadium they are designing for the 2022 Football World Cup are too expensive and “notoriously unsustainable” when used in desert environments – The Independent Populous director John Barrow says they are now considering other options for creating a comfortable climate inside the Sports City stadium and is encouraging the Qatari government to alter its building schedule to give new technologies time to develop. You can see our previous story on the 2012 London Olympic stadium, also by Populous, and all our stadium stories here. </img> </img> </img> </…

Dezeen Wire: a Danish news site reports that the power plant with integrated ski slope proposed by Bjarke Ingels Group has been denied funding by the City of Copenhagen due to environmental risks – Politiken See renders of the Waste-to-Energy Plant, which would also blow smoke rings, in our earlier story. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These five measuring spoons give the correct quantities of flour, water, yeast, sugar and oil to bake the perfect loaf of bread. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: this week visitors to La Rinascente department store in Milan have been trading souvenirs from the moon, making plastic from plants and learning how to download a house, courtesy of Hacked Lab curated by Beatrice Galilee. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, Heatherwick Studio and Llustre, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Universal Design Studio, Architonic and more… (more…) View the full article

London designer Ron Arad has created a range of sunglasses and spectacle frames that can be adjusted to fit any face by sliding the lenses along an A-shaped wire over the nose. (more…) View the full article

ECAL graduate Kacper Hamilton has designed a luxury axe with carbon-fibre in its handle and interchangeable heads. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: today’s live show from 5pm at 100% Design hosted by Dezeen will include talks with London designers Philippe Malouin (above) and Benjamin Hubert, and writer and curator Beatrice Galilee. (more…) View the full article

Curator and writer Daniel Charny has teamed up with Sugru’s James Carrigan to launch Fixperts, a matchmaking service that introduces inventive designers to people with everyday design problems (+ movies). (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

As 2012 comes to an end we're showcasing our five most popular stories and the most important news from each month of the year, starting with January featuring Peter Zumthor, Disney and Kanye West. (more...) View the full article

Korean architects AND imagined this hotel on Geoje Island as a hand of outstretched fingers, with rooms and balconies pointing out in different directions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Michael Schmidt and architect Francis Bitonti have created a 3D-printed dress for burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese. (more...) View the full article

This clinic by architect Kimitaka Aoki in the Ibaraki prefecture of Japan is designed to look like a cluster of smaller buildings (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Walls of Corten steel and timber surround this house by McAllister Alcock Architects on a vineyard in Mornington Peninsula, Australia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This kit by Royal College of Art graduate Neil Merry allows musicians to control sound and lighting effects at their gigs by slinging the microphone around or waggling their instruments about (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: London architecture firm Foster + Partners has redesigned the first-class cabins for Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific. (more...) View the full article

News: billionaire technology tycoon Elon Musk has unveiled his vision for the future of design, with modelling software controlled by hand gestures linked to 3D printers. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Italian designer Denis Guidone has designed a watch based on smooth, flat pebbles - and the Stone watch is now available to purchase from Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Long Distance watch by Kitmen Keung displays two time zones at once and Dezeen Watch Store is the very first reseller to stock the timepiece! (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Famous for their collaboration on the iconic Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1977 (pictured), Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano both feature as the letter R in our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Italian architect Piano recently completed an extension to Louis Khan's Kimbell Art Museum in Texas, while Rogers' London firm has just won a competition to design a new centre for social sciences at the London School of Economics. See more architecture by Richard Rogers » See more architecture by Renzo Piano » View the full article

News: technology giant Apple is designing an electric vehicle that could revolutionise automobiles and challenge electric car manufacturer Tesla, according to reports that emerged over the weekend. (more…) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2014: each item in this six-piece stationery set by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a soft faceted body (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Faye Toogood, Martha Schwartz Partners and the V&A, where lighting brand Bocci installed a giant chandelier of colourful glass spheres during LDF 2013 (pictured). Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Vitra Campus, Michael Anastassiades, MAC Cosmetics, Estee Lauder and more... (more...) View the full article