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Dezeen promotion: Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad has teamed up with LG Display to create an artwork of OLED light panels for trade fair 100% Design during this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An auction taking place during Parisian art fair FIAC next week will cement Ron Arad's reputation as one of the only collectible contemporary designers on the art market, according to French auction house Artcurial (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Celebrities including Stephen Fry, David Baddiel and Elizabeth Hurley have modelled face masks designed by Ron Arad that will be sold to raise money for the UK's National Health Service. Read more View the full article

The hotel in Washington DC made famous by the Watergate scandal has reopened with interiors by London studio Ron Arad Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Ron Arad Rocks! exhibition at the Louisa Guinness Gallery in London brings together old and new work from the Israeli designer, including his latest range of jewellery made from jagged pieces of silicone (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: designer Ron Arad is to create an installation at London’s Roundhouse in August this year to host performances by designers and musicians including Hussein Chalayan and Javier Mariscal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Ron Arad has created a set of vases that slot inside one another, just like a nest of tables, for glass brand Nude. Read more View the full article

In our fourth and final movie made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad describes how he tailored the exhibition to the gallery space. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this third of four films Dezeen made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad explains why he wanted movement to be a key part of the show. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs of the exhibition Ron Arad: Restless, currently on show at the Barbican in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In our second of four films made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, we asked Ron Arad (above, pictured while studying at the Architectural Association) about his upbringing in Israel and how he found himself working as a furniture designer in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ron Arad Architects has revealed a twisted tower that is narrow at the base but widens at the top, built as the first phase of the ToHA office complex in Tel Aviv. Read more

New York-based Israeli designer Ron Gilad has added a modular shelving system and an oval table to his TT furniture collection, which features surfaces that appear to hover unsupported within a metal frame. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian office furniture manufacturer UniFor has collaborated with Israeli designer Ron Gilad to create an installation that imagines Napoleon reading a giant book at this year's Milan design week. Read more

Dutch firm Ronald Janssen Architecten collaborated with architect Donald Osborne to overhaul an old gearwheel factory in the heart of Amsterdam, creating 12 maisonettes with double-height living spaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed a monastery built into the side of a hill at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: these pendant lamps by German designer Oliver Schnick have raised collars that direct light up to the ceiling as well as down to the floor. (more...) View the full article

These felt elephant toys by German designer Daniel Böttcher are available at our pop-up design emporium Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2. (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa has teamed up with design studio Nendo to create a hillside pavilion, filled with stools designed to look like troops of wild mushrooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Thirteen oak trees are planted in a courtyard at the centre of this residence by Roof Arquitectos, which sits in the hilly landscape outside the Mexican city of Morelia (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

New photos capture the latest progress on the headquarters that BIG and Heatherwick Studio have designed for Google in California's Mountain View. Read more

Japanese architects ALPHAville have completed this terraced house in Takarazuka, Japan with a roof that follows the slope of the site. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian lighting brand Fabbian will present a collection of pendant lamps covered in silicone tiles by London designer Benjamin Hubert in Milan next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design duo Something & Son has created a sustainable farming initiative on a rooftop in Folkestone, England, but has concealed it behind a traditional fish and chip shop facade (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Artist James Bridle has teamed up with architecture studio TDO to build a rooftop hangar on a south London car park, from which a military surveillance balloon makes a daily flight to snoop on the area (+ movie). (more...) View the full article