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The steel beam running through this compact bicycle by British industrial designer Ben Wilson means it can carry heavy loads on its front and rear platforms (+ slideshow + movie). (more…) View the full article

News: journalist Kieran Long has been appointed senior curator of contemporary architecture, design and digital at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

This stacking chair by Swedish designer Jens Fager is more flexible than you’d expect thanks to a springy mechanism that joins the back to the metal frame (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This narrow townhouse in Lisbon has bushy plants all over its body and a swimming pool on its roof. (more…) View the full article

This stool by Norwegian designer Hallgeir Homstvedt is held up by three slim, curved legs inspired by skateboards (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A home and studio for a photographer are contained inside this Corten steel bunker that Undercurrent Architects has squeezed beside and beneath the arch of a railway viaduct in south London. (more…) View the full article

Architects and designers including Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, MVRDV and Konstantin Grcic have designed a series of downloadable architectural structures that are just for dogs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: Dutch designer Richard Hutten has created a series of sofas and armchairs designed to resemble the icons on a smartphone screen. (more…) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: this movie shows how a custom printer continually updates a copy of the Open Source Architecture Manifesto Wikipedia entry, written on a wall in the entrance to the Adhocracy exhibition at the Istanbul Design Biennial. (more…) View the full article

A ball of cork provides the stopper for this glass container by Czech designer Martin Jakobsen. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: this new silver-faced version of the elegant Vigorelli watch by Matteo Ragni is now available to buy with FREE SHIPPING at Dezeen Watch Store. It features a square stainless steel case and a sloped inner ring, inspired by the iconic Vigorelli Velodrome built in Milan in 1935. The watch has a leather strap and can be bought online or over the phone. View the full article

The only windows at this concrete house in Moreira, Portugal, face one another across recessed patios. (more…) View the full article

The upper floors are stacked at right angles across garages at this fire station in the Netherlands by René van Zuuk Architekten. (more…) View the full article

Eindhoven design studio BCXSY used hand-blown glass in six grades of opacity, from transparent to white, to create a collection of glassware for Japanese design brand Inframince (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Black-stained cedar clads this weekend house at the beach in Chiba, Japan, by Tokyo studio BAKOKO (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This university building in Melbourne by Australian architects Lyons is covered in brightly coloured scales (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five books about Stanton Williams’ Sainsbury Laboratory, the winner of this year’s Stirling Prize. (more…) View the full article

Berlin-based product designer Dirk Winkel created this slim black desk lamp to show that plastic can be as solid and tactile as metal or wood. (more…) View the full article

It’s coming up to Dezeen’s sixth birthday and this week we’ve published our 10,000th story as well as our 100,000th reader comment! We’ve also gained our 200,000th Facebook follower, 100,000th Twitter follower and 40,000th Pinterest follower. Thanks to all our readers! View the full article

Plywood boards in a variety of colours generated the multi-tonal concrete facade of this house in Yokohama by Japanese architects no.555 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

UK designers David Ben Grünberg and Daniel Woolfson have devised a concept for a shape-shifting house that morphs to deal with changing times of day, seasons and weather conditions (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco. (more…) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: design duo Kram/Weisshaar used custom software to adapt and strengthen the branch-like metal joints of this collection of 3D printed furniture, currently on show at the Istanbul Design Biennial (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This table by Dutch designer Frederik Roijé has one top on three levels. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, east London designer Roger Arquer talks about the benches he made for the Stepney Green Design Collection using materials sourced from his local family-run hardware shop just before it closed down. (more…) View the full article