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Dezeen Watch Store: British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has designed his first watch for Italian accessories brand NAVA. Plicate, named after its pleated surfaces, is now available for pre-order with free shipping from Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid’s newly completed Galaxy Soho development in Beijing (above) leads this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which includes all the best stories and reader comments from the past seven days plus the latest news, jobs and competitions. Read Dezeen Mail issue 125 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Interieur 2012: British designer Ross Lovegrove presented a futuristic concept car shaped according to instinct rather than science at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Hundreds of perforations are dotted across the monolithic facade of this weekend house outside Mexico City by AS/D Asociación de Diseño. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week: twenty-five designers set up their own production lines inside a former textile factory in the Netherlands last week, making furniture, lighting, clothes, shoes, food, paper and more with the help of visitors. (more…) View the full article

A loosely curving wall of timber shingles spirals around this visitor centre that Dutch studio Emma Architecten has constructed beside one of the coastal batteries of Amsterdam’s historic defence line (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Danish studio Space Copenhagen has overhauled the interior of Copenhagen eatery Noma, which was this year named “World’s Best Restaurant” for the third time in a row (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British designer David Irwin has created pentagonal pendant lights that are bound together by silicon bands for design company Deadgood. (more…) View the full article

French designer Marie-Virginie Berbet has designed a sleeping capsule for taking power naps at the office. (more…) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: German designer Annika Frye incorporated a cordless drill in the rotational moulding machine she built for making one-off items using a process that would normally result in an identical series (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

South Korean firm Mass Studies has developed a system of five pre-cast concrete modules for building South Korea’s answer to California’s Silicon Valley, starting with this flexible headquarters building for internet company Daum (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Happy Halloween! We’ve added all of the most frightening designs featured on Dezeen onto our latest Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Dezeen promotion: four design trade shows will take place as part of The May Design Series at exhibition centre ExCel London in May 2013 and the organisers are now accepting applications from exhibitors. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week: architect Brian Peters has adapted a desktop 3D printer to produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

We are now offering FREE SHIPPING on all UK orders at Dezeen Watch Store. Visit the store for our full selection of carefully curated timepieces by leading designers and independent brands including Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro (pictured above). (more…) View the full article

Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across at its widest point. (more…) View the full article

News: experimental architect and artist Lebbeus Woods has died at the age of 72. (more…) View the full article

A louvred wooden X-shape filled with staircases connects the two laboratory wings of this scientific research centre by architects Lyons at the Australian National University in Canberra (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This swinging sofa by Berlin-based Studio Aisslinger for design brand Vitra isn’t meant for the garden or conservatory but for weary workers in the office. (more…) View the full article

East London designer Lee Broom talks about making lamps from crystal decanters and how east London’s history and street culture make it an important creative hub in this movie we filmed for the Stepney Green Design Collection. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: American architect and designer Greg Lynn has created a prototype for a motorised compact-living cocoon that rotates to provide space for relaxing, sleeping and bathing (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Threads and glue replace joints and screws in the furniture that emerges from a custom-made machine designed by Royal College of Art graduate Anton Alvarez (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Part of this wooden house in Japan by mA-style architects is lifted off the ground and curved like the hull of a boat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and Areaware have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five white Balancing Blocks sets of wooden toys, signed by the designers Fort Standard. (more…) View the full article

News: Apple is to bring its hardware and software design teams closer together as part of a major shake-up of its management team. The move follows claims that the company is “a little bit behind” in integrating industrial and digital design. (more…) View the full article