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Istanbul Design Biennial: this project by Antwerp design studio Unfold explores how 3D-printed objects created from identical digital files can be as varied and unique as hand-made objects (+ movie + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can get a 35% discount on a new book of speculative architectural drawings and designs, curated by artists Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb and published by Lawrence King. (more…) View the full article

News: Michigan State University has unveiled the first photographs of its Zaha Hadid-designed museum of contemporary art, which opens to the public next month. (more…) View the full article

The backrest of this chair by Dutch designers Oato seems to be simply wedged between its criss-crossing legs. (more…) View the full article

A faceted wrapping of aluminium looms over the platforms at this high-speed railway station in northern Spain by Abalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A grid of red sandstone panels dominates every side of this university library in Katowice, Poland, by architects HS99 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the future of books in the digital age in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month, where a bookstore he designed in Japan won the prize in the shopping centres category. (more…) View the full article

The deep-framed windows of this office building by French studio Chartier-Corbasson Architectes burst through mossy walls and piles of stone beside a 100-year old mansion in Amiens. (more…) View the full article

The steps of an adjacent vineyard inspired Dutch architects UNStudio to generate the inclining profile of this house in Stuttgart (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Visitors to the Adhocracy show at the Istanbul Design Biennial are confronted with a plotter taking the text of the Open Source Architecture Manifesto from a Wikipedia page and writing it onto a wall. (+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

Valencia-based Estudio Sputnik has launched its first collection, which includes a stool and table inspired by a Russian satellite (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week: London-based designer Julia Lohmann thinks dried strips of seaweed could replace leather, paper and plastic to make everyday objects like these laser-cut kelp lampshades (+ audio + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Towering steel mushrooms create a layered canopy over the roof of this glazed office block in Tbilisi, Georgia, by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: new technologies are causing a “cultural revolution” that will transform the way objects are made and the way they look, according to the curator of Adhocracy, a new exhibition exploring the impact of digital networks and open-source thinking on the design world (+ interview transcript). (more…) View the full article

“The social challenge of designing a laboratory is almost as demanding as the technical challenge,” Stanton Williams‘ Alan Stanton told Dezeen at the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize award ceremony this weekend, where his firm picked up the big prize for their design of the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, England (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

Rather than varnish these wooden chairs to colour and protect them, Japanese designers Nendo chose to wrap them in hundreds of metres of fishing line. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: ”No one’s ever seen anything like it before,” director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects Chris Wilkinson tells Dezeen in this movie we filmed overlooking the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore, which was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month. (more…) View the full article

News: Apple has agreed to pay Swiss railway operator SBB an undisclosed amount for copying its trademark station clock design (above) in the new iPad, reports Bloomberg. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with UNStudio (whose V on Shenton skyscraper is pictured above), Wiel Arets Architects and The School of Life, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with MAD, G Star Raw, Philips and more… (more…) View the full article

Garments and accessories are sparingly displayed in a three-dimensional grid of white steel cubes at this boutique in Osaka by NI&Co. Architects. (more…) View the full article

Hackney studio Gort Scott used locally quarried stone for the rugged grey walls of this house on the Isle of Man, UK (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design students Jaan Evart, Julian Hagen and Daniël Maarleveld took an old inkjet printer apart and replaced its ink cartridge with felt pens to create an experimental printer, which they presented at Vienna Design Week. (more…) View the full article

London-based designer Oscar Diaz launched this industrial looking stainless steel bottle opener at the Project No. 8 shop in New York this week. (more…) View the full article

Spanish designer Martí Guixé squeezed bottles of paint over this white rug from Spanish brand Nanimarquina as part of an exhibition at Vienna Design Week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Stripy glass screens obscure views between rooms at this dental clinic in Torres Vedras, Portugal, by MMVArquitecto (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article