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Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (above) is one of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This residential building for the riverbank in St. Petersburg by Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has been approved for construction. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: at his shop in London this week Jasper Morrison presents this telephone he’s designed for Swiss brand Punkt. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have teamed up with Laurence King Publishing to give readers the chance to win three copies of Planning Office Spaces by Juriaan van Meel, Yuri Martens and Hermen Jan van Ree. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul designers KAMKAM have designed a collection of felt-covered furniture that can be fastened using buttons, belts and zips. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese firm A+R Arquitectos installed this staircase with floating wooden treads and a zig-zag hand rail as part of the renovation of a Portuguese house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Benjamin Hubert has created this laptop bag which expands to become an overnight bag, in collaboration with Nava. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Suspended vending machines dispense plastic tubes containing coloured T-shirts in this Sydney shop by Facet Studio of Sydney and Osaka. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian studio Molo has designed a system of paper partitions that provide privacy at shelters in the wake of a disaster. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: designer Lee Broom launches a collection of upholstery with studded detailing at his east London studio this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Eindhoven, the ringing of an alarm clock triggers a chain of events that opens umbrellas, spins paper windmills, starts a fire and releases a set of parachuting toy animals. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction has begun on an aluminium-clad museum in Norway by Danish architecture studios COBE and Transform. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul, Korea, that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson created a fictional model of a home in Berlin for twentieth century writer Walter Benjamin, exhibited at Dezeen Platform last autumn. Here he explains the ideas behind his project. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish furniture brand IKEA have installed a temporary lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about kettles by famous designers as part of our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Dutch design brand Droog has opened a hotel in Amsterdam where guests who venture out from their rooms can attend lectures, visit exhibitions and shops or relax in a ”fairy-tale garden” without leaving the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: Dezeen editor Rose Etherington selects her top ten projects from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week, including a system for decontaminating polluted land using plants and a method for turning debris from demolished buildings into new construction materials. (more…) View the full article

A chequerboard of opaque panels and windows surrounds this school canteen in western Germany by SpreierTrenner Architekten (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: an exhibition of the Design Museum's permanent collection has opened at the museum in London. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob explains why YouTube movies of consumers ritualistically unpacking their purchases "bring a sharp eye to the designed world". (more...) View the full article

Sloping exhibition rooms fold around curvy courtyards and a fish pond at this art gallery in Beijing - the first completed project by new studio Daipu Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This holiday home in upstate New York by US firm Gluck+ features an elevated living room that hovers nine metres above the ground (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Californian designer Chad Wright has made a sandcastle mould of a typical American house to recreate post-war suburbia on the beach (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Products by young local designers are displayed against the rough ochre walls of this boutique in Katowice, Poland, designed Joanna Wołoszyn and Daria Barnaś (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article