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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

Product news: tapered legs support the curved seat and backrest of this wooden chair by Bangkok designers Slap Studio for Thai design brand Curio. (more…) View the full article

This doctor's surgery in the Austrian Alps by Graz-based architects Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher was inspired by small wooden hay barns that dot the local landscape (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The panel behind this stark matte steel sink has a patch in the centre that's been polished to shine like a mirror. (more...) View the full article

Clean white walls contrast with the stripped-back columns and beams of these offices inside a former factory in Turin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch city Nijmegen has launched a catalogue of affordable architect-designed housing kits for first-time buyers. (more...) View the full article

The Dezeen and MINI World Tour team landed in New York this week - check out our first movie report with designer Stephen Burks talking about how the city is evolving and watch out for more movies from our trip soon. Meanwhile here are the week's highlights in architecture and design plus track of the week from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Argentinean studio Adamo-Faiden has overhauled an ageing townhouse in Buenos Aires with the addition of a rooftop courtyard and an underground yoga room. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: despite significant improvements last year, architecture's archaic equality problems haven't gone away. The American Institute of Architects' decision to award its 2015 Gold Medal to another mature white man isn't helping, says Alexandra Lange. (more…) View the full article

Chevron motifs taken from military uniforms are interspersed around this cafe at London's Royal Arsenal Riverside by Paul Crofts Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: London studio Industrial Facility has created a range of stacking containers to store desktop items for American office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller. (more...) View the full article

News: architect Norman Foster has revealed how late Apple CEO Steve Jobs called him "out of the blue" in 2009 to invite him to design the Apple Campus 2 with the words "Hi Norman, I need some help." (more...) View the full article

Opinion: as MoMA launches an online exhibition investigating design's relationship with violence, Dezeen columnist Justin McGuirk looks beyond objects like 3D-printed guns and drones to ask "what do our weapons say about the systems they support?" (more...) View the full article

News: architect Santiago Calatrava is facing legal action from his home city of Valencia because parts of the opera house roof at his City of Arts and Sciences complex are falling off just eight years after completion. (more...) View the full article

A landscape of stepped boxes covered in sisal displays products at this Barcelona boutique by local firm Arquitectura-G. (more...) View the full article

News: the latest celebrity to dip their toes into design is hip-hop artist Snoop, who has teamed up with holiday rental website Airbnb to create a pop-up house during next week's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. (more...) View the full article

An instrument played by hitting a series of rocks has been created by designers at Italian research group Fabrica for a member of their music team's latest album (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio MVRDV has transformed a neoclassical chapel into the main entrance for a museum of modern art in Schiedam, the Netherlands, adding bright red shelves between the listed building's existing features (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The second project on Dezeen this week by Japanese studio UID Architects is a small gallery in Fukuyama surrounded by timber fins (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Philippe Starck, UNStudio and Herzog & de Meuron, whose extension to the Messe Basel exhibition centre is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Lee Broom, Anglepoise®, and more... (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has created an installation in Paris' Jardins des Tuileries composed of suspended metal cubes and plants, for the FIAC art fair. (more...) View the full article

Corrugated polycarbonate panels create varying levels of insulation around the exterior of this Spanish house by local architects Casos de Casas, designed to be comfortable for residents throughout the year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The exhibition of work by fashion's late enfant-terrible Alexander McQueen first shown in New York has been expanded for London's V&A museum (+ slideshow). (more…)

Architecture and landscape firm Snøhetta has been appointed to develop plans for a new public access route along Willamette Falls in Oregon, the second largest waterfall in the US (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

By lowering the ceiling of this London home, Scenario Architecture has created a view between the living room and the roof terrace, allowing parents to keep an eye on their children when they play outside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article