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New York designer Alvaro Uribe has created a stool by bending carbon fibre-reinforced plastic into a seat and two legs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Timber louvres and shutters form a protective shell across the exterior of this apartment building in Istanbul by Turkish studio Alataş Architecture & Consulting. (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Masato Sekiya elevated this house so that it would fit over the humped site in Ashiya, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Creative agency iris has unveiled Wenlock (right) and Mandeville, the mascots for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These half-plastic, half-wicker waste paper bins by German designer Cordula Kehrer for American brand Areaware are made with the Aeta people of the Philippines. (more…) View the full article

Swedish designers Marcus Abrahamsson Kristoffer Fagerström have created this bench with a seat made of stacked pine batons for outdoor furniture brand Nola. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have teamed up with Japanese designers Nendo to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Ghost Stories, a three-year observation of the studio by photographer Higuchi Kenichi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview we filmed at Dezeen Space, Munich industrial designer Florian Schmid talks about his stools made of canvas that’s impregnated with concrete. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

3Gatti Architecture Studio’s Red Object in a Shanghai office was one of our most popular stories this week, so here’s a roundup of all the offices we’ve featured on Dezeen. See all the stories » </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

Dezeen movies: here are the highlights of the second panel discussion at Dornbracht Conversations 3, featuring creative director Mike Meiré, critic Thomas Wagner, architect and designer Matteo Thun and moderator Marcus Fairs of Dezeen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects C. F. Møller have won a competition to build a new state prison on the island of Falster in Denmark. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: visitors to the Romanian Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello at the Venice Architecture Biennale are invited to experience the population density of Bucharest, one at a time. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm designer Fredrik Paulsen presented this table with adjustable, folded-metal legs at Venture Lambrate in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Twisted bricks create openings in the walls of a speakeasy-style bar in Bangkok, allowing passers-by a sneaky glimpse inside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pop-up shops might be commonplace in retail but would you consider getting married in a pop-up chapel made of cardboard? (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ignorance, indifference and inadequate regulation led to the Grenfell Tower disaster, not its cladding alone, claims a new report, which does not recommend a ban on the combustable building materials blamed for the fire. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the third movie made by Dezeen in 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, architects Neville Mars and Marco Casagrande explain their projects. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This fair-faced concrete house was designed by Arhitektura Krušec to look like rocks emerging from a sloped meadow facing the Slovenian Alps (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges is next up in our series of movies from Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents filmed at imm cologne earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie shows an installation by designer Bobby Petersen at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where chairs were programmed to play music when visitors sat on them. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul designers KAMKAM have created this cabinet based on the ratio of standard paper sizes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US architecture firm William Kaven Architecture has stepped a black house with expansive balconies down a wooded ground to overlook an Oregon forest. Read more View the full article

Slabs of folded concrete give this cultural centre by São Paulo Arquitetura a seemingly impenetrable appearance, but hidden behind its windowless walls are light-filled galleries and a plant-lined gully (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian architect Andrea Paoletti has completed the interior of a workspace in Rovereto, Italy, that’s shared by entrepreneurs from a variety of fields. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article