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News: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman’s 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the A’ Design Award is now accepting architecture, interior and design project submissions for this year’s competition. (more…) View the full article

In the first of three posts about the Digital Crystal exhibition at London’s Design Museum, we look at a mechanical projector built by London design studio Troika which uses Swarovski crystal lenses and LEDs to create portraits on the gallery wall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The hinged boxes of this bookcase by Korean furniture designer Lee Sehoon can be spun round to create a neat grid or a scattered circle (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen’s Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. (more…) View the full article

News: French designer Philippe Starck and timber engineering company Riko have announced a new venture manufacturing sustainable prefabricated wooden homes. (more…) View the full article

This movie by filmmakers Stretch documents the ongoing work by Cape Town studio Noero Architects to create a cultural centre within the barracks of Port Elizabeth that were once used as a concentration camp. (more…) View the full article

News: Dezeen featured in Apple‘s launch of the iPhone 5 today and makes an appearance in the movie demonstrating the new product. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen hosts a series of innovative daily live shows at 100% Design from 19-22 September with guests including trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, designers Katrin Olina (above), Philippe Malouin, Benjamin Hubert and Asif Khan, and writers and critics including Sam Jacob and Daniel Charny. (more…) View the full article

In the final movie we filmed with Reinier de Graaf of OMA at the Venice Architecture Biennale, he discusses the firm’s fascination with architecture of the late 1960s and how there is an “inherent paradox between the brutal appearance of these buildings and the social mission that they were part of.” (more…) View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have built an enormous woodland nesting box with 78 entrances for birds on one side and one big door for humans on the other (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Surfaces of marble and hardwood spread through the rooms of this renovated apartment in Madrid by Spanish architects Schneider Colao (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The aeroplanes of the future will be catapulted into the sky, fly in formation like birds along “express skyways” and glide into airports with their engines turned off, according to aviation company Airbus. (more…) View the full article

Photographer Jamie Young is compiling an archive to document the history of water towers in Ireland. (more…) View the full article

Budapest architects MARP have replaced the missing corner of a ruined Renaissance palace with a Corten steel lookout point. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: seven designers including Ross Lovegrove, Makkink & Bey, Greg Lynn and Nendo (above) will create installations at meeting places around this year’s Biennale Interieur, which will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20-28 October (+ movies). (more…) View the full article

Reinier de Graaf of OMA talks to Dezeen about ”architecture with a degree of social conscience” by anonymous local authority architects in France and Italy in the second of three movies we filmed at the firm’s Public Works exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen News: a British and American proposal for a new district built around manmade waterways has been selected as part of a masterplan to double the size of Moscow in the next few decades. (more…) View the full article

A perforated metal box encases the concrete visitor centre for the Atapuerca archaeological site in northern Spain by architects a3gm and Mata y asociados (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Berlin design fair Qubique has been postponed until 2013, the organisers have announced. (more…) View the full article

London cyclists can hang their bicycles on the walls while they grab a coffee or browse at this Soho store for cyclewear brand Rapha by design studio Brinkworth (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: Dezeen is at Maison & Objet in Paris this week and we have selected our top ten products exhibited at the design and interiors trade fair, including shelves that look like sheets of paper caught in the wind by Japanese studio YOY (image 1). (more…) View the full article

Static boardroom meetings will swing into action around this table with hanging chairs created by Christopher Duffy for British design brand Duffy London. (more…) View the full article

A series of prints based on sketches by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Pierre Charpin will be presented at design store twentytwentyone next week as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

London design brand Hulger has launched a mini version of its award-winning Plumen 001 lightbulb and it’ll be available at Dezeen Super Store from Friday. (more…) View the full article