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News: students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have cleaned up at the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards this evening, with winning projects including a floating community centre for the Helsinki archipelago and a proposal to rebuild 250 Russian churches. (more...) View the full article

Nike has removed a balaclava from sale, after critics argued that the design enforces racial profiling and glamorises violence. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: from synthetic biology to 3D printing, technologies that could signal the future of fashion are demonstrated in garments and accessories at an exhibition in Eindhoven (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Haworth Tompkins has restored Bristol's Grade I-listed Old Vic theatre – the oldest continuously working theatre in the English speaking world – to create "a public room for the city". Read more

Design Holding, the new furniture and lighting group made up of B&B Italia, Flos and Louis Poulsen, has marked its first show at Salone del Mobile by presenting the biggest stand the Milan fair has seen in decades. Read more

The mirrored roof of this children's care centre by SATA reflects the surrounding treetops and west Ireland skies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Danish designer Isabel Ahm has designed a wooden table for mid-century-focused brand Warm Nordic, featuring trumpet-shaped legs and a concealed drawer. Read more View the full article

Canadian design firm Yabu Pushelberg has created a pink and cream pop-up store for Goop in its home city of Toronto with rustic accents designed to encapsulate the brand's identity. Read more

Interieur 2012: most festival helpers are kitted out with branded T-shirts but staff at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, wore geometric uniforms by Norwegian designer Damien Fredriksen Ravn, inspired by the event’s logo. (more…) View the full article

Beijing-based architecture studio Trace Architecture Office has completed the Xinzhai Coffee Manor complex in the Yunnan Province, China, which processes coffee from the surrounding hills and is a hotel for visitors to the area. Read more

London designer Ab Rogers believes this student housing project he recently completed in London could set a blueprint for compact modern living in the city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architecture firm Snøhetta has concluded the first phase of a major overhaul of New York's Times Square, continuing the initiative started in 2009 to pedestrianise large sections of the popular tourist destination. (more...) View the full article

Italian architect Andrea Dragoni has extended a cemetery in an ancient Italian town by adding rows of monumental travertine walls with public plazas and artworks slotted in between (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Shelves stagger along the walls of this Williamsburg apartment, which local architecture firm Buro Koray Duman designed for a Brooklyn couple with thousands of books. Read more

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has converted buildings in a former industrial district into a public library in Chicago, where original brick walls and bow trusses are on full display. Read more

Icelandic designer Katrin Olina describes how she translates characters from her imagination into drawings, animations, products and interiors in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Live at 100% Design. (more…) View the full article

The London Design Festival is over but we've still got plenty of great content from the event to come. See all our stories so far including our first Dezeen and MINI World Tour movie and read on for our pick festival highlights. (more...) View the full article

This movie shows the installation of MVRDV's Crystal Houses – a Chanel store featuring a traditional facade replicated with glass bricks that are "stronger than concrete". (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Grimshaw has announced its involvement in building a new Terminal One at Newark Airport, which serves New York City. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: Moooi's new Charleston Sofa, which is turned vertically on its end to form a swivel chair, is attracting lots of attention today as Milan's Salone del Mobile opens. Click through to see a selection of the best images posted to Instagram so far using our #milanogram2016 hashtag. (more…) View the full article

Hackney-based Studio Weave has constructed a network of listening pipes in a back courtyard of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital to create a secret factory of lullabies for children (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This time last year we revealed designs by BarberOsgerby for the London 2012 Olympic Torch, which went on to be named Design of the Year (see our interview with the designers here). Also in the news was a 3D-printed bikini, a house that turns into a fortress and a school that encouraged students to copy famous designs. (more…) View the full article

Organisers of the London Design Festival are discussing the fate of its flagship crazy golf project for Trafalgar Square after a Kickstarter fundraising campaign looked set to fail to meet its target. (more…) View the full article

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has hidden a bamboo-framed conference centre behind a fortified stone wall in the countryside outside Hanoi (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

US firm William Rawn Associates has created a series of buildings for a performing arts campus in western Massachusetts, where retractable glass walls allow music to spill outdoors. Read more