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Competition: we’ve teamed up with British designer Tom Dixon to give away five copies of his new book, entitled Extremism, to coincide with Multiplex at the Dock as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors enter this nursery in northeast France through a curving concrete orifice. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Greek architects K-studio have completed a rustic pizzeria modelled on an Italian courtyard in the centre of Athens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: next up in our Hackney design showcase is a conservatory with a five fingered roof that Shoreditch architects Spacelab installed at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2004. (more…) View the full article

These bronze and glass chambers by Estonian studio NOBEL Arkitekter protect two ancient runestones in Jelling, Denmark, from the elements. (more…) View the full article

German designer Sarah Böttger scaled the same rectangular shape up and down to create this tubular metal hall stand. (more…) View the full article

Job of the week this week on Dezeen Jobs is an opportunity for an industrial designer at clothing brand G-Star RAW in Amsterdam. For more roles in design and architecture see our full selection of positions at Dezeen Jobs. (more…) View the full article

News: while Foster + Partners thinks simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York’s Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM have proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: American designer Victor Vetterlein has made an edible desk lamp. (more…) View the full article

News: Foster + Partners is exploring the possibilities of 3D printing buildings on the moon using lunar soil. (more...) View the full article

Google's Field Trip app, which provides contextual information about your surroundings via your smartphone, is now available to download for Apple iOS and features content from Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec present a courtyard installation of rotating cork platforms for car brand BMW i (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian design brand Pedrali showcased its selection of wooden furniture at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has revealed his competition-winning design for a campus of timber buildings to house the headquarters of watch brands Swatch and Omega in Biel, Switzerland. (more...) View the full article

Dutch costume designer Lisa Louwers turns unwanted fur coats into soft toys as a tribute to the animals that the material was taken from (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid's extension to the Serpentine Gallery in London is to open on 28 September. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has designed and curated an exhibition at the city's Spritmuseum dedicated to the culture of making and drinking beer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Patrick Blanc, the inventor of living walls, has completed his latest vertical garden, covering the side of a five-storey Parisian block with waves of 7600 plants (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

White and black painted patches create artificial shafts of light and shadows on the walls of this salon in Japan by Tokyo studio Takara Space Design. (more...) View the full article

This wooden bike by Dutch company PedalFactory that arrives flat-packed and can be assembled in under an hour is now in production (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our last Dezeen Mail this year leads with the recently opened Stonehenge Visitor Centre and also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 183 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Bags of rice and bottled condiments are displayed on simple plywood units inside this former Tokyo greengrocers that has been converted into a tiny rice shop, cafe and a home for the proprietor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British studio Snook Architects has overhauled a dilapidated eighteenth-century barn in Yorkshire to create a modern home with chunky wooden trusses, exposed brickwork and a double-height family kitchen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scottish studio Konishi Gaffney has constructed a huge dormer window to convert the loft of a terraced house in Edinburgh into an extra bedroom. (more...) View the full article

A suspended steel staircase is completed by a piece of wooden furniture in this renovated Oslo loft by London studio Haptic (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article