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Dezeen Wire: plans to develop the London 2012 Olympic Park after the Games end in September were unveiled by mayor of London Boris Johnson yesterday, including the transformation of the press centre into a technology, design and research centre, and the creation of up to 8000 new homes in addition to the athletes’ village (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

New Zealand architects Studio Pacific have created public toilets shaped like headless dinosaurs in Wellington (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: Nike Flywire cables that tighten on impact are built into these shoes specifically designed by Nike for running the 1500m track event, as described by the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti in the last movie of our Nike+ House of Innovation series commissioned by Nike. (more…) View the full article

Writer and artist Clo’e Floirat‘s comical-satirical drawings of London 2012 Olympic venues are now available at Dezeen Super Store as part of London design month. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: psychology is on an equal footing with technological advances when designing sportswear to improve an athlete’s performance, Nike‘s creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti told the audience at a talk hosted by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at the Nike+ House of Innovation at Selfridges last night. “It’s not just about lightweight,” he said. “It’s about looking good as well as the psychological element. We see performance on all levels: environmental performance, psychological performance, physical performance.” (more…) View the full article

Car brand BMW has designed a folding electric bicycle. (more…) View the full article

Tornados would pose no threat to this conceptual house by architects 10 Design, which can tuck itself beneath the ground just like a turtle retracts its vulnerable head away from danger (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Austrian architects WG3 have designed a mobile hotel room that could be delivered to all kinds of outdoor locations. (more…) View the full article

Movie: digital graphics company Crystal CG created this animated video to accompany the Chemical Brothers’ specially commissioned song, which is played before each session in the Velodrome during the London 2012 Olympics. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid’s streamlined glass and concrete government building in Montpellier (above) heads up the lastest issue of Dezeen Mail, along with new jobs, competitions, movies and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 113 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Birds’ nests inspired the facade of this Singapore cafe by designers Outofstock, where eggs are served all day. (more…) View the full article

Movie: the base and sock lining of these lightweight football boots by Nike are made of castor beans, as explained in our next movie with the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti ahead of this evening’s exclusive event at the Nike+ House of Innovation at Selfridges. (more…) View the full article

Prints of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre by photographer Luke Hayes are now on display in The Changing Room, a space at Dezeen Super Store that is given over to a different creative each week to showcase their products or artwork. (more…) View the full article

Architects Swatt Miers have suspended three glass pavilions over the edge of a valley in northern California (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: an exhibition of design for sports is on show at the Design Museum in London to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics. (more…) View the full article

Australian architect Andrew Burns has completed a pointy gallery and studio for artists-in-residence in Japan to replace one that was destroyed during the major earthquake of last year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: digital graphics company Crystal CG has sent us its animated flights over the city that TV broadcasters are using to zoom between venues for the London 2012 Olympics. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Dutch architects MVRDV will create 676 miniature LEGO towers at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this month for an exhibition to promote the inclusion of architectural discourse within European Union development policies. (more…) View the full article

Drivers crossing the border from Canada into the USA at Calais, Maine, would never know that there’s a tranquil rock garden sandwiched between the checkpoint buildings designed by New York firm Robert Siegel Architects. (more…) View the full article

Movie: basketball games have become so aggressive that sports brand Nike decided to include combat pads in its latest kit, explains the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti in the next Dezeen movie in anticipation of tomorrow’s exclusive event at the Nike+ House of Innovation. (more…) View the full article

Swiss studio Bernhard Burkard assures us this deck chair with no back legs is perfectly safe. (more…) View the full article

A dormer window provides a first-floor observatory at this gabled lodge in the Czech Republic by A1 Architects of Prague. (more…) View the full article

Design collective Assemble and a team of volunteers have constructed a temporary theatre in West Sussex, England, out of scaffolding, chipboard and plastic pond liner (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stars are printed in the sand by a tractor as it drags a giant roller back and forth across the beach, then left to fade at the mercy of footsteps and the tide in this installation by Swedish designer Gunilla Klingberg. (more…) View the full article

Construction is underway on a Olympic-themed museum in Tianjin, China, comprising five connected rings. (more…) View the full article