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London Design Festival 2010: British designer Jasper Morrison unveiled his design for footwear brand Camper at his east London shop last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design studio Beta Tank have designed a chair with moving panels that transform it from a functional object (on which tax is payable at 19%) to an art object (tax payable at 7%). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are the five most viewed Dezeen stories from June this year. In first place was the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Crowd-sourcing design brand Made.com of London have launched these simple bikes with coloured wheel rims. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A stark concrete multi-purpose space occupies the ground floor of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This huge nest with a retractable staircase by Swedish designers Inrednin Gsgruppen forms part of a hotel in the trees in northern Sweden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed another topical robot-shaped survival suit, this time intended to protect people from radiation leaking from nuclear power stations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Dezeen readers were utterly outraged by a range of beer packaged inside dead animals. Apart from those who found it really, really funny… London mayor Boris Johnson launched the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, Herzog & de Meuron unveiled an apartment tower for Beirut and Tokujin Yoshioka filled a 15 metre-long tank with flying feathers. Dezeen launched a new comments system, which readers put to use by drooling over a concrete coffee machine, disputing the feasibility of a clock with batteries for hands and ridiculing the London Gate project. See all our stories from July 2010 » See our review of last year » </img></img&g…

This step ladder by Latvian designer Arthur Analts can rest flat against the wall, fit into a corner at 45 degrees or rest securely in a corner at 25 degrees, thanks to the shape of its top and bottom rungs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sci-fi animation in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced this evening. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in our second movie celebrating this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, WAF programme director Paul Finch explains why the super-jury headed by architect Robert Stern selected the Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects as World Building of the Year 2008 in the festival’s inaugural year. (more…) View the full article

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have uncovered three underground concrete tanks at the Tate Modern gallery in London to create new spaces for art and performance, which open this week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Two console tables by Japanese designer Yuki Matsumoto can be leant against each other and linked by their drawers. (more…) View the full article

A chequerboard of solid and void cloaks the tapered glass walls of this bank in Innsbruck by Austrian architect Rainer Köberl (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The only way to watch a film at this unconventional cinema in Guimarães, Portugal, is by manoeuvring your upper body into one of 16 downward-pointing nozzles. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs wonders why London's Design Museum is so reluctant to talk about money, arguing that design classics "aren't theoretical exercises but sophisticated appeals to the wallet." (more...) View the full article

News: Rem Koolhaas' studio OMA has been selected to masterplan a business and residential development linking the city of Doha in Qatar with the new Hamad International Airport. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: British designers Industrial Facility will unveil these three-legged stools for Italian design brand Mattiazzi in Milan this week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio nano Architects has inserted a sunken circular living room into a 1960s apartment in Fukuoka (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A bulky concrete first floor balances above pale brick walls and tall grasses at this family house in Brazil by São Paulo architect Guilherme Torres (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER) is calling for architecture and interior projects that use Spanish ceramics to enter this year's Tile of Spain Awards. (more...) View the full article

News: Australian police have seized weapons created on a 3D printer while raiding a property in Gold Coast, Queensland. (more…) View the full article

Modernist architects working in tropical climates are increasingly designing homes where you can't tell if you're indoors or outdoors. In this special feature we explore the trend and speak to a Brazilian architect responsible for a series of spectacular homes that blur the distinction between home and garden (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

A sheltered deck separates the bedroom from the living spaces of this tiny home in a suburb of Brisbane (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architect Frank Gehry has submitted new plans for a hotel and apartment complex to be located across the road from his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. (more...) View the full article