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British designers BarberOsgerby present seven sculptural pieces based on boats, planes and satellites at Haunch of Venison gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some photos of the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Foster + Partners. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Hayato Komatsu has completed the interiors for this clinic in Hiroshima, Japan, which is located within a shopping centre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish design student Annika Göransson has created a sofa inspired by an oyster shell and using traditional upholstery techniques. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Benjamin Hubert‘s Pod chair for Dutch company De Vorm received the 100% Design Award in Rotterdam last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week last year two architectures students unveiled plans for a company that enables illegal migration and our most popular and controversial story was about a giant, latticed canopy by J. Mayer H. that was described as clumsy, grotesque and overbearingly monumental, as well as sublime and gutsy. Our readers also had a lot to say about an anvil-shaped museum with a windowless tiled facade, which many thought bore an uncanny resemblance to Selfridges in Birmingham. Over in Tokyo, architect Emmanuelle Moureaux completed another project with her trademark rainbow of colours, this time a bank, while back in the Dezeen office we were busy deciding which colour gradients …

Architects Bjorn Gudbrandsson and Egill Guðmundsson of Reykjavik firm Arkís have completed the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This mobile made up of intertwined steel branches is by Japanese designer Koichi Futatsumata of Case-Real. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Jasper Morrison will show his Lightwood Chair for Japanese company Maruni as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch firm Most Architecture have created this temporary office from wooden pallets for an Amsterdam advertising company. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plywood shingles create fish scales on the walls of a clothes store at Bondi Beach, Sydney, while spherical lights hang from the ceiling inside fishermen’s nets. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The facade of this single family house near Basel by Swiss architects andOFFICE steps back to frame a wooden terrace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish firm ADEPT and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto have won a competition to design a library for the Högskolan Dalarna university campus in Falun, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm architecture studio Tengbom has added a zinc-clad extension to a traditional brick courthouse building in the Swedish town of Alingsås (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including open-source eyewear, impossible buildings and Kengo Kuma’s take on Starbucks. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, plus all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Milan designer Denis Guidone to offer our readers the chance to win an Ora (il)Legale clock. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To celebrate the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei we’ve compiled all our stories about his work in one place. Ai Weiwei was missing for 81 days after being detained by authorities at Beijing airport on 3 April. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: these lamps with a mechanism derived from marking tools were among a collection of furniture presented by German designer Bao-Nghi Droste at imm cologne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Jay Merrick interviews London architects Muf, curators of the British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale that opens later this month - Independent </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a coat for workers on the Wadden Sea World Heritage site, with detachable solar panels on the pockets for charging electronic devices (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales added this steeply-pitched roof to an old dry stone construction in the Spanish Pyrenees to form two homes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This weekend designer Gareth Neal will create picnic areas around east London with furniture covered in intricate marquetry. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Toronto architect Philip Beesley has installed a forest of acrylic fronds that move as though breathing inside the Canada pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article