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Architect Roberto Palomba describes his firm's approach to renovating the Palazzo Daniele hotel in Puglia, Italy, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Read more View the full article

London photography studio Hufton + Crow has revealed new photographs of downtown Miami's One Thousand Museum tower by Zaha Hadid Architects. Read more View the full article

These five houses in San Francisco are traditional in the front and have contemporary extensions in the back. Read more View the full article

SOdA School of Design is presenting Liquid Memory, an exhibition of student work, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

The creative director of design studio Framework has turned a neglected 19th-century warehouse in Amsterdam into a plush family home for his wife and two children. Read more View the full article

New York firm No Architecture has designed this house in Oregon's Willamette Valley wine country around a glazed garden fill with deciduous trees. Read more View the full article

In our fourth and final movie made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad describes how he tailored the exhibition to the gallery space. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week ten of Virtual Design Festival features talks with architects and designers including Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom and Winy Maas, as well as collaborations with brands such as Stellar Works, Vitra and Rado, and organisations Mindcraft, London Festival of Architecture and What Design Can Do. Read more View the full article

DezeenTV: in the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents young Canadian designer Philippe Malouin talks about the inspiration he finds in art and architecture and also talks us through some of his own work. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This office in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by Fei Wang of Atelier Ten, features a staircase that narrows from four metres wide at its foot to two metes at the top. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: the Design Products department at the Royal College of Art in London have launched a collection of pieces for sale, designed by the course’s graduates. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Facet Studio have completed the interior of a vintage shop in Osaka, Japan, using cedarwood, rice paper and linen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Moving on to our top five Dezeen stories from August this year, this house with a spiralling concrete slide by Indonesian architects Aboday was also our most popular story of the whole year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has designed a product that allows users to control their TV from their iPhone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: over on Dezeen Screen we’ve just published another beautiful video by Gwenael Lewis for Canadian lighting company Bocci. This one features the 28 Series chandelier being installed at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi in Milan earlier this month, during the city’s international furniture fair. Watch the movie </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The interior of this cycling shop in Athens by React Architects of Greece is clad in bands of oriented strand board and artificial turf. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: since this mask by Didier Faustino that clamps over the faces of a kissing couple (bottom left) was so hotly debated this week, we’ve compiled all of stories from the Dezeen archive about masks and disguises. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo will draw black and white floorboards that appear to flow around plinths for their solo show at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute later this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen in Israel: this chair by designer Ezri Tarazi is formed when a concrete-filled mannequin is dropped onto it from above. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna with proposals that include facade-climbing staircases and giant balloons. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Movie: this timelapse movie by architectural photographer Paul Raftery and director Dan Lowe shows the final stages of construction for London skyscraper The Shard, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. (more…) View the full article

Browse the best cafes from the pages of Dezeen in our latest board on Pinterest. We’ve now got over 11,000 followers on Pinterest and you can follow us here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring courtyards on Dezeen » View the full article

Smell is the most persuasive sense, according to Canadian designers Studio NminusOne, which explains why they’ve designed a mannequin that makes clothes smell of the person looking at them (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The popularity of a staircase designed for dogs (bottom right) we published this week reminded us that pets often creep into architecture and interior photo shoots on Dezeen, so we’ve compiled them all into our latest Pinterest board dedicated to animals. Over 26,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See all the stories that feature animals on Dezeen » View the full article

London Design Festival: London design journalist and photographer Barbara Chandler has selected ten of her favourite photographs from this year’s London Design Festival, including portraits of Martino Gamper, Industrial Facility and Tord Boontje. (more…) View the full article