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Movie: New York designer Dror Benshetrit discusses the limited-edition foldable wine rack he designed for Brancott Estate in our second movie for the New Zealand wine brand. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving 40 readers a code to fast-track designs created for Kram/Weisshaar's Robochop installation, which allows users to remotely control a robotic arm that shapes cubes of foam into furniture (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Portland studio Architecture Building Culture has created a gabled structure to accommodate more residents at a local communal home for new mothers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Plans for a new outpost of the Guggenheim museum in Helsinki have been thrown into doubt, as the Finnish government refuses funding for the Moreau Kusunoki Architectes-designed project. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Dutch designer Richard Hutten will launch a multicoloured chair made from 545 stacked layers of Kvadrat's fabric in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen's architecture and design movies had a staggering 2.2 million plays in 2012 and we've rounded up the ten most popular ones for you here. (more...) View the full article

A beam of orange light slices through a blacked-out gallery inside Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton building, in an exhibition by Olafur Eliasson that aims to skew viewers' perceptions of space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Mexican designer Moisés Hernández' dipped his Immersed Birds collection in dye to emulate the plumage of tropical fauna. Read more View the full article

Product news: Copenhagen design firm KiBiSi designed this low-energy pendant lamp by scaling up the shape of a classic light bulb. (more...) View the full article

Paris designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have installed a chandelier at the entrance to the Château de Versailles, France, comprising looping cords of illuminated crystal (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Pritzker Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes worked with Neolith sintered stone to create the colour-washed walls and surfaces inside the new restaurant of former elBulli head chef Albert Adrià. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Pornhub launched its Dirtiest Porn Ever campaign to remove plastic from the oceans, and BMW released a Vantablack version of its X6 coupe. Read more

Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. (more...) View the full article

A corrugated steel roof supported by bamboo columns provides shelter for three buildings, a bicycle workshop and a playground at this community centre in India (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: director Matteo Zamagni – also known as øøøø – created landscapes of imagined planets by manipulating photographs of cabbage, plastic bags and broccoli in his video for TSVI’s song Malfunction (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

An Ode To Manmade Land is a pair of viewpoints designed by Vector-I Architects on a man-made dyke at the Lauwersmeer National Park, in the Netherlands. Read more

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Carlo Ratti have collaborated on a celestial mapping robot that brings together their hit design brands Little Sun and Scribit. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers think Sebastian Errazuriz's claims that architects will be replaced by AI are unfounded. Read more View the full article

Pereen d'Avoine of Russian for Fish, Studio Bark's Sarah Broadstock and recent graduate Samiur Rahman, will discuss the motivations of architects entering the profession on a panel at Knauf's London showroom. Watch the talk from 7:00pm UK time. Read more

Product news: French designer Sébastien Cordoleani has created a range of wall-mounted containers and hooks for Parisian brand Moustache. (more...) View the full article

The bulbous lower level of this residence in Thailand by local studio Architectkidd looks like it's being squished by the rectilinear storey above it (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Danish firm BIG has unveiled plans to install a wooden maze with a concave surface inside the National Building Museum in Washington DC. (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are struggling to take comparisons between the first space hotel and cruise ships seriously. Read more

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has built a showroom and production facility for a Japanese furniture manufacturer, which features both translucent undulating walls and a simple rectangular roof. (more…) View the full article

Our interview with rendering guru Peter Guthrie leads this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, followed by Gehry and Foster's Battersea collaboration plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 175 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article