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Sarah Reinbold is exhibiting Zwischen Hier und Dort, a collection of ceramic and plaster sculptures, during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

A medical illustrator behind the first 3D images of the coronavirus particle has spoken to Dezeen about how his team branded an invisible disease that "needed an identity". Read more View the full article

Six students from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico have designed low-cost solar lamps made from mud, beans and cactus slime for people living in isolated rural areas with limited electricity. Read more View the full article

In Milan next month Copenhagen design collective KiBiSi will launch a folded metal chair for design brand Quinze & Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Micha Weidmann, a graphic designer, typographer and art director who created the Dezeen logo, will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime discussion as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: interactive designers Jason Bruges Studio of London have sent us a video of their Mimosa installation, featuring light panels that open and close like flowers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Tord Bootje presents a collection of work made with lace-making techniques from materials including grass and raffia at the Marsden Woo Gallery in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house on a wedge of land in Shiga, Japan, is by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm architects Mats Edlund and Henrietta Palmer have designed this timber cabin as part of a camping site in Hudiksvall, Sweden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us some images of a house and studio in Oporto, Portugal that architect Álvaro Siza Álvaro Leite Siza designed and built for himself. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: young designer Anne Lorenz presented this storage chest modelled on an enormous handbag as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates have completed this concrete family home in Hiroshima, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A woven net of bamboo creates a curved suspended ceiling inside this restaurant in Hangzhou, China by architects FCJZ. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clustered pendant lights are suspended over one of the open food and drink preparation areas of this London restaurant by Chinese designers Neri&Hu. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: since our story about a house concealed by mist (bottom left) was so popular this week, we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archive that feature weather. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lisbon studio Orgânica Arquitectura have completed a two-storey residence behind the solid stone walls of an otherwise ruined house in Sintra, Portugal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris studio 1024 Architecture have completed a cafe made from scaffolding and shipping containers on an island on the Seine in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted metal plates surround cave-like rooms and a winding mezzanine at the new Amsterdam headquarters for drinks brand Red Bull. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This month our readers’ opinions were divided over the open-source WikiGlasses made of 18mm plywood (top right) so here’s a roundup of our most popular stories about spectacles and shades. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow feature: this week marks the completion of the gigantic red ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture at the London 2012 Olympic park. The tower is the last of the permanent structures to be completed for this summer’s games, so here’s a roundup of them all including sports venues by the likes of Zaha Hadid and Populous. (more…) View the full article

This week five years ago Dezeen was at the opening of the Royal College of Art’s 2007 summer show, where graduate designers were exhibiting jewellery made from sugar crystals and pencils, a chandelier-making machine and digitally recreated snowflakes. (more…) View the full article

Architect Zaha Hadid has been commissioned to design a limited edition speedboat for American art dealer Kenny Schachter (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago Zaha Hadid’s installation at the Venice Biennale (above) featured sculptural, shiny forms, which cropped up in a lot of designers’ work around the same time. (more…) View the full article

In the second movie Dezeen filmed with designer Erwan Bouroullec at Clerkenwell Design Week, he flicks through the new book documenting 15 years of work by him and his brother Ronan and talks about his favourite project ever. (more…) View the full article

Architects Estudio BaBO clad these three wooden houses in Patagonia, Argentina, with black-painted cypress so that they would look “as monolithic as possible” (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article