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Save the date! On 1 August, Dezeen presents Designed in Hackney Day: a day of design talks, debates, performances and shops involving the best and most interesting architects, designers and makers in the east London borough of Hackney. (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail includes interviews with Thomas Heatherwick on his solo show at the V&A and Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby on designing the London 2012 Olympic torch. There’s also an update from Dezeen Jobs, new competitions and all the best stories and comments from Dezeen as always. Read Dezeen Mail issue 103 » Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

Slideshow: a layer of translucent plastic cloaks the bright yellow and green exterior of this Shanghai youth centre by Chinese firm Atelier Deshaus. (more…) View the full article

Dublin creative agency Boys and Girls has installed a new reception desk supported by giant Jenga blocks at one end and balloons at the other. (more…) View the full article

Movie: earlier today, Jacques Herzog of architects Herzog & de Meuron gave us an exclusive, impromptu tour of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which opens tomorrow in London. (more…) View the full article

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Here are some photographs of the completed 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, which opens to the public in London tomorrow. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: British design duo BarberOsgerby talk about designing the London 2012 Olympic Torch in this movie we filmed last week at the Vitra showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Thomas Heatherwick to give away five copies of Making, the new book covering his studio’s output to date. (more…) View the full article

The press preview of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei is today. See some photos of this morning’s preparations on our Facebook page. See the designs for the pavilion in our earlier story » See all our stories about the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilions » See all our stories about Herzog & de Meuron » See all our stories about Ai Weiwei » View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: a tiny mobile theatre with chimneys made from coal scuttles played host to audiences of up to six during Clerkenwell Design Week in London last week. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Dutch studio Rocha Tombal have completed a primary school in The Hague that winds around its site like a crocodile. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Thibault Penven has designed a folding boat. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: accessories like lamps and dividers attach to this desk system by Tomás Alonso through a gap in the surface of the table. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Designjunction has announced the exhibitor line-up for its next show in a former postal sorting office in central London during the London Design Festival this September. (more…) View the full article

This Tokyo house by Japanese architects Aida Atelier comprises a cluster of four white-rendered blocks that support an elevated fifth block above a central patio. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new in this week at Dezeen Watch Store is the elegant Vigorelli by Milan designer Matteo Ragni for Italian watch brand Lorenz: (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: a curved concrete facade wraps around the front of this house by A2+ Arquitectos in Leiria, Portugal, with a large hole revealing the rectilinear house behind (photos by Fernando Guerra). (more…) View the full article

A solo show of work by British designer Thomas Heatherwick opens at the V&A in London this week, featuring prototypes, experiments, material samples and finished works from key projects including UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 and his recent redesign of the double decker London bus. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers GraphicDesign& to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new book Page 1 – Great Expectations, which features the just the first page of Charles Dickens’ famous novel, repeated 70 times with 70 different typographic layouts. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: oak-lined boxes create study rooms along the corridors of this school in southern Germany by Stuttgart architects Klumpp + Klumpp (photos by Zooey Braun). (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at today’s preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London, Thomas Heatherwick demonstrates the machine that dispenses guides to the exhibition from huge rolls of paper, inspired by newspaper printing presses. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: these side tables by Haggerston designers Warm feature deep round trays supported on tubular steel legs that make them resemble snare drums. (more…) View the full article

This red concrete house outside Stuttgart by German firm Finckh Architekten has an oversized middle floor that cantilevers across the driveway (photos by Zooey Braun). (more…) View the full article