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With only two days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020, it's time to start finalising your entry. Read more View the full article

Australian studio b.e. Architecture have completed a house in Melbourne clad in basalt slabs of varying size and thickness. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Dot Series is a collection of cylindrical luminaries by Californian manufacturer Meteor Lighting that are available in several styles. Read more View the full article

Czech architects Chalupa Architekti have won a competition to design the new Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC, USA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German brand Tecta have put into production a series of storage boxes on sticks originally designed by the late British architect Alison Smithson in 1988. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Oslo architects PUSHAK have installed an indoor terrain of moss arches and screens for the London Festival of Architecture, which opened last weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong firm Rocco Design Architects are competing with OMA (see our story here) and Foster + Partners (see our story here) to create a master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This bakery shop in Osaka has been refurbished by Japanese firm Ninkipen! with bread displayed on a wooden sleeper and the kitchen sat behind an exposed concrete counter. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our popular story on House 77 by dIONISO LAB with its perforated aluminium shutters, this week (top right) we’ve compiled all the buildings from the Dezeen archive featuring shutters. See all the stories » All our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Wooden latices line booths either side of a long walkway in this mountain-top ski cafe on the island of Hokkaido in Japan by Japanese studio Design Spirits. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: The Telegraph has confirmed that UK magazine Design Week is to close, as reported by Dezeen earlier today. New Media Age magazine will also close, although the websites of both titles will continue. Dezeen understands that Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight and most of her editorial team have been made redundant. Read The Telegraph’s story | Read our earlier story </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: Kingston University graduate Andre Pereira has created a series of products to help with tricky DIY tasks, including these paint brushes that clip onto the edge of a tin of paint. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezen Screen: Moody Nest is part of Hanna Emelie Ernsting‘s series of furniture for stroppy people. Watch the movie » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Order the new Dezeen Book of Ideas together with the London Design Guide by Max Fraser and pay just £20 for both books. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: discarded bottles sourced from hotels, restaurants, homes and foreign embassies are being filled with sand and used as bricks to create curved-walled houses in a Nigerian village – BBC The bottles are bound together with mud resulting in durable walls that are sustainable, cost-effective and provide insulation from the sun’s heat. The resulting buildings are also bullet-proof – a useful benefit in an area plagued by violence. An estate of 25 houses is currently being built with plans for a school to follow. See our previous story on a house made from sand bags in South Africa. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img…

Dutch designer Dik Scheepers mixed discarded paper with cement to cast this series of furniture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: French architects Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Belgian studio MDW Architecture have collaborated on designs for a new police headquarters on a former police cavalry site in Charleroi, Belgium, which now also accommodates a dance school. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in the fourth episode of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio in Milan Zaha Hadid drops by to chat to us about what she’s installed at a secret garden elsewhere in the city and to give an architect’s take on the design fair, plus Yves Béhar demonstrates his redesigned SodaStream system for making fizzy drinks at home. Our roving reporter Rose pays a visit to Spazio Rossana Orlandi, where curator Orlandi explains what’s on show there this year, while back in the studio Guardian critic Justin McGuirk discusses the arrival of hacking culture and open-source production to the design industry. (more…) View the full article

Swedish designers Folkform have used 80-year-old samples of hardboard in these cabinets for Swedish interiors brand Svenskt Tenn. (more…) View the full article

You can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner on top of your sloping roof using this furniture by Lithuanian design graduate Ainė Bunikytė (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: after publishing a photography studio with herringbone parquet walls and flooring this morning, we’ve decided to compile all of our stories that feature herringbone patterns. See all all the stories » See all the archive stories » View the full article

South London designers JAILmake have condensed their 205 square metres studio into just five square metres at design show Tent London, where they’ll be working on a new brief every day (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

German practice J. Mayer H. has replaced the gridded facade of a 1950s office building with organically curved glass and white render. (more…) View the full article

Product news: British designer Jasper Morrison has created a family of outdoor furniture for Spanish design brand Kettal. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a vacancy for a graphic designer at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in London. The architectural practice's recent high-profile projects include the fabric walkway over the roof of the O2 Arena (pictured above) and the NEO Bankside apartment blocks by the River Thames. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article