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The China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing by architects OMA are now complete. (more…) View the full article

We’ve added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of kitchens from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 3000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about kitchens. View the full article

Patchy timber shields the glazed upper storeys of this extension to a historic town hall in southern Spain by architects Viar Estudio. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: today’s colourful fashion focus is the neon bright Resort 2012 collection by Christopher Kane. (more…) View the full article

Architects Carmody Groarke and graphic designers A Practice For Everyday Life used Bauhaus-style colours and typography for the design of an exhibition about the celebrated art school at the Barbican gallery in London. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in our second movie celebrating this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, WAF programme director Paul Finch explains why the super-jury headed by architect Robert Stern selected the Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects as World Building of the Year 2008 in the festival’s inaugural year. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Architectural Design (AD) to give away five copies of Narrative Architecture by Nigel Coates, the latest title from the AD Primers series. (more…) 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

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

London studio Pengelly Design has created an airline seat that converts into a 2.2-metre-long bed for Virgin Atlantic. (more…) View the full article

Dutch firm DUS Architects have created a pavilion made of bubbles. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: we’re stepping into the fashion world for Designed in Hackney this week so every day we’ll be showcasing fashion designers who are based in the borough. We start with Gareth Pugh‘s sculptural designs for new ballet Carbon Life, which had its premier at the Royal Opera House last month. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen is media partner for the fifth annual World Architecture Festival, taking place in Singapore from 3-5 October, and our readers can get a 25% discount when they enter their projects for the awards programme (see below). To kick off a series of videos about the awards, programme director Paul Finch explains what WAF is all about and sets the scene for this year’s event. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’re clearing space for our summer collection and Dezeen Watch Store is having a spring sale! Save 20% on many great watches including Jak by Karim Rashid for Alessi and An Alarm by Industrial Facility (below). Read on for more details or visit the sale: (more…) View the full article

Construction of the controversial 115 metre-high sculpture that artist Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond designed for the London 2012 Olympic park is now complete. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: OMA have created a stage set for an ancient outdoor theatre in Sicily that dates back to the fifth century BC. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with tokyobike to launch their new London store this week and to celebrate we’re give away a single-speed bike worth £520 (above). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, Heatherwick Studio and Llustre, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Universal Design Studio, Architonic and more… (more…) View the full article

Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune have completed a house on the coast of a Baltic island, with grey sealant drawing graphic lines across the white concrete facade. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago Daniel Libeskind designed his first piece of commercial furniture, the Campana Brothers presented plastic garden furniture wrapped in wicker and Zaha Hadid recreated some of her buildings as three-dimensional wall art. (more…) View the full article

London designers Dalton Maag have created a font for mobile phone brand Nokia to work in any language. (more…) View the full article

We’ve just added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of offices from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 3000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about offices. View the full article

One year ago this week, stories on Dezeen included a space ship, an office and its contents painted entirely in white, and planks of wood made from recycled newspaper. (more…) View the full article

The new Paris store for fashion designer Stella Cadente is a tunnel lined in gold. (more…) View the full article

Italian designer Simone Simonelli presented three little mobile storage units in Milan last month. (more…) View the full article