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. This week’s highlights include starchitects excavating a London park, a movie involving Dita Von Teese and a stiletto and a chocolate penis… read on for full details of the week on Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: when MoMA curator Paola Antonelli visited Dezeen Studio she spoke to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about shows in Milan that addressed the making process, rather than the finished products normally shown at the fair. In this movie she discusses the new focus on experimentation and performance in design as technology becomes more accessible and a new wave of creativity takes hold. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Donna Wilson‘s Frank, Ernest and Henry Pouffes conclude our week focussed on designs that were developed in studios above SCP‘s Shoreditch shop. (more…) View the full article

South Korean designer Jeong Yong has created a round CD-player that’s mounted like a globe on a tilted axis. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have completed a store for shoe brand Camper in Lyon with staircases that seem to go on forever. (more…) View the full article

Interactive designers rAndom International have created a lighting installation that can map and replicate human movement. (more…) View the full article

The first New York Frieze Art Fair took place last weekend inside a 450 metre-long snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn architects SO-IL. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: continuing this week’s focus on Shoreditch design company SCP, here’s the Josiah pendant lamp by Terence Woodgate, first created in 2008. (more…) View the full article

Movie: burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese morphs into a stiletto shoe every fifteen minutes in a holographic performance that was created by London company Musion for the Design Museum‘s exhibition on iconic shoe designer Christian Louboutin. (more…) View the full article

The 100th issue of Dezeen Mail features an interview with David Chipperfield and Sou Fujimoto’s house with hardly any walls and the first story we’ve ever had to censor, plus all the latest jobs, competitions and music. Check it out here. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

Milan 2012: London designers Doshi Levien presented this dressing table for BD Barcelona Design at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Hong Kong watch brand VOID have released a new stainless steel bracelet version of the VOID V01 and VOID V02 timepiece designed by David Ericsson, now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

This vase by Charlie Guda for Rotterdam company The Cottage Industry combines a test-tube with a magnifying lens to show off tiny single blooms. (more…) View the full article

Rather than design a run-of-the-mill skyscraper for a new hotel in Xian, China, architects 3Gatti decided to put lots of smaller buildings on a gigantic set of shelves. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: infrastructure projects by German architects J. Mayer H. have been popping up all over Georgia in the last year – buildings completed so far include an airport, a police station, a civic centre, a border checkpoint and two roadside service stations. Here’s a slideshow to bring them all together. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: next up in our series of stories on Shoreditch design brand SCP is Tom Tom & Tam Tam by Konstantin Grcic, the first of his designs to be put into production back in 1992. (more…) View the full article

Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey have extended a red brick warehouse in central London to provide a new home for The Photographers’ Gallery. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: in part 2 of our interview with Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin she talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the Equal Rights for Design campaign she’s spearheading to demand changes in UK copyright law that will put design on a level with literature and art. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Wienerberger to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Brick’12, the accompanying book for the Wienerbeger Brick Awards 2012 that took place last week. (more…) View the full article

German architects J. Mayer H. have completed the first two of 20 roadside service stations for a new highway running from Azerbaijan to Turkey, through Georgia. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: Copenhagen designers GamFratesi presented this trolley with enormous wheels for Italian brand Casamania in Milan last month. (more…) View the full article

The floor of the dining room becomes a worktop for the kitchen inside this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Urban Architecture Office (UAo). (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: this week’s focus on classics from design company SCP in the heart of Shoreditch continues with the Balzac armchair by Matthew Hilton. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin tipped collaborations with Japanese designers and manufacturers as the most exciting development in Milan this year when she paid a visit to Dezeen Studio. In this first instalment of our interview with her, she discusses the calming effect this has had on the design industry and how quality design has become more accessible to high street brands. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen’s pop-up retail concept The Temporium guest-curates a collection of homeware for flash-sales site llustre this week, including The Masquerade Bud Vases by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon (above). Go to The Temporium on llustre.com » View the full article