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Milan 2011: German designer Stefan Diez will present this chair made using vehicle manufacturing technology for design brand Wilkhahn in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The facade of this single family house near Basel by Swiss architects andOFFICE steps back to frame a wooden terrace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler made batteries from 700 used coffee capsules to power clocks installed in the window of Nespresso Austria during Vienna Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges is next up in our series of movies from Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents filmed at imm cologne earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Interview: Clive Wilkinson, the architect behind the office design at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, tells us how he convinced the internet giant to move away from "humiliating, disenfranchising and isolating" workers' cubicles (+ transcript). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: sixteen designers including Scholten & Baijings, Stefan Diez and Tomas Alonso have created tableware with craftsmen from Arita, Japan, for a new brand supporting the town's 400-year-old porcelain industry (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Czech studio H3T architects have hung a sauna beneath a bridge over the river Elbe. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Hayato Komatsu has completed the interiors for this clinic in Hiroshima, Japan, which is located within a shopping centre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sinuous spruce-wood walls wind around this cosy cave-like suite that Tenon Architecture has created for a resort hotel in southern Greece. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and viction:ary have teamed up to offer our readers a chance of winning one of five copies of their new book Eat Me – Appetite for Design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: these lamps with a mechanism derived from marking tools were among a collection of furniture presented by German designer Bao-Nghi Droste at imm cologne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This winery by Hungarian architects Plant sits at the foot of a volcanic hill in Hungary and is clad in concrete panels indented with the pattern of grapevines. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Sam Baron of Fabrica will present a modular collection of furniture full of holes at ICFF in New York later this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed Skigard Hytte, a modern mountain cabin raised on pillars and made entirely from wood. Read more View the full article

A Picasso painting inspired this cliff-top house near Sydney by architects Durbach Block Jaggers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Zealand designer Chris Waind has created this set of decorative paper butterflies. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Den Norske Opera & Ballett by Snøhetta and Open-Air-Library by KARO* with Architektur+Netzwerk have been jointly awarded the 2010 European Prize for Urban Public Space. Related: See our story about the Open-Air-Library by KARO* See our story about Den Norske Opera & Ballett by Snøhetta More details in the press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio EFFEKT has released plans for a 600-metre-long treetop walkway connected to a spiralling observation tower with 360-degree views over the forest canopy of southern Denmark. Read more View the full article

In more fashion news, designer Elham Seyed Javad of Canadian company ResportOn designed a hood for Muslim women who want to keep their hair covered while playing sport. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s another chance to see Sweeper Clock, a movie presented by Dutch designer Maarten Baas in Milan in April 2009, featuring two men with brooms pushing lines of debris to form moving clock hands. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris architect Florian Brillet has created a coffee table with a branching structure. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lisbon firm Topiaris Landscape Architecture has extended a 700-metre long timber walkway through wild riverside scrubland to connect a new Portuguese public park with a bird observatory (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Industrial designer Giorgio Bonaguro of Milan has created this lamp that supports a light fitting in a single loop of steel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Mario Trimarchi of Fragile has created this range of glass vases suspended in wire frames for Italian design brand Alessi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house with checkered windows by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates sits on a street corner in downtown Tokyo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article