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Cibicworkshop of Milan have designed bottles for wine made with grapes from each of Italy’s wine regions, marking the 150th anniversary of the country’s unification. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK design magazine Design Week is to close this week, Dezeen understands. It is thought that the title will continue as a web-only publication at www.designweek.co.uk. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Laurence King to give Dezeen readers the chance to win one of five copies of Folding Techniques for Designers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These lamps by Paris designer Arik Levy consist of dark grey ceramic vessels with brightly glazed interiors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foster + Partners have completed the world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Small windows offer glimpses of the straw used to construct this university building in Nottingham, England, by architects Make. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week MVRDV caused a commotion by designing two towers engulfed in a pixellated cloud that put readers in mind of the World Trade Centre’s destruction on September 11. Meanwhile UNStudio unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. Artist Olafur Eliasson designed fort-like banking headquarters to rise out of the sea and Thomas Heatherwick completed a Hong Kong shopping centre with waves of stone parting either side of the entrance. On Dezeen Wire Herman Hertzberger was named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture – we’ve rounded up his key projects here - and a sci-fi animation about robots took home o…

A staircase at the centre of this Amsterdam apartment has risers that are almost but not quite at right angles to the treads. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Shoreditch-based interactive designers Jason Bruges Studio are presenting a lighting mobile that moves around to map its surroundings at Light+ Building in Frankfurt this week. (more…) View the full article

French architects Dumazer & Lafallisse have converted a former gallery in Paris into an optician’s. (more…) View the full article

Herringbone parquet covers the walls and floor of this photography studio in east London by local design practice Post-Office. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: this week we’ve been recording short interviews with designers and critics at the top shows of the London Design Festival, and we’ve now compiled them in a handy audio guide to the festival. (more…) View the full article

News: architect Maurice Shapero has released plans for a cross-shaped skyscraper on the waterfront in Liverpool, England. (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail leads with MVRDV’s proposals for a 400-metre skyscraper that looks like a pile of buildings and also includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 128 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

We're up to June in our 2012 review and leading our five most popular stories is a camera controlled by blinking and squinting by Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou. (more...) View the full article

This vase by Rhode Island School of Design graduate Jiwon Choi is made from a thin curl of synthetic paper. (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch studio DUS Architects has joined the race to build the first 3D-printed house with plans to print a full-size canal house in Amsterdam. (more...) View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto has created a collection of cabinets carved with geometric patterns for Italian brand Casamania. (more...) View the full article

Australian architect Raffaello Rosselli has repurposed a corroding tin shed in Sydney to create a small office and studio apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: photographer Paul Rafferty and filmmaker Dan Lowe have produced a timelapse documentary showing the construction of Rogers Stirk Harbour's recently completed Leadenhall Building in London, also known as the Cheesegrater. (more…) View the full article

British studio United Visual Artists created an "electrical storm" inside Sou Fujimoto's cloud-like Serpentine Gallery Pavilion using LED lights during a performance at the temporary structure last month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Cacti, gravel, concrete floors and a wooden bridge feature in this Brussels fashion boutique by JDS Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Asda is to become the first UK supermarket to offer an in-store 3D scanning and 3D printing service. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: following Dan Hill's column questioning whether driverless cars would really make our roads safer, Sam Jacob argues that "it's time to design transport in a way that incorporates intelligence as well as brute engineering". (more...) View the full article

This new metro station in Leipzig, Germany, by Swiss architect Max Dudler comprises a 140 metre-long tunnel made up of illuminated glass blocks. (more...) View the full article