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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

The penultimate project in Polish designer Karina Wiciak's series of fantasy restaurants depicts tables locked up in prison cells. (more...) View the full article

News: Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Boston office over,under have teamed up to design Central America's largest museum of Mayan history and culture for a site in Guatemala City. (more...) View the full article

These photographs show the newly converted aquatics centre by Zaha Hadid Architects for the London 2012 Olympics, which will open to the public next week without the controversial wings that housed additional seating during the Games. (more...) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (pictured) and Shigeru Ban's Pritzker Prize win, along with the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 195 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

The hinges of these glasses by Japanese studio Nendo use magnets rather than screws to allow users to detach, mix and match arms in a range of different colours. (more...) View the full article

News: construction is now underway on a 60-storey skyscraper with a segmented pinnacle, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind for Makati, the Philippines. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is reimagining the dashboard figurine as a personalised avatar to help drivers communicate with cars for the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition this September. (more...) View the full article

Norwegian designer Stian Korntved Ruud has committed to carving one spoon per day for a year to explore the forms that are possible using different types of wood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

XML architects has completed a bright white interior for a shop that sells only vitamin drinks and water in Amsterdam's Red Light District (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Modern furniture and fittings are paired with stone walls and exposed roof trusses inside this old Spanish farm that Dom Arquitectura has transformed into a residence and guest house (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article