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Milan 2012: Konstfack University College student Nick Ross will present this bar with a hood for sharing secrets in crowded places at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

A spiralling concrete staircase winds up through this empty tower by Marra + Yeh Architects of Sydney and Malaysia. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architect Aurélie Blanchard has lined every wall and surface in the bar of this Basel restaurant with copper, while a dark green dining room looms just behind. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week Dezeen arrived in Milan for the 2007 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we saw a lamp comprising a cluster of writhing human bodies and a vase made by bees. Both Phillippe Starck and Ron Arad were presenting new chairs for furniture brand Driade, while Toyo Ito showed a spherical light made from layers of delicate fibre mesh. Elsewhere Established and Sons launched their cartoon graphics-style cabinets alongside Jasper Morrison’s storage units that look like crates. Back in the UK, we revealed the news that Jean Nouvel was to design the new Philharmonie de Paris, although a series of financial problems have stalled its construction, and UNS…

A steel screen zigzags in front of a shampoo area at this dimly lit beauty salon in Gifu, Japan, by architect Hiroyuki Miyake. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: we’ve noticed a trend in golden buildings recently, including The Hive by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Maidstone Museum East Wing by Hugh Broughton Architects just this week, so we thought we’d round up all our stories that feature a lavish use of golden materials. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Milan 2012: Austrian designer Robert Stadler will present a bookshelf that separates the books you’ve finished from those you haven’t read yet at Galleria Nilufar in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen have arrived in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and we have just delivered our Dezeen Book of Ideas to three shops across the city. You can pick one up at: MUST Shop via Olona 6 20123 Milano www.mustshop.it Pigr via Clusone, 6 I-20135 Milano www.pigr.it Spazio Rossana Orlandi Via Matteo Bandello 14 20123 Milano www.rossanaorlandi.com The Dezeen Book of Ideas features a selection of the best ideas for buildings, interiors and products from the pages of Dezeen. The book is also available to order online. www.dezeenbookofideas.com View the full article

Our latest Pinterest board collates all the rugs and blankets from the Dezeen archives, including textiles by Studio Makkink & Bey, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Richard Hutten, Damien Hirst and more. Follow us on Pinterest » View the full article

One year ago this week we were still presenting some of our favourite projects from Milan’s annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which included chairs from a mist-filled showroom, a desk that cascades off the wall and a midnight meal in a darkened apartment. We also featured the zigzag-shaped chair launched there by Zaha Hadid, which no one could work out how to sit on. Meanwhile, architecture stories continued to be popular with our readers, who couldn’t get enough of a split-level apartment filled with nooks and crannies, a staircase encased by faceted wood, and a Swedish cottage with a stark pine interior. Over in the Netherlands, UNStudio revealed images of a to…

This inkjet printer has been adapted by Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Christophe Guberan to print patterns that contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms. (more…) View the full article

The Dezeen team jets off for Milan tomorrow to start setting up Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST, where we’ll be playing all the great music that’s been sent to us so far. We wanted a track to get us in the party mood, and we definitely wouldn’t complain if this track by Will Matiu came on in a club. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Danish architects BIG have unveiled proposals for a 150-metre-high skyscraper in downtown Vancouver. (more…) View the full article

This week a group of urban climbers revealed that they’d secretly scaled the 309-metre-high exterior of Renzo Piano’s London skyscraper the Shard and J. Mayer H. completed a crooked concrete police station that one reader thought was actually worth getting arrested for. Here at Dezeen we’ve been preparing for our relocation to Milan next week, where we’ll be filming a daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, filled with news from new design epicentre MOST, interviews with designers and journalists, plus coverage of events elsewhere in the city. We’ve already published a few of our favourite projects that will appear at the fair, which include a table that’s al…

As part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro‘s series of talks on Italian design, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will chair a discussion with Italian designers Formafantasma at the RIBA in London on 26 April. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec present this slender ash chair for Magis in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: designer David Weeks has teamed up with Belgian design brand Quinze & Milan to present a giant version of his Cubebot toys for New York producers Areaware at MOST in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

A suspended ceiling folds erratically around the uppermost apartment of a Lisbon block that Portuguese architect Jorge Mealha has refurbished. (more…) View the full article

The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is now available to download, featuring interviews filmed by Dezeen with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection. Download it free from the app store here. In this film we’ve compiled extracts focussing on how design has shaped the way we listen to music over the last century, including iconic devices like the Ecko AD-65 radio from the early 1930s, SK5 Phonosuper from Braun in the 1950s and Sony’s experiments from Walkman to Discman to MiniDisc towards the end of the twentieth century. (more…) View the full article

These masks by German designer Meike Harde cover just the eyes and mouth, replacing the wearer’s features with idealised ones from the media. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Hackney designer Lee Broom will launch crystal light bulbs cut like whiskey decanters at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

The surrounding mountains were the inspiration behind the textured concrete forms of a civic centre and police station in Mestia, Georgia, by German firm J. Mayer H. Architects. (more…) View the full article

We’ve got a another track with a twist for you on Dezeen Music Project today. Teardream by Kid Suda starts off with a simple but catchy looped piano chord sequence, before a screaming electric guitar riff kicks in half way through. If you like what you hear, you can keep up to date with all of Kid Suda’s latest tracks and other goings-on here. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a table that’s almost invisible at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Mail has gone weekly and this issue includes our plans for Milan next week, stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions and updates from Dezeen Wire and Dezeen Screen. Check it out here. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article