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German industrial designer Luigi Colani, renowned for his curvaceous product and transport designs, has died in his home country at the age of 91. Read more

Jon Emmony has installed a five-storey augmented reality experience, called Digital Falls, in the atrium of Selfridges department store in London. Read more

Deep openings for windows and doors have been "carved out" of the pale brick base of this home in the conservation area of Hampstead, designed by London studio Stanton Williams. Read more View the full article

Interior designer Jessica Helgerson has overhauled a home in Portland, Oregon to include decorative ceilings, floral wallpaper and shades of green and grey that evoke its rainy, cool climate. Read more View the full article

We've rounded up some of our favourite Christmas trees of the year, including not one but two inspired by the Bauhaus and a Lego dragon in Christmas tree form. Read more View the full article

It's easy to shock with technology and innovation, says Michael Anastassiades, but the real challenge for designers is creating objects that stay relevant over time. Read more View the full article

Norwegian urban furniture brand Vestre has won the best stand award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair for an installation featuring re-usable materials and information about the carbon footprint of every product. Read more View the full article

Holiday homes and hotels that also function as shoppable furniture showrooms are growing in popularity. Here are five examples including a Copenhagen hotel, a Melbourne apartment and a Hamptons house. Read more View the full article

Architect Martin Massé has designed Orsetto 02, a rounded stone coffee table for the New York gallery Studio Twenty Seven. Read more View the full article

Mexican Dream is an exhibition of work by students and professors of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, which is being presented at VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Noun Amsterdam's colourful wall rugs called The Lips are designed by Sandra Keja Planken to add "depth, vibrancy and boldness" to interior spaces. Read more View the full article

US architecture firm Studio Dwell has stacked a rectangular volume clad with black zinc on top of a pale brick structure to form this residence on a corner lot in Chicago. Read more View the full article

Guadalajara design studio Peca has made rounded tables and footstools with pale wooden cylinders, wool and recycled glass. Read more View the full article

Architect Johan Berglund of London studio 42 Architects has designed a restaurant that could be embedded in the side of a hill in Östersund, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British industrial designer James Dyson has added two new models to his range of blade-less fans, the AM02 Tower and the AM03 Pedestal. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Charles Hosea has sent us his pictures of this visitor centre in Essex, England, with oversailing wooden roof trusses by UK firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the RIBA in London have opposed a bid by the Prince’s Foundation to take over the design review role currently fulfilled by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), which is to close in the wake of last week’s government spending review. See press release below. See also: CABE closed down in spending review (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To conclude our review of 2010, here are the five most-viewed stories from Dezeen in December, starting off with Charrat Transformation by Geneva studio clavienrossier, two concrete volumes on top of a stone house and barn in the Swiss Alps. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images of the new collection launched by British furniture brand SCP at Maison&Objet in Paris last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Bozen based designer Simone Simonelli has designed this folding chair from timber rods. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs of the Lookout Point by Swiss architects HHF, which was the first of eight structures to be completed for the religious Mexican pilgrimage la Ruta del Peregrino, open to pilgrims for the first time this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Akinari Tanaka, POI, Nawakenjimu and Lapin have completed this diamond-shaped house in Kokura, Japan, with a ledge in one corner for climbing up to the roof terrace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faeces, electric eels and fruit would power conceptual communities designed by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Catrina Stewart. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Swedish designers studio vit present a special configuration of their storage system called 11 Boxes at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British architect Terry Farrell has unveiled conceptual proposals to convert London’s Battersea Power Station into a park, which oppose existing plans for a mixed-used development by New York architect Rafael Viñoly. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article