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A mobile theatre will visit Clerkenwell Design Week in London this May, inspired by a miniature concert hall above a coal-shed that used to be in the area in the seventeenth century. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year architects and designers around the world were rallying to come up with creative ways to raise money for Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that had just struck Sendai. Designs included a video appeal, a variety of posters and images for sale and instructions for making origami cranes. Elsewhere, industrial designer Yves Behar unveiled a mobile phone with staggered square buttons, while architects BIG won a competition to design some prefabricated wooden housing in Finland and a sculptural low-energy light bulb was named design of the year by the Design Museum in London. We featured some offices inside pulped paper caves, as we…

Designed in Hackney: the Pigeon Light by Ed Carpenter is next up in our Designed in Hackney showcase of design talent from the London borough that Dezeen calls home. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we launched our Designed in Hackney initiative to highlight design talent in the east London borough of Hackney, one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games and home to Dezeen’s offices. More details here. Our most popular story was an extension to a warehouse in Sheffield that looks like another building’s been added on top, which happens to be by Hackney architects Project Orange. An Amsterdam branch of Starbucks inside a former bank was our most-pinned story on Pinterest. Tom Dixon unveiled his plans for new show MOST in Milan next month, including Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, just as Montreal designer Craig Alun Smith revealed his…

Here’s the full transcript from the first Peroni Collaborazioni Talk in which Italian designer Fabio Novembre talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his work, his influences, what it means to be Italian and how to lead by example. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: German architects Schneider+Schumacher have completed an underground gallery that creates a bulge beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie by Paul Nicholls of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen, the world is conceptualised as a series of virtual interfaces, where people visit places and meet each other in simulated environments created by the houses that they never leave. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The design world flocks to Milan next month and designer Craig Alun Smith plans to splatter the city with bird poo in every colour of the rainbow by planting dyed bird feeders around the Piazza del Duomo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete walls twist up through the interior of this tea house and library that Shanghai architects Archi-Union have constructed in the backyard of their studio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this next movie in our series by architectural film studio Factory Fifteen depicts an imagined post-nuclear landscape where a team of researchers are attempting to use fungal technology to soak up the radiation that has infected cities around the world. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: an exhibition of photographs depicting abandoned vehicles and derelict buildings by Hackney-based photographer Katja Mayer and graphic artist Peter Chadwick is opening this evening at The Print House Gallery, London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: today’s instalment in our Designed in Hackney series is Bateman’s Row, a Stirling Prize-nominated home and studio that architects Theis and Khan designed for themselves in Shoreditch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slidehow: architects Foster + Partners have been granted permission to build two 320-metre-high towers beside the Seine, just outside Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with stationery brand Moleskine to give away four architectural monographs from their new series of books called Inspiration and Process in Architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This coffee table by Chilean studio Elemento Diseño is made of a single sheet of plywood, with the legs cut out from its corners. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: our second project this week by Stuttgart architects Werner Sobek Design is a huge cantilevered altar that was temporarily constructed in Freiberg, Germany, for the pope’s visit last year (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The squashy back of this sofa by Milan designer Denis Guidone can be pulled into a cosy nest or laid out to cover the upholstered platform like a duvet. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Rotterdam studio 2by4-architects designed this gabled summer house so the walls of one corner fold open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie by Jonathan Gales of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen imagines the whole of London as a construction site, caught in a state of change that could mean dramatic decay or intensive development. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: it’s day two of our Designed in Hackney showcase and the award-winning Plumen 001 designer light bulb by Samuel Wilkinson for Hulger is our featured project from the borough today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: the glazed walls of this pavilion-like house in southern Germany are sandwiched between a roof and plinth that mirror one another (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: GO is the latest watch by Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa for fashion brand Issey Miyake and it’s now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: none of the elongated rooms inside this curvy apartment block in Osaka are more than two metres wide. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad’s street furniture made from upturned bakers’ crates forms part of an exhibition opening this evening at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article