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Dezeen Screen: in this movie that we filmed at Qubique 2011, Philipp Mainzer, founder of German furniture brand E15, talks about the furniture and accessories the company showed during the Berlin design fair. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This faceted museum in the Alps by South Tyrolean architect Werner Tscholl is precariously cantilevered. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm ONdesign have completed a wooden house in Fujisawa where two sliced halves are connected by a shared living area. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

X marks the sport where you hang your hat and coat with these hooks that also function as coat hangers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week a pair of commemorative structures by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois were our most clicked story, so our first top ten of the year features the most popular memorials from our archive. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects Tectoniques have completed a townhouse in Lyon that is entirely black at the front but has three oversized windows at the rear. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At the start of 2011 two of our most popular stories were about sex toys. New online brand Made to Pleasure invited customers to customise the shape of their toys, while designer Marc Dibeh designed one that discreetly tucks into the side of a bedside lamp. A few designers started to look forward to the imminent wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton by designing unofficial commemorative plates, and a group of students constructed an igloo-shaped pavilion from cardboard hoops. Meanwhile, a wooden house filled with bridges and platforms sparked a debate about safety and we revealed images of a Maggie’s Centre designed by London architects MJP. We featured a fle…

Architects CZWG have completed a bronzed, hexagonal library that leans across a dock in south London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Peter Zumthor’s memorial to suspected witches put to death in Norway captured readers attention, while David Chipperfield was confirmed as architecture curator for this year’s Venice Biennale and rapper Kanye West announced plans to launch a design company. We featured shoes disguised as toucans, swans and ducks, as well as a set of two-faced tableware and an unusual house with a pebble-filled garden and roof terrace behind its walls. Readers debated whether an underground extension to an Austrian museum bore too much of a resemblance to the Louvre in Paris and the new London headquarters for Google engineers were compared to spacecrafts, the Big Brother hou…

Japanese architect Hiroyuki Tanaka added diagonal walls and blue lights to this Tokyo apartment. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Qubique 2011, student Milena Kling shows us an exhibition of projects from the University of Arts Berlin, which were completed in collaboration with material brand Alcantara. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio LDA.iMdA Architects converted this former warehouse in northern Italy into a design showroom and then concealed it behind gauzy black curtains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A ridged cloak of glazing will surround the extension to an art centre in Utah proposed by Californian architects Brooks + Scarpa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chairs that double up as ladders, clotheshorses, shelves or lamps are part of a collection of furniture by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The stairwell ascending through the centre of this Tokyo house is illuminated from a skylight and glows through translucent glass partitions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Dutch designers Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong talk about their prototype for a bicycle that plays records on its wheels as you ride, in this movie that we filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Art and design studio CTRLZAK have launched a collection of tableware where half of each piece resembles traditional Chinese porcelain and the other side features a European design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A painted-timber skin that skirts around the top storey of this Hamburg house reveals the heights of staggered floors inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, London designers JAILmake Studio talk about their Brick Replacement Service, which turned seeds and soil into bricks during a day at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This high chair by Vienna designers Patrycja Domanska and Felix Gieselmann gives coffeehouse patrons a view over the heads of others. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent roundup of stories featuring ice and snow, here’s a timber lodge outside Prague that was photographed days after a blizzard. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Shinya Miura has completed a house in Shizuoka with three courtyards concealed inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This desk lamp resembling bent blades of grass is by American designer Victor Vetterlein. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Viennese designer Thomas Feichtner talks about One Crystal Chandelier and Drawing Lamp, the two lighting designs he exhibited as part of our our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. The first is a chandelier with a single crystal, while the second is a task lamp that can be balanced in two different positions. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen in Isreal: these high-heeled shoes disguised as birds are by designer Kobi Levi, whose footwear resembling inflatable sex dolls caused a stir with our readers back in November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article