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Dezeen Watch Store: Mutewatch, a new touch-screen watch with silent alarm, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Christmas shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brightly coloured and patterned panels chosen by different groups in the local community adorn a new library and learning centre in Melbourne, Australia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concave walls at the centre of this Hong Kong boutique hide a stockroom and fitting rooms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: this series of knotted collar pieces made of rope by London-based designer Helena Westerlind is today’s entry to our Advent calendar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen screen: in this final interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri about his restaurant design within a hotel where cut-outs in the ceiling mean diners can look up into the bedrooms above. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, Foster + Partners and Priestmangoode, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Benjamin Hubert Studio, Republic of Fritz Hansen and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Newly positioned windows reveal the overhauled interior of a Rotterdam townhouse that was formerly an abandoned apartment block. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has sent us these photographs documenting the vernacular street-lighting of different cities around the world. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: this beaded and embellished jewellery collection from London-based designer Fiona Paxton is the festive treat hidden behind day 18 of our Advent calendar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week OMA won a competition to design the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year. Klein Dytham Architecture completed their Moku Moku Yu baths in Japan’s Southern Alps, Tate Britain appointed Caruso St John Architects to modernise their Millbank gallery and we continued our coverage from Design Miami including pieces by Zaha Hadid, Bodo Sperlein and Studio Job. The one-month-old Dezeen was getting ready to celebrate it’s first Christmas and received a lovely Christmas card designed by Thomas Heatherwick. See all our stories from December 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img>…

Dezeen archive: one of our most popular stories this week was about a prefabricated house in Portugal that costs the same amount of money as a family car (top left) so here’s a roundup of other prefabricated designs that have been published on Dezeen. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: these prints featuring festive collective nouns by Woop Studios are on sale at our pop-up shop The Temporium, open in London until 24 December. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the Groninger Museum re-opened in the Netherlands following a renovation including areas designed by Studio Job, Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayón. Also in the Netherlands, Marcel Wanders created a dinner service for Dutch airline KLM and Hella Jongerius presented 300 porcelain vases at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where forty of them were damaged when a visitor to the museum became ill and fell over. Popular stories on Dezeen included a city with buildings that roll around on train tracks, a bright yellow nursery school outside Stockholm and conceptual packaging design for well-known supermarket products with stripped-back packaging.…

This week Steven Holl was announced as the winner of this year’s AIA Gold Medal, Danish studio BIG designed another building-cum-ski-slope and MAD released photos of their recently completed “otherworldly” museum in the Gobi desert. Over on Dezeen Screen Norman Foster talks about the legacy of Buckminster Fuller and Konstantin Grcic tells us about his Cape sofa in our series of movies from Qubique. Our series of Dezeen Talks at the Inside awards continues with an office arranged like a barcode, an apartment in a former grocery warehouse and a controversial airport terminal. Meanwhile Grafik magazine closed again, retail expert Mary Portas published a report on the fut…

Dezeen Screen: in this interview taken from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Nick Barratt-Boyes of Studio Pacific and Ralph Roberts of Warren & Mahoney about their design for a new terminal at Wellington International Airport, where copper-clad structures connect three exisiting buildings. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The soles and uppers of these shoes separate easily so you can repair them yourself. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: spend 2012 joining the dots around some of London’s famous landmarks with this calendar by designer Dan Usiskin, on sale now at our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium. We’re also giving them away free with the first five purchases today so hurry down! (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Over 200 cubes display products by coffee brand Illy at this temporary shop in Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Sometimes is the second of two new watches by Milan designer Denis Guidone now available from Dezeen Watch Store, both online and at The Temporium.(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this latest interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief talks to Marcus Fairs talks to Colin Seah from Ministry of Design about the design of their own office, a former shophouse in Singapore where the rooms and the furniture within them are arranged in rows like a barcode. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This school in Porto by Portuguese studio AVA Architects has lime green walls inside and out, and is filled with green furniture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a design for towers that remind readers of 9/11, a fortress for bankers and a “face lift” for Burger King. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our Christmas shop The Temporium. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Kaos is the first of two new watches by Milan designer Denis Guidone now available from Dezeen Watch Store, both online and at our Christmas shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: fashion designer Justin Oh is launching his new line of bags and accessories at our Christmas shop The Temporium and is behind today’s Advent calendar window. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The translucent back wall of this pop-up headphone shop changes colour in response to the noise made by Christmas shoppers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article