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One year ago Dezeen readers looked ahead to the apocalypse, when an armoured cabin might come in handy, while Frank Gehry unveiled controversial designs for a business school with a crumpled-up facade. We featured a chair made from squashed-up fibre cement and a pair of 3D-printed shoes that one reader called “blister-tastic”. Meanwhile, a youth hostel filled with fabric bedroom pods opened in a former factory in Italy and a futuristic, cave-like bar made a few readers feel nauseous. We revealed the news that industrial designer James Dyson was succeeding Terence Conran as Provost of London’s Royal College of Art and our most popular stories of the week were a pair …

Dezeen Wire: architect Steven Holl has been named as the winner of this year’s AIA Gold Medal. See all our stories about his work here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week MVRDV caused a commotion by designing two towers engulfed in a pixellated cloud that put readers in mind of the World Trade Centre’s destruction on September 11. Meanwhile UNStudio unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. Artist Olafur Eliasson designed fort-like banking headquarters to rise out of the sea and Thomas Heatherwick completed a Hong Kong shopping centre with waves of stone parting either side of the entrance. On Dezeen Wire Herman Hertzberger was named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture – we’ve rounded up his key projects here - and a sci-fi animation about robots took home o…

Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed at the AXIS Gallery in Tokyo, Japanese studio Nendo exhibit a selection of their projects through a wall of stacked polycarbonate sheets. Viewed through this transparent facade, Nendo’s designs become pixelated abstractions which vary as visitors move around the exhibit. Watch the movie » </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

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest watch by Swedish designer David Ericsson for VOID, the V01 LED, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and you can also try one on before Christmas at our pop-up The Temporium, where readers get 10% discount on all Dezeen Watch Store products. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium 2011: make your Christmas cards and envelopes from any paper with this rubber stamp by British designer Sebastian Bergne, available at our Christmas shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects Christ Christ have added box-like rooms and an outdoor cinema to the roof of a house in Wiesbaden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen in Israel: this chair by designer Ezri Tarazi is formed when a concrete-filled mannequin is dropped onto it from above. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted metal plates surround cave-like rooms and a winding mezzanine at the new Amsterdam headquarters for drinks brand Red Bull. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in this movie filmed by cultural collective Pacific Standard Time, rapper Ice Cube explains his love of architect and how the work of renowned architects Charles and Ray Eames inspires him. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Dik Scheepers mixed discarded paper with cement to cast this series of furniture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British designer Tom Dixon has partnered with Ambra Medda and Martina Mondadori to announce the launch of MOST, a new hub at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next April. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago have published a report predicting the 20 tallest buildings in the world by the year 2020, including eight over 600 metres high. Read the full online report here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul, Korea, that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: The Portland Public Service Building by Michael Graves & Associates has been added to the USA’s National Register of Historic Places. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is looking for ten upcoming designers and brands to present their products at Home, a new design-led homewares and interiors trade show that takes place in London in January. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: patterned paper planes crafted by a traditional printing press are behind the eighth window of our Advent calendar of products at the The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Greek architects K-studio have completed a rustic pizzeria modelled on an Italian courtyard in the centre of Athens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the next Thailand International Furniture Fair will take place from 14 to 18 March 2012 in Bangkok. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sci-fi animation in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced this evening. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: as part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri & Hu about the Waterhouse at South Bund, a hotel inside a former headquarters of the Japanese army, which won the overall award. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: today’s window in our Advent calendar of products at The Temporium features Papernomad‘s, biodegradable paper sleeves for electronic devices. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Oscar-winning film maker Bruce Beresford will direct a forthcoming movie about iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright - The Hollywood Reporter The film will be centred around the architect’s Wisconsin home Taliesin, after which the film is to be named. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a Danish news site reports that the power plant with integrated ski slope proposed by Bjarke Ingels Group has been denied funding by the City of Copenhagen due to environmental risks – Politiken See renders of the Waste-to-Energy Plant, which would also blow smoke rings, in our earlier story. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article