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Tokyo 2010: designer Emmanuelle Moureaux presented eda, a prototype lightweight, modular product that combines to create cloud-like forms, at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A house once occupied by Mexican communist party founder M. N. Roy has been converted into a nightclub by French architects Emmanuel Picault and Ludwig Godefroy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Indistrial designer Konstantin Grcic presents these tables painted to look like Formula 1 cars at Gallerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The floor of the dining room becomes a worktop for the kitchen inside this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Urban Architecture Office (UAo). (more…) View the full article

UK designer Luke Twigger has created a range of skull-shaped containers with cushions for brains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Hiroshima by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office is surrounded by an offset concrete shell to create a series of triangular terraces between the inner and outer walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The cohesive core of Casablanca, Morocco, is unmatched by few city centres and shows how modernism can be used to its full potential on a large scale, says recent visitor Aaron Betsky. Read more View the full article

This concrete house on stilts is a family home in Austria by Vienna studio Wolfgang Tschapeller Architekt. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

FREE Fernando Romero EnterprisE have completed this anvil-shaped windowless museum in Mexico City, with a facade composed of hexagonal aluminium tiles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: as the value of copper increases, product design graduate Oscar Medley-Whitfield has minted a range of copper-bullion bowls so investors can display their assets at home. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Zerofee have created the identity for Dezeen Watch Store, our new e-commerce venture launching next month during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Den Norske Opera & Ballett by Snøhetta and Open-Air-Library by KARO* with Architektur+Netzwerk have been jointly awarded the 2010 European Prize for Urban Public Space. Related: See our story about the Open-Air-Library by KARO* See our story about Den Norske Opera & Ballett by Snøhetta More details in the press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects MYCC have designed the interior for a combined coffee and book shop in Madrid, exposing the original warehouse structure and inserting a glass floor between storeys. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Finnish Lahti University of Applied Sciences students Arttu Kuisma and Janne Melajoki have rolled up 250 square-metres of recycled carpet to create this multicoloured chair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have teamed up with Brands, UK distributors for Emeco, to offer our readers the chance to win one of three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs made of recycled plastic bottles to celebrate the chair’s UK launch during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hungarian studio A+ Z Designers have created a range of items inspired by Gypsy culture, and made from traditional materials and methods. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Itay Laniado has created a range of stainless steel garden tools with oak handles wrapped in red thread. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Amsterdam designer Laurens van Wieringen presents this piled-up child’s chair at Ventura Lambrate this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Since our readers love them so much, here’s a round-up of all the stories we’ve published on Dezeen about Japanese houses. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has added stacked layers of white marble to create a podium in this Romanesque church in France. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Zaha Hadid opened the new cave-like London showroom she’s designed for bathroom brand Roca and Ai Weiwei was dubbed art’s most powerful figure. This is the last week of Dezeen Space so your last chance to visit is this weekend! If you can’t be there in person, you can still check out our story on Dominic Wilcox’s Moments in Time sculptures here, watch an interview with him here, visit the online Dezeen Watch Store and pick up your copy of the new Dezeen Book of Ideas for just £12 here. You can also see all the exhibitors from our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform here and watch interviews with them on Dezeen Screen. Meanwhile, MVRDV have opened an exhib…

More about Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec in Milan – this time a wooden bird for design brand Vitra. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish bicycle company Biomega launch two new bikes today, one by London designer Ross Lovegrove and the other by Danish design collective KiBiSi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese design studio Nendo have completed a store for fashion designer Issey Miyake where accessories are displayed atop clusters of steel rods. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezen Screen: Moody Nest is part of Hanna Emelie Ernsting‘s series of furniture for stroppy people. Watch the movie » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article