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Haberdashery introduces its contemporary lighting collection, Poetic Narratives, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam arts centre Mediamatic has set up a socially-distanced dining experience where guests sit in their own greenhouse and hosts wear face shields. Read more View the full article

An exhibition about the work of structural engineer Cecil Balmond of Arup is on show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week eight of the Virtual Design Festival starts this Monday with a collaboration with ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design, taking visitors on a virtual 360-degree tour of the opening of its new exhibition, and much more. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up once again with London company Mr Jones Watches to give away two special edition Cyclops watches and two Always On My Mind watches, worth £130 each. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This year's London Design Festival will go ahead as scheduled in September, but with a more local focus and greater online activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven studio DHV Architecten have completed a laboratory for nanotechnology in Delft, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design collective Outofstock have completed the interiors for a restaurant in Singapore, where the windows are covered by wooden panels with egg-shaped cutouts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British studio Fletcher Crane Architects have won a competition to design a waterside office building on the river Aire in Leeds, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a power plant for Copenhagen with their design that will double up as a ski slope. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Tokyo by Japanese practice Torafu Architects creates built-in furniture through the overlapping of interior spaces. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: American furniture brand Knoll have been awarded the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture student Ben Kirk has designed conceptual towers to replace the fast-declining bee population by shooting artificial pollinators into the air. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A triangulated glass and steel restaurant sits beside a river in a remote forested gorge in southern China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A music recital room resembling a Japanese tea house hangs like a lantern in the garden of a residence northwest of Washington DC. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Rafael Viñoly has completed a visual arts centre in Colchester, England, that is wrapped in polished golden metal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with bi-monthly publication Architectural Design to give away five copies of their latest issue, Experimental Green Strategies. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time five years ago Dezeen was less than a month old and reported from Design Miami, where Kanye West took time out from snapping up pieces by the Campana Brothers to tell us about his new apartment by minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin. Back in London we published pictures of the design, our first story to go viral. More on this in our birthday roundup of our most memorable trips! We also interviewed gallerist Murray Moss and showed new pieces by Barnaby Barford, Maarten Baas and Fredrikson Stallard. Our first attempt at a Friday gossip update noted Justin McGuirk’s appointment as editor of Icon magazine (where he stayed until last year) and Marcel Wanders’ p…

The latest menswear collection by fashion designer Sruli Recht of Iceland features leather made from dolphin skin, fabric woven from horse hair and silk extracted from a spider’s gland implanted in a goat. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the last of our series of movies filmed with Dezeen Platform exhibitors, Royal College of Art graduate Pia Wüstenberg presents her pieces made from processed paper, which include pendant lamps and a folding table with paper vases for legs. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: it’s Friday and Japan is hot on the agenda for today’s edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio, as we chat to architect and Pecha Kucha founder Mark Dytham about the design scene in Tokyo and our guest journalist Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin tips Japanese design and manufacturing as the hot story at Milan this year. Ogundehin also tells us about the campaign the magazine is launching to protect the rights of UK designers, which you can find out more about here. The episode also features new French brand design brand La Chance, who have created one colourful and one sober version of each piece in their inaugural collection, an interview…

Italian-Singaporean designers Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed a collection of aids for the elderly with styling that’s more domestic than medical. (more…) View the full article

Beijing architects CU Office have completed a contemporary granite office building that uses a traditional local measuring system in a rapidly developing agricultural city in eastern China. (more…) View the full article

Walls of rough stone and concrete surround the staggered levels of this public square in Zaragoza by Spanish architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Manuel Fernández Ramírez (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German architects HENN have created a streamlined pavilion with a curled-over steel roof for car brand Porsche at the Autostadt theme park in Wolfsburg. (more…) View the full article