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Dezeen Wire: art and design critics have questioned whether the posters unveiled on Friday to celebrate next year’s London Olympics truly represent the best of British creativity. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at new Berlin design fair Qubique 2011 last month, Ulrich Weingärtner, architect for organisers Offshow, discusses the design and spatial planning of the former city airport where the show was held. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A plant-filled stack of timber beams forms the reception desk of an environmental association’s headquarters in San Francisco. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian architects Edwards Moore have completed this glowing art studio in a car park. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: check out the future of hotel design in the Sleepotel conceptual hotel installation at The Sleep Event in London later this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in his latest article for The Guardian, architecture and design critic Rowan Moore interviews Terence Conran ahead of an exhibition dedicated to his career at the Design Museum, which opens on 16 November. In the article Moore suggest that Conran’s greatest successes have been the businesses he’s founded rather than the products or interiors he’s designed, which Moore adds are “a little too managed, manipulated, packaged and don’t quite communicate the fun he has got out of life, as if constrained by some invisible boundary.” </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 fashion brand Paul Smith, architects MAD and designers fuseproject, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, Vitsoe and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris architects Nadau Lavergne have completed a round wooden theatre and matching circular restaurant for a campsite in the south of France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Kiseung Lee of Helsinki wants people to fill stockings with more vital gifts this Christmas: donations to the blood bank. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office has completed another Tokyo store for skincare brand Aesop, this time in an old shoe shop. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An assortment of windows are randomly scattered across the timber facade of this budget hotel outside Le Mans, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A stripy wall of light glows behind diners at this Milan restaurant by Italian architect Roberto Murgia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year work began on the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Glasgow by OMA, which opened last month. Industrial designer Bill Moggridge received the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize and a pitched-roof extension to a mill-keeper’s cottage in Norfolk won the RIBA Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house in the UK. Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe completed the high-tech refurbishment of a concert hall in Eindhoven and our readers loved a school extension in Spain with a chalkboard wall. Meanwhile, Belgian designers Quinze & Milan created a deconstructed chair with layers of fabric wedged into a wooden frame, Studio Swine built a mobile stall …

Here are twelve posters that have been created by leading British artists to celebrate next year’s London Olympic and Paralympic Games. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Media-ICT office building by Cloud 9 Architects has won the World Building of the Year 2011 at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. You can see more information on the winning design here and our previous stories on the World Architecture Festival here, including announcements of all of the category winners. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK broadcaster Channel 4 reports that a backlash is forming against the prevalence of unpaid internships in Britain, which are particularly popular with graduates in the creative industries. A number of websites have been set up by graduates and campaigners offering advice to those partaking in internships and rallying support for campaigns that call on the government to introduce tighter regulations - Channel 4 News </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we reported from the Inside awards in Barcelona, where a hotel in a former Japanese Army headquarters by NHDRO walked away with the top prize. A glass bedroom on the shoreline in Finland was the most popular story with Dezeen readers this week, along with a sculptural pavilion for viewing wild reindeer by Norwegian architects Snøhetta, described in one comment as “the stuff of fairy tales.” Foster + Partners unveiled an ambitious plan for a transportation hub in the Thames estuary, OMA added a new building to Cornell University’s historic campus in New York and BFLS designed a new college building in Cardiff with a wing-like metal roof. We compil…

Electronics brand Jawbone have launched a wristband by San Francisco designer Yves Behar that monitors your every move then tells you what to do. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more shots of the recently opened Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, England, this time by photographer Michael Whelan. Watch a movie about the project on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: winners of the remaining four completed building categories and nine future designs, celebrating projects that are still in development, have been announced at the World Architecture Festival, which is currently taking place in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design a speaker cover for Copenhagen audio brand Libratone for the chance to win a Libratone Live Airplay sound system worth £599. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects Cor & Asociados have completed a pearlescent music hall in a village near Alicante. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: Chinese architects NHDRO have picked up the award for overall winner at the inaugural Inside awards for a hotel inside the abandoned former headquarters of the Japanese army in Shanghai. You can check out all nine category winners here or read more about this project in our earlier story on Dezeen. Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full a…