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Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty’s new collection of sculptural furniture and lighting includes upholstered pieces resembling lichen-covered stone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: U.S. opinion columnist Harold Meyerson has written an article for the Washington Post in which he challenges assertions made in Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that it is America’s ability to produce innovators such as Jobs that will keep them ahead of emerging industrial powers such as China and India. Meyerson opines that Silicon Valley’s creativity and technical expertise are not enough to revitalise the American economy, arguing that it is more important that Apple consider relocating production back to the U.S. He concludes his piece by stating that: “Absent manufacturing, innovation, even at its Jobsian heights, …

This animation by Emmy Castelain flips through our new Dezeen Book of Ideas, which features 116 projects by the world’s best creative minds. We’ll show the animation at our party in Barcelona this evening - click here for more details and your invitation. Watch the movie » If you can’t attend in person, you can order the book online for just £12 at www.dezeenbookofideas.com. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critics are having their say on plans unveiled yesterday by Foster + Partners and engineers Halcrow for a new transportation hub in the Thames estuary (see our story on Dezeen). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the winning designs in 12 of the completed project categories at the World Architecture Festival awards have been announced. The winners were selected from over 700 entries from 66 countries around the world and will now go forward to compete for the overall prize of World Building of the Year 2011, to be announced tomorrow together with the prizes for Structural Project of the Year 2011 and Future Project of the Year 2011. (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 hut grown from cherry trees over 100 years, a glass bedroom in the forest, a library concealed under firewood and a “haunted” Japanese house. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs and an invitation to our party in Barcelona tonight. 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

OMA have completed a new building for the school of architecture at Cornell University in New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the 250 Series, the latest design by best-selling British watch brand Uniform Wares, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction is about to commence in Algiers on the third largest mosque in the world, which will only be smaller than the pilgrimage sites of Mecca and Medina. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some new images of the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi by Zaha Hadid Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in an interview with Farah Nayeri for Bloomberg Businessweek, architect Rem Koolhaas describes the European Union as “an incomplete machine” and claims that it will “disintegrate” unless political leaders complete the task of integration begun when the EU was founded. Koolhaas also talks about working in China, the global workforce currently inhabiting the countryside and his former employee, Zaha Hadid, who he says was “a very independent and massively talented person from the beginning.” Dezeen spoke to Rem Koolhaas and other partners from his practice OMA at the opening of OMA/Progress, an exhibition at the Barbican art gallery in London. You can see t…

Inside 2011: we’ve been posting the winners of the inaugural Inside awards as they’re announced today and you can now check out all nine winning projects in our special Inside category. We’ll be showing interviews with the winners on Dezeen Screen over the coming days, but in the meantime you can watch interviews with the judges here. 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 the event here and find out what we’re up to in Barcelona this week here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </…

Inside 2011: finally, Table No.1 by NHDRO wins the bars and restaurants category at the Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: The Rock, the newest terminal at Wellington International Airport by Warren & Mahoney and Studio Pacific has just been announced as the winner of the transport category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: Bar Code Office by Singapore studio Ministry of Design has just been announced as the winner of the offices category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a mirrored tree house designed by architects Tham & Videgård Arkitekter for the Treehotel in northern Sweden is now available for sale as a flat-pack kit. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: in our next round of Inside awards in Barcelona, Strelein Warehouse by Ian Moore Architects has just been announced as the winner of the residential category. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: the hotels category award at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona goes to NHDRO for The Waterhouse at South Bund. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Foster + Partners and engineers Halcrow have unveiled proposals for an airport and transport hub on the Thames estuary, 55 kilometres from central London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: Dezeen have teamed up with Swiss brand Punkt. to offer readers the chance to win a limited edition version of their clock by London designer Jasper Morrison, created to raise funds for recovery from the natural disasters in Japan earlier this year. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a pop-up shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, made from renovated shipping containers is being threatened with legal action by a British developer for copyright infringement - Stuff.co.nz The owners of Boxpark, a development in London that will be open over the Christmas period and claims to be “the world’s 1st pop-up mall,” have accused Christchurch’s City Mall of copying their container pop-up format but City Mall have responded by saying that the ideas do not look alike and that their project, which reopened on Saturday, was completed first. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View …

Inside 2011: the Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London by OPERA Amsterdam have just been announced as the winner of the display category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: we’re in Barcelona this week with our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up at Inside world festival of interiors and a party to celebrate our Dezeen Book of Ideas at Otrascosas de Villar-Rosàs tomorrow night – click here to download the invitation. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A spiky kindergarten and a bulbous sports centre with rooftop funnels are included in this conceptual community by architecture students at Lund University, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article