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This time last year Kengo Kuma was announced as the architect of the V&A’s new museum in Dundee and Foster + Partners Corten-clad Faustino winery rose from the earth in Spain. A skyscraper with a zig-zag channel running through it by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas won a competition for an office building in Shenzhen and a proposal for a dance and music centre in the Netherlands drew praise from our readers for its realistic rainy renders. We launched our online Dezeen Watch Store and rounded up all our stories about bridges, and our top ten crazy cantilevers. We also featured a surreal miniature world featuring a caravan made of bread, a strange range of t-shir…

Dezeen Wire: British manufacturer Dyson has expressed disappointment about the lack of protection offered to British designers following the loss of a design rights case against Chinese-owned Vax, who Dyson claims have copied one of their popular models. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: components for this furniture by Rotterdam designers Minale-Maeda can be downloaded, 3D-printed and assembled locally. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we published analysis by Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi, which questioned whether there was a bias towards white males in our features. You can have your say on the gender and race issue by leaving comments at the end of the post. Meanwhile, a zig-zagging extension by Bjarke Ingels Group won a competition to convert a warehouse in Basel and our most-viewed story featured a library near Beijing that’s covered in firewood. Also popular were a pointy apartment block in Japan by EASTERN Design Office and a garden pavilion made from trees that will take 100 years to complete, which one of our readers described as “a lovely gift to future folk.” Fas…

JDS Architects have won a competition to design a youth centre for Lille, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British curator and writer Beatrice Galilee has been named as the chief curator for the third edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which will take place between October 2013 and January 2014. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie from our series filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka explains how the firm charted the Libyan desert, having been asked how to best exploit it for tourism. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estonian architects KAMP have completed a timber house outside Tallinn that’s cranked around an oak tree. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Qubique 2011: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri uses desert sand to create these tactile moulded lights. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has been announced as the recipient of the Lucky Strike Designer Award 2011, which includes a prize of €50,000. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed an underground museum extension with a park on top in Assen, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka talks about the firm’s work in Arab countries. Watch the movie » Above: photograph is by Blommers Schumm </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has confirmed that he has submitted designs for projects in China and India as difficult economic conditions in the US have led to a decline in development - Bloomberg (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Qubique 2011: look carefully at these tables by Berlin-based collective llot llov and you’ll see that there’s a mirror in the wooden under-frame. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the ceremony for next year’s Pritzker Prize for architecture will take place in Beijing, the first time the ceremony has ever been held in China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Andrea Mancuso and Emilia Serra created a 3D sketch of a living room by suspending strands of wool from fishing wire. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Ora is the fourth watch by Italian designer Denis Guidone to be available from Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these images of a shimmering steel visitors centre at a Mumbai museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: fifteen international design teams are in with a chance of redesigning one of three sites on Washington’s National Mall following the announcement of the shortlist for the National Mall Design Competition. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: 11 design teams including OMA, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw Architects and HOK have been shortlisted in a competition to redesign the public spaces at Chicago’s Navy Pier development. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith have completed the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela has completed his first hotel interiors at the Maison Champs Elysées in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: designers Raw Color and Studio Mkgk present people dressed as trees as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critics have been offering their thoughts on Daniel Libeskind’s divisive Military History Museum in Dresden, which opened earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article