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Dezeen Wire: a feature-length documentary outlining the dangers of poor urban planning and including contributions from leading architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster has been released by film director Gary Hustwit. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: plans for branches of the Guggenheim, Louvre and other museums in Abu Dhabi by leading architects have been dealt a blow by delays to a key construction contract, according to a report in today’s Financial Times. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to convert a Basel warehouse with their design for an extension that will zigzag across the roof like a bolt of lightening. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded on our recent architectural tour of Basel and Zurich, leading Swiss architects talk about their work and offer opinions on the current state of Swiss architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Cape Town in South Africa has been named World Design Capital 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

If pharmacy packaging leaves you feeling perplexed about what you’re taking, then these medicine packets named after symptoms rather than ingredients will be right up your street. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Electricity pylons, road-signs and rusty advertising plaques steal the spotlight from the Giza pyramids in these images by photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a live stream of a debate with all seven partners of architects OMA, taking place at the Barbican Art Gallery in London tonight. Watch the live stream on Dezeen Screen » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A circle of trees will frame an hourglass-shaped hut for Milan that won’t be complete for 100 years. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: London’s Barbican Art Gallery will broadcast a live stream of a debate featuring all seven partners of architecture practice OMA in public conversation for the first time ever at 7pm this evening. The discussion will be chaired by Tate Modern director Chris Dercon. Click here to watch it via the Barbican’s Facebook page. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jars of tea and second-hand books are separated in stacked wooden cubes at a Taipei teahouse. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with NAi Publishers to to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of the Dutch Design Yearbook 2011. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the Dutch architecture studio’s preoccupation with the hinterland created around expanding mega-cities. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in the UK is to appoint a new director for Design Council CABE following the announcement that Diane Haigh has left the post. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

If you’ve always wanted to be photographed wearing a chocolate moustache, come along to the party Dezeen is co-hosting with Red, the association of Spanish design companies, in Berlin on Friday. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s an extremely pointy apartment block by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Codesign have converted a Stockholm warehouse into a school. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age. See links to more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here. </img> </img> </img> </img&g…

Dezeen Wire: Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi has emailed us her analysis of the gender and race of designers whose portraits we’ve published on our homepage in the last seven months which, she says, shows a predominance of white males. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: artist Ai Weiwei, architect Bjarke Ingels and designer Joris Laarman are among the winners of WSJ. Magazine‘s first Innovator of the Year Awards, a prize honouring the world’s most creative and progressive individuals. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Akko Goldenbeld has made a model of the city that plays the piano. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: safety concerns have led local officials in Shanghai to propose the introduction of a regulation banning the use of glass curtain walls on new schools, hospitals and residential buildings - China Daily A number of recent incidents involving falling glass in the city, which has the highest number of glass-clad buildings in China, have led to concerns that poor installation and maintenance are increasing the chances of injury to the public. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ Future Trends Survey for September points to a drop in the number of architectural practices anticipating increased demand for their services. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China that’s covered in firewood. (more…) </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 us at Dezeen, David Chipperfield and Marcel Wanders, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Fredrikson Stallard, Herman Miller and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article