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Our current featured architects Suppose Design Office of Japan have designed a residence in Hiroshima with two rooms that appear to be outdoors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Interiors studio Esoteriko has selected light colours and natural materials for every room in this house in Sydney, apart from one bright blue bedroom. Read more View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of an airport tower in Alguaire, Spain, designed by b720 Arquitectos. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buildings adapted to marine environments and paper structures designed for funeral ceremonies are among the sustainability-focused architecture proposals in this VDF school show by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Read more View the full article

An exhibition of new work by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec has opened at Galerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This building for Tokyo by Japanese architects Geneto will be cloaked in steel mesh with ivy growing over it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Norwegian firm Snøhetta have been selected to design an extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – more details in press release below (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates have completed this house in Hiroshima, Japan, with one wall glazed in sliding panels that open onto a grassy courtyard. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Made to Pleasusre, a new online venture allowing customers to customize their own sex toys opens today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of the Miami Beach SoundScape park by Dutch landscape architects West 8, located next to Frank Gehry‘s New World Centre (see our earlier story) in Miami Beach, Florida. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s the first of three previously unpublished movies made by Dezeen in December 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This faceted spiral staircase was created by Czech architects EDIT! to join two neighbouring apartments in Prague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Spiegel online reports that Walter Gropius’ pioneering 1911 Fagus Factory at Alfeld in Lower Saxony, Germany, will be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. UNESCO is still deliberating whether to add works by Le Corbusier to the list. Via Spiegel online </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polish artist Monika Grzymala will fill a London gallery with lengths of black and white sticky tape at an exhibition that opens in October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rough concrete columns and beams frame the living room ceiling of an apartment in San Sebastian. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Studiolav have declared the pencil redundant and redesigned it for life in a pencil-pot graveyard. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled designs for an enormous undulating arts centre in Chengdu, China and Michael Graves & Associates completed a building for the Dutch national automobile museum inspired by a traditional carriage house. A Japanese home with stairs covering the façade divided opinion, with some of our readers saying it looked like stadium bleachers, while one reader described a monolithic office and residential complex by Erick van Egeraat as an “ugly big charmless building!”. Meanwhile, British designer Robin Day passed away aged 95, architects Carmody Groarke designed an interior for a fashion exhibition with backlit partitions that resem…

The Temporium: regular readers might be surprised to see antiques on Dezeen but these wooden stools from our neighbours Chest of Drawers are today’s Advent calendar feature from our Christmas shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: design graduate Ariane Prin uses an extruding machine to press pencils from waste materials she finds at the Royal College of Art workshops in her project From Here to Here, presented and filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In case you hadn’t noticed, this week we’ve been in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we’ve been filming a daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST. Highlights include interviews with Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon and Faye Toogood, plus we’ve been talking to journalists about this year’s hot topics, giving away prizes and touring exhibitions at MOST and elsewhere in the city. Catch up with all the episodes here. Other exciting projects from MOST that we’ve featured include an installation where mysterious helpers dressed in white guide visitors through a healing performance and the launch of new design brand La Chance, who have created one c…

World Architecture Festival 2012: in the next movie from our series running up to this year’s World Architecture Festival, programme director Paul Finch tells us how the jury were ”bowled over” by the hand-constructed Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre by Peter Rich Architects, winner of the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2009. (more…) View the full article

Here are some photographs of the 442-metre Kingkey 100 skyscraper designed by architects Farrells, currently the tallest building in Shenzhen and tenth tallest in the world. (more…) View the full article

Taut rope is all that holds together this furniture by Dutch design graduate Toon Welling. (more…) View the full article

Architect Peter Zumthor presents a series of his models in an old post office beside the Austrian gallery Kunsthaus Bregenz that he designed in the 1990s. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the exhibitor line-up has been announced for the 23rd Biennial of design (BIO23), taking place from 27 September to 11 November 2012 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (more…) View the full article