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Dezeen Screen: here’s the first of three previously unpublished movies made by Dezeen in December 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture.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

News: WXY Architecture are the third and final studio with plans for the future of New York’s Grand Central Terminal and have suggested a 380-metre skyscraper and a network of elevated cycling paths (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 closes this weekend and this movie by Cristobal Palma shows how visitors to the Chilean Pavilion had to walk over a bed of salt while viewing proposals for Chile’s public spaces on glowing boxes suspended from the ceiling. (more…) View the full article

And finally... 2012 has been a vintage year for Dezeen, with a major award, high-profile collaborations with Apple and Google and record-breaking traffic to our website. (more...) View the full article

An entrance concealed behind a ceramic mural leads down into a sunken living room and courtyard at this house in São Paulo by Brazilian architects Terra e Tuma. (more...) View the full article

Italian car company Pininfarina unveiled a two-seater concept vehicle without a windshield at the Geneva Motor Show last week (+ slideshow + movie). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: London designer Ron Arad has created a range of 3D-printed spectacles and sunglasses for eyewear brand pq. (more...) View the full article

News: work has begun on the OMA-designed headquarters of Denmark's national centre for architecture in Copenhagen. (more...) View the full article

Following our story on a wooden skyscraper proposed for Stockholm this week, here's a series of timber architecture from Dezeen's archive. See all wooden buildings » See all our archive stories » View the full article

This wooden chair by British designer Jasper Morrison was created for use in a Tanzanian orphanage and will be sold to fund the centre's development. (more…) View the full article

Right now Dezeen readers can win tickets to Richard Rogers' exhibition, a compendium of work by Zaha Hadid and Möbius strip-shaped shoes, plus this is the last chance to win books by Tom Dixon and MVRDV. (more...) View the full article