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Dezeen Wire: in his latest review for The Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore criticises Daniel Libeskind‘s angular five-storey extension to the Military History Museum in Dresden, stating that ”something so large and conspicuous should surely be more than a gesture.” (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at 54 Rivington Street, London, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs gives a tour of our activities at Dezeen Space. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects mihadesign have completed a Tokyo house with sloping skylights, suspended lofts and a staircase that spirals around a wall. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: best known for his grown-up furniture that would be quite at home in a fairy tale, Amsterdam designer Bo Reudler presents a collection of children’s furniture in Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Grey and white blinds create a chequerboard pattern against the facade of this Barcelona school by MMDM Arquitectes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the twelve winners of this year’s Dutch Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Eindoven this evening, including a robot that prints chairs from recycled refrigerators, street lamps with no poles and a bunker that’s been cut in half. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Due to the popularity of Melvin, a machine we showed on Dezeen Screen that triggers a chain of strange events when an alarm sounds, this month’s top ten is all about machines. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Customers can leave their children playing downstairs and dine beside a four metre-high model elephant at this Bucharest restaurant. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year architects Planning Korea designed a futuristic media bridge that resembled a string of bubbles, while the Dutch Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo won the best project at the Dutch Design Awards 2010, despite one of readers commenting that “the Netherlands is represented here like a crazy playground!” Less flamboyant projects that proved popular included a temple in India built by villagers using local stone, a zig-zagging extension joining the two halves of a school in southern Spain and a minimal Japanese house with a double-height glazed void in the centre. Established & Sons filmed designers creating installations in a day at their Mayfair gall…

A Jewish purification ritual takes place in the pools of this Mexico City bathhouse. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we featured a couple of intriguing aviation stories: our readers were amused and bemused by a transportation concept resembling a floating inflatable cloud, while Foster + Partners completed the world’s first commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Meanwhile, a proposal for an office completely covered in digital adverts drew unfavourable comparisons to sci-fi film Bladerunner and two universities got new digs: a former granary was transformed by Stanton Wiliams into a campus for Central Saint Martins in London and Steven Holl Architects released images of an aluminium clad sports centre for Columbia University that is under construction in Ne…

A grid of timber louvres screens the end facades of this Japanese house by architects AE5 Partners. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A solo show of work by artists Studio Job opened at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Mint Gallery in London, Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo talks about Growing Vases, an installation of hand-blown glass lights with the blower’s pipe still attached. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Barcelona cafe looks more like a warehouse, with everything from sofas to fridges housed within tall shelving units. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Guest artists will be invited to live and work inside this shard-like timber hut. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent feature about projects that intentionally look as though the builders haven’t left yet, here’s a restaurant in Mexico City with lumps of plaster and holes on its ceiling. (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 two unusual transport options: float around at random on an inflatable cloud or jet off from the world’s first space tourism port. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. 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

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

Dezeen Screen: British designer Tom Price talks about his Meltdown series of furniture while he melts a big ball of nylon rope into a chair in this movie from the Tales of the Hunt interview series made by Brussels gallerist Victor Hunt. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris studio 1024 Architecture have completed a cafe made from scaffolding and shipping containers on an island on the Seine in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French studio FREAKS freearchitects have inserted a rectangular timber tunnel inside this Paris cosmetics shop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Order the new Dezeen Book of Ideas together with the London Design Guide by Max Fraser and pay just £20 for both books. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slanted walls pierced by square peepholes bisect this house in Osaka by architects ALPHAville. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foster + Partners have completed the world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article