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Designer Ignacio Canales Aracil created these sculptures by pressing and drying wild flowers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A chequered facade of timber and glass surrounds one of two new neighbourhood libraries by Adjaye Associates to open in Washington DC. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: 14 young designers come together to create an ideal living space for an exhibition called The Front Room: Geometry and Colour inside a listed Milanese house this week. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Zaha Hadid teamed up with hairdressing brand Fudge to create a pop-up hair salon in London last week. (more…) View the full article

Designers are being invited to design the perfect financial crime of the future, for an annual award that encourages the development of links between the financial and creative industries. Read more

Design gallery The Future Perfect is exhibiting weird and wonderful ceramic homeware and accessories across its locations in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Read more View the full article

Design gallery The Future Perfect has created its third Casa Perfect showroom to pay homage to its 1970s aesthetic of the Beverly Hills house it inhabits. Read more View the full article

People are dunked in a pool of wax to create sculptural dresses by Dutch fashion designer Bart Hess as part of a futuristic city on show at this year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which kicked off yesterday in the Portuguese capital. (more...) View the full article

A frameless sheet of glass undulates around this barrel-vaulted conservatory in west London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hackney designer Lee Broom has filled a room in a London mansion with studded furniture to host visting business leaders during the Olympic games. (more…) View the full article

News: architects in the UK are being "cut to the bone" by bureaucracy says architect Steve Tompkins, whose firm won the RIBA Stirling Prize last night for the Liverpool Everyman Theatre (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie by Paul Nicholls of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen, the world is conceptualised as a series of virtual interfaces, where people visit places and meet each other in simulated environments created by the houses that they never leave. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio Factory Fifteen was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 2011 in the architectural film/animation category. Called The Simulation, it’s the first movie in a two-part series called The Golden Age. Nicholls made the series while studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture alongside his colleague Kibwe Tavares, author of the Robots of Brixton movie we published earlier this week. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Olivia Lee has created a sketch pad with grids based on the mathematical principle of the golden ratio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Christian Vivanco has designed a sofa that resembles a picket fence surrounding a lawn. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The surrounding countryside is projected onto the ceiling of this reed-covered tower that Hudson Architects and artist Ben Coode-Adams have installed in a field in Norfolk, England. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio AOC gave this community centre in south London a textured, herringbone-patterned facade to reference a mock-Tudor pub across the street (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A neat row of wooden louvers conceals a small sleeping chamber inside the attic staffroom of a hair salon in Hamamatsu, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish studio BIG has unveiled plans for two twisted apartment blocks in Coconut Grove, Miami (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This illuminated, webbed steel structure at the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo in China is the second project to be featured on Dezeen this week by London architects Plasma Studio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris 2012: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón presents these figurines for porcelain brand Lladró at Maison & Objet in Paris this weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Los Angeles duo the Haas Brothers have imagined this set of homeware as little "otherwordly" monsters roaming the arid California desert. Read more

Dutch designer Maarten Baas' giant Real Time Schiphol timepiece replaces traditional clock hands with a 12-hour-long video performance (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The sounds of the countryside are amplified when you place your ear towards one of these four enormous trumpets built by architects Studio Weave (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Giles Miller's London design studio has positioned a target of reflective pixels in front of a medieval gate for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week, which kicks off in London today (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article