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Portuguese photographer José Campos has sent us these photos of Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall, which is currently under construction in Hamburg and due for completion in 2013. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Tomás Alonso presented a range of shelves and lighting that combine ash timber with leather saddlery during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: here are some pictures of an exhibition curated by Beijing Design Week‘s creative director Aric Chen, where the childhood possessions of a Chinese actress were arranged beside illustrations of piecharts and explosions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the second instalment of our video interview with Rem Koolhaas, the OMA co-founder discusses two of his current preoccupations: the countryside, which he is addressing for the first time; and generic architecture, which could result in neutral, copyright-free building forms. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Canadian studio AT.AW will be exhibiting their range of Orphans Plush toys at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (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 and architects Herzog & De Meuron, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, The Museum of Everything and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A walkway by Tetsuo Kondo Architects winds its way around tree trunks and up into the canopy at a park in Tallinn, Estonia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A yellow wall of storage divides this Portuguese apartment by architects Pedro Varela & Renata Pinho (photographs by José Campos). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Dutch designers Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong unveal a prototype of their Feats per Minute project, a bicycle that allows you to play records on its wheels as you cruise through the city, at our our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio TULP Design have designed new loos for Munich based advertising agency Webguerillas that encourage doodlers, narcissists and greedy toilet-roll users. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Computer software generates endless possible architectural configurations from standardised components at an exhibition in Taipei designed by architects MVRDV. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: London designers PostlerFerguson have created a temporary Viennese coffee house for Vienna Design Week, which continues until Sunday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Brendan Magennis will be running a micro workshop demonstrating his range of Whackpack Furniture at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Ai Weiwei covered the floor of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with porcelain sunflower seeds and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister talked to us about his work at Vienna Design Week. David Kohn Architects installed an event space called Skyroom on the roof of the Architecture Foundation’s London offices and an underground railway station with criss-crossing concrete beams reminded our readers of a sci-fi computer game. Meanwhile, British car manufacturer Aston Martin announced that they would launch a luxury compact city car and Copenhagen-based KiBiSi designed a furniture range resembling sand bags. Structural engineer Cecil Balmond lef…

Guerilla lighting designers Luzinterruptus snuck out in the dead of night to stick 400 illuminated silicone nipples all over statues outside the Public Art Museum in Madrid. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week OMA were in the news with the opening of a new exhibition of their work at the Barbican in London and the completion of their Maggie’s cancer caring centre in Glasgow. We were given an private guided tour of the exhibition by Rem Koolhaas and interviews with other OMA partners will appear soon on Dezeen Screen. Apple co-founder Steve jobs died this week at the age of 56. Meanwhile, Zaha Hadid received the RIBA Stirling Prize for an academy in south London, provoking a mixed reaction from architecture critics and Elle Decoration editor, Michelle Ogundehin sparked a lively debate on the morality of furniture copies in an article posted on her blog. …

Dezeen Space: the inventors of Sugru are bringing their pop-up hack-station to Dezeen Space on Sunday 9 October to do a demo and giveaway of their plastic modelling clay. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of the show. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: design graduate Clinton Sheldon brings a series of products made of components salvaged from the factory of British furniture company Ercol to our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Not Tom have created an installation where coloured dye rises by capillary action out of paint tins and along tree branches wrapped in wool. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: a rotating arm deposits spirals of quartz sand on the showroom floor at crystal company Lobmeyr in Vienna this week, thanks to Canadian designer Philippe Malouin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for an new international airport in Kuwait. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Australian company Makedo to give away ten sets of their reusable connector system for creatively recycling waste materials. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Iconograph watch by Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger is now available in four new colours at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: WRAP magazine launch their latest issue and two new product ranges at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article