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Light glitters through thousands of tiny perforations in the bumpy steel exterior of a railway control centre in Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev have completed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken-up hull of a boat. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Ariane Prin brings her pencil factory to Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A glistening aluminium canopy undulates above the heads of waiting passengers at a bus station in Slough, England. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French studio Explorations Architecture have completed a social housing block beside one of the narrowest streets in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize for the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and David Chipperfield was announced as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. Meanwhile, Yves Béhar designed an office chair inspired by suspension bridges, Patrick Hyland produced a concept phone powered by body heat and IKEA released a cookbook featuring photographs of ingredients laid out in patterns. Sou Fujimoto Architects completed a stacked apartment building in Tokyo, a minimal renovation of a 100-year-old parish impressed our readers and Chyutin Architects won a competition to design a controversial museum in Jerusalem. We featu…

London Design Festival: industrial designer Jake Dyson presented an LED task light with a heat-pipe cooling system at designjunction last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Renzo Piano completed a minimal monastery at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, Daniel Libeskind added an angular extension to Dresden’s Museum of Military History and UNStudio designed a cantilevered concrete observation tower. Rafael Viñoly talked to us about his new arts centre in Colchester and the most viewed story of the week was a simple house with a four metre-high door by Archiplan. Also this week, Yves Béhar of fuseproject designed a tricycle with built-in storage and Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility created a hand carved rubber pen with a gold nib. The RIBA Future Trends Survey contained some concerning statistics …

Swirling clouds of drumsticks cover the ceiling of a Los Angeles noodle restaurant by Japanese architects SWeeT. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, London designer Paul Cocksedge explains the ideas behind Change the Record, a project where vinyl records are moulded into amplifiers for smartphones. Watch the movie here and see our earlier story here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Florian Schmid presents his Stitching Concrete Project at our micro-exhibtion Dezeen Platform in Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Australian label Matilda presented products and furniture by 30 designers including a timber and aluminium pendant light by Kate Stokes (above) at designjunction last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The circular roof of a metro station near Copenhagen looms over sunken platforms like a spotty UFO. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York architect Daniel Libeskind has driven a pointed steel and glass shard through the heart of the war museum in Dresden, which reopens on October 14 after a 22-year closure. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: Vienna architect Dejana Kabiljo has installed a giant sofa of bagged flour topped with fake chocolate icing at the 751-D Park for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Grimshaw have completed an installation for London department store John Lewis that’s made of suspended cardboard tubes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie, architect Rafael Viñoly talks to Dezeen about firstsite, a visual arts centre wrapped in golden metal that he has completed in Colchester, England. Watch the movie here and see more images of the project in our earlier Dezeen story. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: designers Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies showed off their folding boat that’s made from a single, standard-sized sheet of plastic at Multiplex at The Dock last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: graduate designer Jólan van der Wiel creates a series of stools shaped by magnets live at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: Vienna Design Week opens tomorrow and local designer Thomas Feichtner will present his chair with a seat suspended at the centre of a cubic oak frame. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Behind the sliding doors of a corrugated steel shed near Paris is an artist’s studio with a double-height atrium and translucent rear wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Czech designer Maxim Velčovský presents a series of containers made from semi-finished iron piping at Mint in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Almost a hundred small square windows scattered across the walls, ceilings and roof of a house in Tokyo allow its occupants, a deaf couple and their children, to sign to each other through the walls even when the children are playing outdoors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article