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Dutch firm MVRDV and Danish firm ADEPT have won a competition to design a building housing health, leisure, culture and education facilities for Frederiksberg in Denmark. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These lamp shades wrapped in adhesive tape are by Italian designer Sylvia Pichler for design brand Skitsch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These wooden spectacle frames have been created by Milan designer Matteo Ragni. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Patrick Miara has sent us his photographs of this art centre in Les Herbiers by French architects Forma 6. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York designer Karim Rashid has renovated the University of Naples subway station in Naples, Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Lisson Gallery in London are preparing an exhibition of work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who is still missing after being detained by authorities at Beijing airport on 3 April. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store now stocks LunaTik, which converts the Apple iPod Nano into a multi-touch watch. Meanwhile, Dezeen Screen now has a new movie of designer Scott Wilson telling the story of how he raised a million dollars to develop the product. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Both weddings and council assemblies take place beneath the double gabled-roof of this hall at the medieval centre of a German village (photography by Roland Halbe). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen Thomas Heatherwick designed an interior for an abbey with curving walnut and ash choir stalls and Dutch architects MVRDV unveiled proposals for a hotel covered in flowers inside a giant greenhouse. The Campana brothers wrapped a furniture showroom with faceted aluminium plant holders and a glass-clad spa encircling a tree was popular with Dezeen readers. Many of the designs for the London 2012 Olympic posters by leading UK artists failed to impress, while graphic designer Sarah Hyndman’s conceptual alternatives replaced the Olympic rings with everyday objects. Stocking-shaped blood packs that encourage people to give blood for Christmas were descri…

Translucent boxes propped up on a forest of steel rods display products by skincare brand Aesop at a Hong Kong fashion store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week last year two architectures students unveiled plans for a company that enables illegal migration and our most popular and controversial story was about a giant, latticed canopy by J. Mayer H. that was described as clumsy, grotesque and overbearingly monumental, as well as sublime and gutsy. Our readers also had a lot to say about an anvil-shaped museum with a windowless tiled facade, which many thought bore an uncanny resemblance to Selfridges in Birmingham. Over in Tokyo, architect Emmanuelle Moureaux completed another project with her trademark rainbow of colours, this time a bank, while back in the Dezeen office we were busy deciding which colour gradients …

Crates of old vinyl records inspired this magazine holder by London designer Hugo Passos. (more…) View the full article

Spanish rug maker Nanimarquina celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this month by laying dozens of rugs across Plaça de la Virreina in Barcelona (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Trinidadian architect Tara Keens Douglas presented a series of carnival costumes made from folded paper and twisted rope as part of her masters thesis. (more…) View the full article

A sharply pointed gable rises above the walls of this stone funeral chapel in a small German town by Bayer & Strobel Architekten (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Viennese design studio Labvert has produced a glass fragrance tester for fashion house Dior to replace the slips of card normally used when sampling perfumes. (more…) View the full article

SOM’s proposal for a ring-shaped observation deck hovering over New York’s Grand Central Terminal (above) leads this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which also contains all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 124 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

As the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 draws to a close, we take a look back at the five exhibitions and pavilions that were most popular with Dezeen readers, as well as the biggest news stories to come out of the event. (more…) View the full article

November's most popular story was a set of images by Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan showing scenes of New York recovering from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, while design education came under threat in the UK and 3D printing was taken up by the military. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will moderate a talk about the future of designers and commerce at the Form Us With Love market tomorrow evening as part of Stockholm Design Week. (more...) View the full article

News: automated tools threaten to make designers redundant as machine algorithms replace human creativity, the Mayor of London's former cultural strategy manager has claimed. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Zaha Hadid imagined a block of ice formed in the crevasses of a glacier for the design of this bench, launching this week in the Tortona district of Milan. (more...) View the full article

News: British inventor James Dyson has donated £4 million towards building a new cancer centre in Bath, UK, based on the principles underlying his successful redesign of a neonatal ward at the same hospital. (more...) View the full article

News: Danish architect Henning Larsen has died in Copenhagen at the age of 87. (more...) View the full article

This trapezoidal house in Toronto by LGA Architectural Partners features stark white interiors to frame its owner's art collections and create a projection screen for a light installation (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article