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Designers including Marco Dessi, Tomáš Král and Adrien Rovero created experimental mirrors for an exhibition organised by Adam Štěch of Czech design firm OKOLO and curator Klára Šumová during Designblok 2012 in Prague this month. (more…) View the full article

Industrial design duo Liang-Jung Chen and Shuei-Yuan Yang create household objects by reimagining commonplace metal hardware items. Read more View the full article

Employees at web consultancy Netlife Research in Oslo can take a moment for contemplation inside one of three wooden rooms dedicated to silence. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Movie: Caesarstone CEO Yos Shiran reveals how the company develops and manufactures new countertop products in this exclusive video Dezeen produced for the quartz surface brand. (more…) View the full article

We've selected our pick of the top architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at Norweigan firm Snøhetta and Swedish furniture retailer IKEA. Read more View the full article

To coincide with this year's London Design Festival, we've selected the top architecture and design vacancies based in London on Dezeen Jobs, including roles at Tom Dixon and White Arkitekter. Read more

Our selection of the top architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at Danish homeware brand Hay and British interior design studio BradyWilliams. Read more View the full article

To kick off the new year, we've selected the top architecture and design positions on Dezeen Jobs, including opportunities at architecture firm Takero Shimazaki Architects and set designer Es Devlin's eponymous studio. Read more View the full article

Pale pink plasterwork, timber panels and simple wooden furniture were chosen by design studio The MP Shift to make this New York eatery look like an art atelier. Read more View the full article

London studio FAT will create an exhibition dedicated to architectural copying inside a 5-metre-high model of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 next week. (more…) View the full article

London fashion designers Sibling crocheted colourful flowers and giant accessories for their Autumn Winter 2013 womenswear collection. (more...) View the full article

Climbing plants and vines shoot up over a gridded facade of metal beams and panels at this house in Binh Duong Province by Vietnamese architects a21studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: The New Classic is a collection of sanitaryware and accessories designed by Marcel Wanders for Swiss manufacturer Laufen, which hopes to bring a "poetic experience" into bathroom interiors. Read more View the full article

This proposal by Amsterdam architects RAU and design agency Powerhouse Company is one of three projects vying to win a competition to design a dance and music centre for The Hague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled this design for a performing arts centre in The Hague, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Also currently on show at the Hayward Gallery in London is this bed curling round on itself by Cuban artists Los Carpinteros, part of an exhibition of work exploring interior design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Motor brand MINI has launched the latest incarnation of the iconic car at the firm's production plant in Oxford, UK (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Patrick Blanc, the inventor of living walls, has completed his latest vertical garden, covering the side of a five-storey Parisian block with waves of 7600 plants (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. Read more View the full article

These two charred-timber cabins house a temporary artist's studio that will travel across the UK, offering passers-by a glimpse into the working processes of the occupants (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A 100-kilometre array of floating barriers designed by a 20-year-old inventor aims to clear the oceans of waste plastic, and is one of the projects shortlisted for this year's Designs of the Year award (+ slideshow). (more…)

Sustainability experts have questioned the validity of The Ocean Cleanup, an initiative designed to scoop plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean. Read more

Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup has launched the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea. Read more View the full article

The floating Ocean Cleanup device has been upgraded and returned to sea in a second attempt to catch the mass of plastic waste circulating in the Pacific Ocean. Read more

The Ocean Cleanup has revealed plans to turn the plastic it has collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into "beautiful, sustainable products". Read more View the full article