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A room where teenagers can hang out designed by Mathieu Lehanneur has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of the Singapore Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Kay Ngee Tan Architects, taken by photographer Montse Zamorano. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Doors, windows and recesses are picked out in yellow ochre on the timber facade of this retirement home near Paris by French studio Vous Êtes Ici Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: designer Faye Toogood presents Assemblage 1, her first collection of furniture and lighting made of stone, brass and English sycamore, in this interview that Dezeen filmed during the London Design Festival 2010. Check out our plans for this year’s festival here. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Hiroshima by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office is surrounded by an offset concrete shell to create a series of triangular terraces between the inner and outer walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong designer Michael Young has created a range of bio-plastic in-ear headphones made of cornstarch. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German designer Kilian Schindler talks about starting out as a designer and learning to work with manufacturers in this last movie interview in our series filmed at Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents in Cologne earlier this year (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This desk by Japanese studio Torafu Architects looks like a doll’s house, with little windows in the walls and a pendent lamp inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firms Brooks + Scarpa and Studio Dwell have created a suburban Chicago home with an inner courtyard screened from the road by "vertical twisting columns" of brick. Read more

This pavilion with illuminated eaves was designed by Dutch firm MoederscheimMoonen Architects for two football teams in Rotterdam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The v-shaped roof of this Illinois tea house by architect Jeffery Poss funnels rainwater to a spout over the adjacent pond. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Edmund Sumner has shared with us his photos of this house by Matharoo Associates in Ahmadabad, India, featuring shutters weighted with concrete balls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have teamed up with Brands, UK distributors for Emeco, to offer our readers the chance to win one of three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs made of recycled plastic bottles to celebrate the chair’s UK launch during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Natalie Zipfl has used pig blood and gelatine to develop a striking and sustainable material called Blood leather. Read more View the full article

London designer Oscar Diaz will present a two-in-one candle holder at Maison&Objet in Paris this weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Grassy gardens top the Maggie's Centre for cancer patients built by Heatherwick Studio in the grounds of St James's University Hospital in Leeds. Read more View the full article

This clothing store in Tel Aviv by Z-A Studio of New York features items displayed on a pegboard that runs to the ceiling of the double-height space. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul designers KAMKAM have designed a collection of felt-covered furniture that can be fastened using buttons, belts and zips. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We need to provoke discussion, not anger, when it comes to talking about diversity, says Michelle Ogundehin, who shares her personal experiences with racism, views on positive discrimination and ways in which individuals can make a difference. Read more View the full article

Architect Ivo Pavlik created this gateway overlooking a nuclear power station in the Czech Republic by casting concrete between hay bales then setting them on fire. Called The Cross-Gate, the structure in Dukovany stands at the end of a path leading from a cemetery, in front of a tree.The ends of one wall and the lintel are gilt [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A translucent training centre in northern Italy has earned architects Iotti + Pavarani the Renzo Piano Foundation prize for the best Italian practice under 40. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo 2010: here’s another origami-inspired product by Naoki Kawamoto (see the spectacle case in our earlier story), this time a handbag. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New British design brand All Lovely Stuff are selling their wares a few doors down from our pop-up shop The Temporium in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Studio Glithero present an installation of 1000 tiles decorated with photosensitive prints at VIVID Gallery in Rotterdam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: Italian brand Cassina present a collection of wooden furniture originally designed by architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s at imm cologne in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article