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Movie: Italian design duo Formafantasma discuss their work and influences in this first instalment of a discussion chaired by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs for Peroni Nastro Azzurro’s series of talks on Italian design. (more…) View the full article

Architects Oyler Wu Collaborative wound more than 13,000 metres of rope through steel frames to create this screen wall for Dwell on Design 2012 in Los Angeles (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Czech studio Kibardindesign have created a 3D version of a digital clock face. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: manufacturers MCZ have launched a cylindrical pellet stove called Tube. (more…) View the full article

News: architect David Adjaye has topped a list of Britain’s most influential black people, ahead of Olympic athlete Mo Farah, the shadow business secretary and the Archbishop of York. (more…) View the full article

Graphic designer Neville Brody has reworked the Royal College of Art’s house font by Margaret Calvert as part of the London institution’s rebrand. (more…) View the full article

The 486 Mina El Hosn project conceived by LAN Architecture will offer the city of Beirut a new vision of itself.

Milan 2013: a map of genetic code generated the forms of a table and sculpture on show at Dutch studio Tjep.'s stand at Ventura Lambrate in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Alphaville raised the base of this Osaka house up on crooked stilts, revealing the complex arrangement of rooms, bridges and lightwells contained within (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York designer Stephen Burks filled the Milan showroom of Italian brand Calligaris with colourful ropes and columns of plastic chairs lashed together last month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Chang-Yeob Lee has developed a concept to transform the BT Tower in London into a pollution-harvesting high rise (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Italian architect Antonino Cardillo used roughly textured plaster to create lumpy brown surfaces across the upper walls and ceilings of this apartment in Rome (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The exterior of this water tower in Chile was designed by architect Mathias Klotz to ripple like a pond disturbed by gentle winds (photographs by Roland Halbe). (more...) View the full article

Product news: London architect Zaha Hadid has designed a curvaceous wine bottle for Austrian winemaker Leo Hillinger. (more...) View the full article

The colour of light emitted by this lamp can be controlled using syringes filled with red, green and blue ink (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

We've reached the final edition of our festive A-Zdvent calendar of architects, which wouldn't be complete without Zaha Hadid. The architect's recent built projects include the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Azerbaijan (pictured) and a new exhibition space for the Serpentine Gallery in London, but she is also working on a stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and a Miami skyscraper. See more architecture by Zaha Hadid » View the full article

A wood and steel chair created by Danish Modernist designer Hans J. Wegner in 1955 has been put into production for the first time by furniture brand Carl Hansen & Son. (more...) View the full article

News: as the UK government today unveiled its first independent architecture report, project leader Terry Farrell admitted to Dezeen that public expectations for healthcare buildings "are low" and that architects don't have enough influence to change the status quo (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Movie: chief design officer for Philips Lighting Rogier van der Heide explains how advances in LED technology are enabling lighting to be integrated into the surfaces of walls, floors and ceilings. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: this year's biennale avoids contemporary architecture and has "nothing to do with design," curator Rem Koolhaas said yesterday while conducting a preview tour.(more...) View the full article

The shortlist for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize and Airbnb's rebrand fiasco lead this week's Dezeen Mail issue 211. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 211 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a waste incinerator and power plant in the Danish city of Roskilde with a spotty perforated facade that lights up at night as if there's a fire burning within (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This giant cube that appears to have landed on its side in the mountains is a proposal by Czech studio Atelier 8000 for a facilities building in Slovakia's High Tatras peaks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: designers including Marti Guixè and Stefano Giovannoni will be among the teaching staff of a food design course being co-developed by one of Italy's leading design schools – an increasingly popular subject area for design education (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has designed a building shaped like a field of sand dunes to house the headquarters of Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah. (more…) View the full article