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Milan design platform Alcova is taking over VDF today to present a programme of interviews with eight international studios whose work could guide us into a better post-pandemic future. Read more View the full article

Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion is nearing completion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens in May. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Patkau Architects of Vancouver have won a competition to design six houses in the nature reserve surrounding the iconic Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania by the late Frank Lloyd Wright. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Campaign have installed a cardboard shop selling architecture books as part of the London Festival of Architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: British architect David Chipperfield is to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. See press release below. See all our stories about David Chipperfield » Listen to our podcast interview with David Chipperfield » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine have designed a mobile food stall for cooking and selling pig heads. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Mathias Hahn’s Scantling lamps (see our earlier story) have been put into production with Barcelona brand Marset. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This bicylce helmet designed by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin erupts from its hiding place inside a scarf when triggered by abnormal movements. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Marcial Ahsayane of Brussels has designed an oil bottle and pestle that combine to make a rolling pin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Patkau Architects of Canada created this group of temporary plywood skating shelters huddled together by a skating trail along a frozen river in Winnipeg. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In more fashion news, designer Elham Seyed Javad of Canadian company ResportOn designed a hood for Muslim women who want to keep their hair covered while playing sport. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Danish designers KiBiSi designed a flying car, Eindhoven duo BCXSY were dressed as cavemen in our top ten primitive designs and an ice cream laboratory opened in London. (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

Dezeen Wire: plans for branches of the Guggenheim, Louvre and other museums in Abu Dhabi by leading architects have been dealt a blow by delays to a key construction contract, according to a report in today’s Financial Times. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in his latest article for the Financial Times architecture critic Edwin Heathcote analyses how some cities have successfully reinvented themselves as hubs of creativity and commerce – Financial Times Heathcote states that “the city stands out as an engine of progress and modernity,” using examples from urban centres such as San Francisco, Milan, Turin, Pittsburgh and London to demonstrate how intelligent state funding can encourage creative vitality and economic growth. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the Groninger Museum re-opened in the Netherlands following a renovation including areas designed by Studio Job, Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayón. Also in the Netherlands, Marcel Wanders created a dinner service for Dutch airline KLM and Hella Jongerius presented 300 porcelain vases at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where forty of them were damaged when a visitor to the museum became ill and fell over. Popular stories on Dezeen included a city with buildings that roll around on train tracks, a bright yellow nursery school outside Stockholm and conceptual packaging design for well-known supermarket products with stripped-back packaging.…

This week the Olympic torch by BarberOsbery won the top prize at the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year awards, a decision that divided Dezeen readers and provoked some design critics to question the validity of the awards. A restoration of historic ship the Cutty Sark in London by Grimhaw architects also proved controversial, with one reader describing it as “stunning”, while another said: “They have skewered the ship like a kebab. Thoroughly disrespectful.” See reaction from architecture critics to this project here. In other architecture news, OMA presented designs for a Moscow gallery to be housed in a converted 1960s restaurant, New York architect Steven Holl reve…

Japanese architect Takato Tamagami has completed two homes in Tokyo that are tangled around each other. (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail features a house with an extreme cantilever (above), mugs designed for dunking large cookies and squidgy nude sculptures, plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 111 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

If carrying a wet papery packet home puts you off fresh fish from the counter at your local supermarket, London designers PostlerFerguson have designed a series of sleek sleeves to promote the less endangered types. (more…) View the full article

Spanish design studio Masquespacio have turned a dilapidated Valencia art gallery into an office for a law firm, featuring clusters of empty picture frames on the walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: experimental architect and artist Lebbeus Woods has died at the age of 72. (more…) View the full article

Unsure what to ask Santa for? We’ve made a new Pinterest board full of suggestions for Christmas presents and stocking fillers. Check out Dezeen’s Christmas list on Pinterest » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Karina Wiciak of Polish design studio Wamhouse imagines paper chairs and chandeliers suspended on meat hooks in this fantasy interior inspired by a slaughterhouse (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with David Chipperfield (pictured above), Troika and Getty Images, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Based Upon, Marcel Wanders and more... (more...) View the full article