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As part of its takeover of Virtual Design Festival today, ArkDes is giving Dezeen readers a guided video tour of its current exhibition exploring the phenomenon of ASMR. Tune in from 3:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

This time last year architects Planning Korea designed a futuristic media bridge that resembled a string of bubbles, while the Dutch Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo won the best project at the Dutch Design Awards 2010, despite one of readers commenting that “the Netherlands is represented here like a crazy playground!” Less flamboyant projects that proved popular included a temple in India built by villagers using local stone, a zig-zagging extension joining the two halves of a school in southern Spain and a minimal Japanese house with a double-height glazed void in the centre. Established & Sons filmed designers creating installations in a day at their Mayfair gall…

De Hogeschool West-Vaanderen graduate Janwillem Van Maele cast this concrete side table inside a suspended fabric mould. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These pens by London designers Yuri Suzuki and Oscar Diaz can record sound as a line on paper and then play it back. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a range of glass lights for Swedish heritage brand Svenskt Tenn, marrying together a print by Josef Frank with Venetian glassblowing techniques. Read more

Dutch designer Tim Vinke has created a mobile office made up of a desk and two chairs that fit together like pieces of a puzzle to form a trolley. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This wooden chair by designers Markus Bergström and Joe Nunn of Glass Hill for Phillips de Pury is on show at the Saatchi Gallery in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong department store Lane Crawford invited eight designers including Tom Dixon (above), Michael Young, Jaime Hayón and Ilse Crawford to revamp the Chinese ming-style chair for an exhibition currently on show at the ifc mall in Hong Kong. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Centre Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban and French architect Jean de Gastines opens today in Lorraine, France - Guardian More information about the building in our earlier story. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German design firm Nils Holger Moormann will present this leaning coat stand by designers Martin Pärn and Edina Dufala-Pärn at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Books can be stored beneath the wide steps of this staircase, designed by Zminkowska De Boise Architects to connect the two halves of a split-level living room inside a renovated London flat. (more…) View the full article

Swedish interior designers Guise have inserted these tall black free-standing cabinets throughout a Stockholm apartment. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Nelly Ben Hayoun wants volunteers to live with a volcano in their lounge. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lebanon architects Atelier Hapsitus’s proposed design for the new headquarters of the BLC bank in Beirut would cantilever over the existing building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Fabio Novembre will present this robot-shaped shelving unit for design brand Casamania in Milan next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Madrid studio Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos have added two exhibition pavilions to the city walls of Logroño in Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Dutch firm OMA have unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Customers can leave their children playing downstairs and dine beside a four metre-high model elephant at this Bucharest restaurant. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs including positions with David Chipperfield Architects, Steven Holl Architects and Marcel Wanders, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with Skandium in London, Smart Design in New York and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designers Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe have refurbished a concert hall in Eindhoven. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German-Taiwanese designer Béatrix Li-Chin Loos has created this series of spherical vases from layers of scrap wood, glass, cardboard and leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have submitted proposals to Greenwich Council for a walkway spanning the roof of the O2 Arena in London – Greenwich.co.uk See the proposals here » See all our stories on Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stuttgart office Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten have completed this wooden observation tower in Hemer, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Trusses salvaged from an earthquake-damaged barn support the roof of this contemporary glass-walled summer cottage on the shores of one of Chile's largest lakes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Here’s an update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with us at Dezeen and Dezeen Watch Store, Amanda Levete Architects and graphic designers Micha Weidmann Studio. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Marcel Wanders, Established and Sons and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article