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Vienna architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to design the new Centre for Promotion of Science in Belgrade, Serbia, with this design supported on a network of diagonal stilts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Customers can play their own music inside booths at this pizza restaurant in Richmond, UK, designed by Ab Rogers of London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch graduate designer Carolien Laro has designed a range of stools with flexible seats created by cutting slits into their solid wood tops. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Bjorn Gudbrandsson and Egill Guðmundsson of Reykjavik firm Arkís have completed the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of the recently-completed Maggie’s Centre Cheltenham, a cancer care facility designed by London practice MJP Architects, (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Melbourne practice March Studio have trapped 4500 cardboard boxes behind netting in this store for Australian skincare brand Aesop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London communications and creative agency KK Outlet have commissioned seven designers to create a collection of unofficial commemorative china for the wedding of Prince William of Wales to Kate Middleton, to take place in April this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s an update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Marcel Wanders, Tom Dixon and Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with United Nude in China, UXUS in the Netherlands and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: critic Stephen Bayley is to chair the London Design Museum’s Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards this year. See press release below (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Hiroshima city by Japanese firm Suppose Design Office has a central staircase branching into wooden volumes that create a series of rooms and platforms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm Kokaistudios have completed a new building housing the faculty of law at Peking University in Beijing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Made to Pleasusre, a new online venture allowing customers to customize their own sex toys opens today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This lightweight lamp by French designer Léonard Kadid uses a book as a base. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sjoerd Vroonland of the Netherlands has designed a collection of chairs, including this one with branches sprouting from the back-rest. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design students Min‐Chieh Chen, Dominik Zausinger and Michele Leidi of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have sent us some images of a pavilion made of cardboard hoops. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial design students Emma Nilsson, Johanna Westin and Lisa Frode of Lund University, Sweden, have created a wooden bench with storage units as part of their Masters project. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Marc Dibeh of Lebanon has designed a table-top lamp with a sex toy stowed in its side. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To conclude our review of 2010, here are the five most-viewed stories from Dezeen in December, starting off with Charrat Transformation by Geneva studio clavienrossier, two concrete volumes on top of a stone house and barn in the Swiss Alps. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Next up: the five most popular Dezeen stories from November, kicking off with Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre in China by Zaha Hadid Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Moving on to the five most popular stories of October 2010, Homemade is Best, a cookbook featuring pictures of ingredients laid out in patterns for IKEA, was in at number one. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Next up in our review of 2010 are the five most popular stories from September. Number one was Residence in Kurakuen by NRM-Architects Office of Japan, featuring a staircase with treads cantilevering over a pool on the first-floor terrace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Moving on to our top five Dezeen stories from August this year, this house with a spiralling concrete slide by Indonesian architects Aboday was also our most popular story of the whole year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our review of the past year, our most popular story in July 2010 was an exhibition designed and curated by Zaha Hadid at Galerie Gmurzynska Zurich, tracing Hadid’s interest in the Russian avant-garde. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are the five most viewed Dezeen stories from June this year. In first place was the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Next up in our review of the year are Dezeen’s most popular stories from May. Designer Ronen Kadushin’s iPhone Killer, an open-source mallet for smashing up iPhones, came in at number one. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article