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Here’s the next house in the series of eleven by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </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

Dezeen Wire: Organisation in Design, the Dutch company behind Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan, are taking their concept to Berlin during new trade fair Qubique from 26 to 29 October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with FIELL Publishers to give away ten copies of the Little Book of Shocking Global Facts, compiled and designed by graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design studio Total Tool have completed the interiors for a mobile office space in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic launched this armchair inspired by windsurfing and paragliding equipment for design brand Vitra at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at new Berlin design fair Qubique 2011 last month, Ulrich Weingärtner, architect for organisers Offshow, discusses the design and spatial planning of the former city airport where the show was held. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The low-slung residence that Swiss architect Albert Frey elevated above a rocky hillside in Palm Springs, California in the 1950s has been restored. Read more 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

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

Competition: Dezeen have teamed up with Swiss brand Punkt. to offer readers the chance to win one of three limited-edition posters signed by Jasper Morrison. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The overhaul of a 1970s Los Angeles house originally designed by Frank Gehry and an interview with BIG founder Bjarke Ingels feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Dezeen Archive: following our popular story on Musashino Art University Library by Sou Fujimoto Architects (top right) composed of timber bookshelves, we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archives about libraries. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </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

Architecture students in four different year groups at the University of Kentucky College of Design present projects in this VDF school show. Read more 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

Dezeenwire: the RIBA in London have published a survey that points to tougher times ahead for architects. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product and jewellery designer Rita Botelho has created a series of earrings featuring tiny figurines, including this one in rock-climbing gear. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: European architects are becoming more enthusiastic about using prefabricated elements according to a report by Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision. See press release below. (more…) </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

Week ten of Virtual Design Festival features talks with architects and designers including Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom and Winy Maas, as well as collaborations with brands such as Stellar Works, Vitra and Rado, and organisations Mindcraft, London Festival of Architecture and What Design Can Do. Read more View the full article

This timber-clad beach cabin by Amsterdam-based studio Marc Koehler Architects is embedded into the sand dunes of a Dutch island, overlooking the North Sea (+ slideshow). (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