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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a transparent mobile phone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us these photographs of two stone-clad buildings by Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects that form a research centre with accommodation on the island of São Miguel, Portugal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week’s most popular Dezeen story was Ai Weiwei’s porcelain sunflower seeds at the Tate Modern, so we’ve compiled a selection of projects from the Dezeen archives that incorporate ceramics. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The shape of theses vases by designers Judith van den Boom and Sharon Geschiere was derived from knotted rubber tubing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: here’s another machine by Mischer’Traxler (see their Nespresso Battery in our earlier story), this time a device for automatically decorating cakes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey indicates the architecture profession is still suffering downward trends in work levels and underemployment. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This underground railway station with criss-crossing concrete beams is by Hungarian firm Spora Architects and currently under construction in Budapest. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hungarian designer Flóra Vági presented a collection for jewellery made from wood, paper and old books at last week’s Budapest Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: Stockholm designers Claesson Koivisto Rune present a series of engraved carafes that can be converted into vases by adding various precious metal collars at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler made batteries from 700 used coffee capsules to power clocks installed in the window of Nespresso Austria during Vienna Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Peter Zumthor is rumoured to be the designer of next year’s Serpentine Pavilion - Londonist This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Jean Nouvel » Serpentine Gallery Pavilions over the years » See all our stories about Peter Zumthor » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Antilia, the “world’s most expensive house”, has been completed in Mumbai, India - Time </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a range of conservatory furniture for Kettal featuring aluminium frames wrapped in cord. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs by Edmund Sumner of the completed Balancing Barn holiday home in Suffolk, UK, by MVRDV and Mole Architects, including a swing under the 15 metre cantilever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: structural engineer Cecil Balmond has left Arup to found his own firm - Architectural Record </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors to this cafe in Barcelona by architect Barbara Appolloni are led up this concrete staircase to the upper storey and a terrace beyond. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Skyroom is a rooftop event space designed by David Kohn Architects above the Architecture Foundation’s London offices. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Marco Dessí of Vienna will present a light made from glass tubes woven with silk rope at SuperDesign in London, which opens tomorrow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week: Vienna designers Dottings presented a series of coffee cups made of recycled aluminium coffee capsules for coffee brand Nespresso in Vienna last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded at Vienna Design Week, graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister talks about his Austrian heritage, the benefits of keeping a diary and trying to prevent his studio growing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

English architect John Glew has introduced new fenestration and a zinc-clad extension to this mock-Georgian house in north London, squeezing the new structure into a wedge of land between the house and its neighbour. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: clothing brand Gap have scrapped their new logo, launched last week, after customers objected to the design – BBC </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Samuel Wilkinson created these mouth-blown glass lamps specifically to house the Plumen 001 low-energy light bulbs released by Hulger last month (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This sofa by Copenhagen designers KiBiSi consists of stacked pillows with fiber concrete buttons. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article