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Munich jewellery designer Patrik Muff has designed a collection of pendents for porcelain manufacturer Nymphenburg. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev have completed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken-up hull of a boat. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Melbourne architects Lyon have completed this medical school for the University of Tasmania with a concrete façade punctuated by flowing arches and slanted windows. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: young designers Form Us With Love present an exhibition of their latest projects in a converted church in Stockholm this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Dezeen promotion: architecture and design products database Architonic present video interviews with designers including Naoto Fukasawa (above), Ineke Hans and Antonio Citterio, filmed at Orgatec 2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Comments update: Zaha Hadid's decision to sue the author and publisher of a book review that included allegedly defamatory comments generated some the week's most heated debate. (more...) View the full article

Pale oak surfaces contrast with dark timber beams inside Random Art Space, a gallery and cafe that Air Architects created in Hangzhou, China. Read more View the full article

Design studio Beta Tank have designed a chair with moving panels that transform it from a functional object (on which tax is payable at 19%) to an art object (tax payable at 7%). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pale timber partitions were used to transform a 180-year-old barn in Spain into an office space for and by studio Nordest Arquitectura. Read more View the full article

Design collective Outofstock have completed the interiors for a restaurant in Singapore, where the windows are covered by wooden panels with egg-shaped cutouts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent feature about projects that intentionally look as though the builders haven’t left yet, here’s a restaurant in Mexico City with lumps of plaster and holes on its ceiling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scottish architects PagePark have completed a centre for blinded sailors, soldiers and airmen in Wilkieston, Scotland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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…

The MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. (more…) </img></img> </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

Slovenian studio Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti have completed a metal-recycling plant in Pivka, Slovenia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tel Aviv studio Derman Verbakel Architecture have installed a series of archways and mobile furniture between the city and the sea in Bat Yam, Israel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

It’s been a week of unfortunate likenesses for architecture on Dezeen with RMJM’s “big pants” tower for China (above) followed by the “big sink” extension to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (below). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: with the London Design Festival just around the corner, Dezeen have teamed up with new east London destination The Tramshed to provide a downloadable guide to the exhibition and talks programme. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan presents work including these moulds used to make his Inertia series of dresses (see our earlier story) at Spring Projects in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s another chance to watch this interview we filmed with graphic designer Neville Brody back in 2009, now on Dezeen Screen. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks about his studio’s tradition of sending unusual handmade Christmas cards in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick’s exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Long, narrow windows cut across the sides of a house in Okayama, Japan, to reveal the locations of internal walls and floors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another movie by Brazilian architectural photographer Pedro Kok (see yesterday’s film of Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus), this time of a gallery in Brumadinho, Brazil, designed by Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article