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Design cooperative NAU have completed this interior for Austrian bank Raiffeisen in Zurich, featuring curving walls perforated to create pictures of faces. (more…) </img></img> </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

South Korean designer Soojin Kang has covered a range of second hand chairs in a patchwork of fabric. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firms Brooks + Scarpa and Studio Dwell have created a suburban Chicago home with an inner courtyard screened from the road by "vertical twisting columns" of brick. Read more

Colourful ceiling mosaics mark areas for different activities at this thermal spa in Vienna by 4a Architekten of Stuttgart. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban completed his Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch this week. Keep reading for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: Austrian designer Konstantin Schmölzer has squeezed a wooden tower into the space between a green wall and glass atrium at Jean Nouvel’s Sofitel hotel for Vienna Design Week. Watch the movie » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Boym Partners created these vases by joining crystal planes in homage to the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Furuichi and Associates has completed a museum dedicated to Japan's Jōmon period, featuring a multi-faceted roofscape designed to evoke the inside of a cave (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Apple is swapping its emoji of a revolver for a brightly coloured water pistol in what appears to be a show of opposition to gun violence. (more…) View the full article

White display stands inside this Los Angeles boutique designed by Bureau Spectacular fit together like a puzzle, forming a set of steps for events and performances (+ slideshow). (more…) 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

Next in our series of movies by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok is this 1928 mModernist house in São Paulo by Gregori Warchavchik. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a power plant for Copenhagen with their design that will double up as a ski slope. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Zerofee have created a mobile web app for following the #milanuncut project. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Victoria and Albert museum in London are to launch an open international competition this autumn to design an extension to the museum on Exhibition Road - Independent </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco designers Mike and Maaike have created a space divider comprising overlapping grids of batons. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

An angular concrete box has been stacked on top of a rectilinear one to create the form of this yachting club facility near Buenos Aires (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This inflatable pillow on stilts is a picnic pavilion designed by Netherlands design studio Overtreders W. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects GMP Architekten designed three stadiums for the World Aquatics Championships currently taking place in Shanghai. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: today is the final edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST in which we round up some of the other things that have been happening during the week. Tom Dixon demos the Digital Forming software he’s got on show that allows customers to customise their own bespoke Tom Dixon lamp or speaker and then purchase it online with the click of a button, Piers Roberts introduces the Designersblock exhibition in the cloisters of the museum and Achille Sassoli takes us on a tour of Carpigiani’s Gelato University. We also have footage of the MOST party from earlier in the week, as well as yesterday’s The Great Stamp Giveaway where 400 lucky visitors got their…

Cape Town designer Piers Mansfield-Scaddan of Fly-Pitcher presented these lamps based on the faceted shape of a stove-top coffee pot at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article