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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

 London studio West Architecture refurbished the ground floor of this London office by dividing the lobby and meeting room with sliding wooden screens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This observation tower by Munich office terrain:loenhart&mayr rises over the river Mur at the Austrian border with Slovenia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scottish brewery BrewDog have packaged their latest range of beers inside dead animals. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design competition: there’s only one week left to enter our competition with Design Association in Japan to win free exhibition space at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition during Tokyo Designers Week 2010 from 29 October to 3 November. More details » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with Dutch architects MVRDV to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Green Dream – How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, written by The Why Factory foundation. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British studio Fletcher Crane Architects have won a competition to design a waterside office building on the river Aire in Leeds, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Jay Merrick on the rollout of Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project, creating contemporary holiday homes in the UK - Independent See also: Houses by Peter Zumthor, MVRDV and others for Living Architecture (July 2010) Balancing Barn by MVRDV and Mole Architects (May 2009) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Norwegian firm Snøhetta have been selected to design an extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – more details in press release below (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian designer Philippe-Albert Lefebvre has created a range of fire tools by casting hand-carved branches in bronze and iron. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These lamp shades wrapped in adhesive tape are by Italian designer Sylvia Pichler for design brand Skitsch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This boat made entirely from plastic bottles by Exploration Architecture is making its way across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney in order to highlight environmental damage to the seas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This sculpture in the Netherlands countryside by Dutch designers Tjep. comprises a series of steel elements that when viewed from a certain point form the outline of a traditional farm building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: in the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents young Canadian designer Philippe Malouin talks about the inspiration he finds in art and architecture and also talks us through some of his own work. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Tord Bootje presents a collection of work made with lace-making techniques from materials including grass and raffia at the Marsden Woo Gallery in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Toby Horrocks and designer Kristian Aus have created this fold-out cardboard shop interior for the State of Design festival in Melbourne. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (above) is one of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Former European skateboarding champion and architect Matthias Bauer of MBA/S Associates has designed a skatepark and youth club in Stuttgart, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: a team led by Norwegian architects Snøhetta have won a competition to redesign Times Square in New York. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At the Royal College of Art graduate show in London earlier this month designer Elena Figus presented a vaccine carrier that uses evaporative cooling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled this design for a performing arts centre in The Hague, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Ben Faga is encouraging bees in London to swarm and set up new hives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in São Paulo by Brazilian architect Flavio Castro consists of a cubic volume perched on two yellew beams that straddle the garage below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled their design for an office building in Paris, where the middle section will appear broken and twisted open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article