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Week six of Virtual Design Festival features a collaboration with Prague's centre for architecture and urban planning CAMP, including a live interview with Kengo Kuma. We also team up with magazine Sight Unseen and Stockholm Design Week, plus we launch a new series of Screentime interviews featuring leading designers sponsored by Philips. Read more View the full article

Berlin designers Johannes Laue and Johannes Schroth have created customisable covers for the standard internet routers and television decoders provided by Deutsche Telekom. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm Dialog has revealed plans for a cross-laminated timber university building in Canada, which it says will be the first of its kind. Read more View the full article

Belgian designers Creneau International have completed the interior of a store at Antwerp Central station for Belgian mobile phone providers BASE. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: the inner rippling patterns of semi-precious stones are featured across the "dreamlike" furniture and fabrics in Fornasetti's Malachite collection. Read more View the full article

Here are some images of the pieces created by the winners of this year’s W Hotels Designers of the Future awards rAndom International, Beta Tank, Graham Hudson, and Zigelbaum & Coelho. The pieces were presented at Design Miami/Basel in Switzerland last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeewire: Rowan Moore on the projects that didn’t make this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist - ObserverSee also: our story announcing the RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist 2010</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Dutch firm OMA have unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This proposal by Amsterdam architects RAU and design agency Powerhouse Company is one of three projects vying to win a competition to design a dance and music centre for The Hague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This mobile made up of intertwined steel branches is by Japanese designer Koichi Futatsumata of Case-Real. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: construction on Shenzhen’s tallest tower – and eighth tallest in the world – the Kingkey Finance tower, designed by international architecture firm Farrells, is almost complete. Due to be finished in August, the 441.8m tower will comprise accommodation, offices and retail spaces and a cinema. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Process5 Design of Osaka have completed the interior of this bridal shop in Himeji, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: German designer Stefan Diez will present this chair made using vehicle manufacturing technology for design brand Wilkhahn in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a mosque, Islamic centre and museum in Tirana, Albania. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These archival buildings in Aylesbury, England, by London studio Stephen Marshall Architects are screened by a uniform line of oak beams. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beneath a wide skylight, a white spiralling staircase descends the three storeys of this high school in Lille by French architects Tank. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the Venice Architecture Biennale was underway, where Rem Koolhaas was awarded the Golden Lion as OMA unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. Our favourite pavilions included a forest of acrylic fronds that moved as though breathing in the Canadian pavilion, a cloud suspended inside the Arsenale exhibition space and a blue foam model city in the Dutch pavilion. Meanwhile we previewed the new identity for Dezeen Watch Store, which launched the following month. Umbro released the new England Home Kit by graphic design legend Peter Saville, Biomega presented a range of bicycles for Puma, C. F. Møller w…

Nothing but a four metre-high door penetrates the plain facade of this house in northern Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British architect Richard Rogers has warned that plans by the UK government to simplify planning regulations could lead to unmoderated urban sprawl, “with rust belts and towns joining each other” – Daily Mail He added: “If the framework is not improved it will lead to the breakdown and fragmentation of cities and neighbourhoods as well as the erosion of the countryside.” Rogers’ concerns about the government’s new National Planning Policy Framework are shared by environmental campaigners who say they don’t offer a clear enough definition of sustainable development. Richard Rogers was involved in a planning battle in 2009 over his proposed redevelopment of…

A wooden bridge and a glazed garden room connect the two halves of this house in Matsuyama, Japan, by architect Hayato Komatsu. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including new work by Daniel Libeskind and Marc Newson, a temple for atheists and an office with a slide. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, plus all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week a huge new stadium by Foster + Partners opened in London, while yet more radical projects were proposed for the United Arab Emirates, including a bulging office block by Zaha Hadid and a revolving skyscraper. (more…) View the full article

Danish architects BIG and French studio FREAKS freearchitects have designed a cultural centre for Bordeaux with a huge stage in its middle. (more…) View the full article

London landmarks from Brick Lane to Brixton feature on this hand-drawn poster by graphic designer Jenni Sparks, now available at Dezeen Super Store, 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2. (more…) View the full article

London studio FAT will create an exhibition dedicated to architectural copying inside a 5-metre-high model of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 next week. (more…) View the full article