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Dezeen promotion: the Spanish Confederation of Wood, Confemadera, present a selection of projects by Spanish architects and designers that use wood creatively. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Last week Amsterdam studios DUS Architecten and Studio for Unsolicited Architecture built a dome of umbrellas around a lamp post in Rotterdam and held a party under it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The interior of this cycling shop in Athens by React Architects of Greece is clad in bands of oriented strand board and artificial turf. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’re slightly later than usual with this update but scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with UNStudio in Amsterdam, Mikou Design Studio in Paris and Hogarth Architects in London. Plus this is the last chance to apply for jobs with broadcaster Al Jazeera English, designers Studio Eric Degenhardt and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer James Laurie has cut the top of a drinking glass into a point so that it can be used to trap spiders in the corner of a room. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam designer Michael Schoner has designed a series of paper masks without eye holes that look a bit like animals. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Page One Publishing to give away five copies of Jyanzi Kong’s new architecture book, Geometry of the Unconscious. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designers Atelier Van Lieshout will unveil an eight metre-tall sculpture featuring oil drums and human figures in Rotterdam tomorrow. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London fashion designer Lu Flux has launched her autumn/winter collection 2010, which features salvaged textiles and fairytale characters. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A cross-shaped window in the sliding door of this Belgian pharmacy transforms into a green sign during opening hours. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorne discusses German graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who developed the influential Isotype system of graphic symbols in the 1920s and who is the subject of an exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Read the New York Times article. Isotype: international picture language is at the V&A until 13 March. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo studio Shuichiro Yoshida Architects have completed a tall narrow toilet block in Chikusei City, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Paul Coudamy has created a curvaceous book case lining the walls of Paris apartment. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch artists Studio Job designed the scenography for the Fall/Winter 2010 collection by fashion designers Viktor & Rolf, premiered earlier this month in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Fabio Novembre will launch a chair for Casamania in Milan next month featuring a transparent polycarbonate seat supported on a cantilevered aluminium frame. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of a kindergarten in Zaragoza, Spain, by Spanish office Magén Arquitectos. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers TAF of Sweden have designed a lamp for Swedish lighting brand Zero, similar in appearance and construction to an embroidery frame. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss designers Big-Game launched an armchair that looks like a quilt-covered deckchair at the Villa Noailles design festival in France this weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: in our latest movie filmed in Milan this week and published on our new video website Dezeen Screen, Margriet Vollenberg and Margo Koning of Organisation in Design take us on a tour of Ventura Lambrate, the design district they founded. Watch the movie </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Hidehiro Fukuda Architects have completed this house lined with oriented strand board in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: designer Mike Meiré invited visitors to a fetish club furnished with customised design classics at his Cologne factory during the imm cologne trade fair last week (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss artist Felice Varini has used brightly coloured paintwork to transform the rooftop of Le Corbusier's iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille into a huge optical illusion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: The Guardian presents a slideshow of the last collection by fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide last month aged 40. The collection was presented posthumously by his studio at Paris fashion week – The Guardian. Related story: Alexander McQueen 1969-2010 </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden explains the different types of torii gates found at Japanese Shinto temples, in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Our biggest story this week is Apple’s new headquarters by Foster + Partners (above, top left) which sparked some hilarious comments and tweets. For those still reeling from last week’s riots in the UK, and our more generally security-conscious readers, we’ve compiled all our stories about homes that resemble bunkers and fortresses. On a lighter note Paul Cocksedge has melted some vinyl records to make analogue speakers, Coop Himmelb(l)au present a church that looks like a cream cake and Dezeen readers are charmed by a secret passageway that’s concealed by a mirror. Meanwhile Will Alsop has named his new London practice having announced his departure from R…