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Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have designed this apartment tower with overhanging floor plates and terraces for Beirut, Lebanon. Created as part of a wider masterplan to regenerate this area of the city that includes a marina, the building will comprise five different modular floor slabs used in varying combinations to create a mixture of [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house by Spanish architects Subarquitectura spirals down a sloping site in Madrid. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The LLOVE exhbition currently on show in Tokyo comprises a hotel with rooms created by Dutch and Japanese designers, including this one by Pieke Bergmans filled with an enormous undulating mattress. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lausanne studio 2b Architectes have renovated a 16th century tower in Echandens, Switzerland, by inserting a three-storey larch box. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The lower level of this village doctor's surgery in Spain is sunken down below road level and partially embedded in a slope, allowing it to appear the same size as the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

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

Designers Studio Weave have installed a meandering 324 metre-long bench on the seafront at Littlehampton in the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Competition: once again Dezeen have teamed up with Design Association in Japan to give 10 designers and artists free exhibition space at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition during Tokyo Designers Week 2010 from 29 October to 3 November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is a collection of projects by product design students from ECAL – Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, based on the Axor Bouroullec bathroom collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Viennese designer Marco Dessí created these stacking chairs milled from plywood to reveal the material’s multiple layers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pavilion by London architects Plasma Studio is located at the heart of the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo, which is currently taking place in China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen, CF Møller revealed photos of Sweden's tallest timber building and Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman was prevented from entering the United States. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic launched this armchair inspired by windsurfing and paragliding equipment for design brand Vitra at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Val collection by Konstantin Grcic for Swiss manufacturer Laufen consists of flexible and dynamic designs that rethink the proportions of bathrooms. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects ALPHAville have completed this terraced house in Takarazuka, Japan with a roof that follows the slope of the site. (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

Photographer Matthew Carbone has sent us his photos of Frank Gehry’s latest project, the recently-completed Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brothers Adrian and Jeremy Wright of London based design studio DesignWright have released this set of stackable. colour-coded stationary in collaboration with design brand Lexon. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a collection of tableware for Italian brand Alessi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Giles Miller has created a pop-up shop for Stella McCartney, spelling out the fashion designer’s name in two metre-high cardboard lettering. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Google opened a campus for startups in east London, Yves Bahar launched a bigger and louder version of his Jambox wireless speaker and BIG unveiled designs for a tower block shaped like a hashtag. Meanwhile we’ve been busy editing the interviews we filmed at Dezeen Studio in Milan and you can now watch the full-length movies on Dezeen Screen, including Zaha Hadid on projects she has in the pipeline, Joseph Grima on how crowd-sourcing and open design are reshaping industry and Justin McGuirk on the future of design criticism. Our most popular story was a glass house in Belgium with a sunken swimming pool in front, closely followed by our series of stories about…

New exhibition space Křehký Gallery has opened inside a former ham factory in Prague. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buildings roll through the city on railway tracks in this masterplan by Swedish architects Jagnefalt Milton for Åndalsnes in Norway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a system that extracts moisture from air like a desert-dwelling beetle has won this year’s James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article