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A walkable concrete roof on thin steel stilts connects and shades the textured brick blocks of a training centre in Hanoi by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Read more

Dutch design collective Envisions has developed a paving strategy for the city of Eindhoven that involves cutting, washing and stamping stones. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the top three wallpaper designs in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition have been revealed, and their designers have shared the thinking behind their work in interviews with Dezeen. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in degraded soil. Read more View the full article

British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong has replaced the well-known blue, red and white design of London Underground's roundel with colours and patterns from the pan-African flag. Read more View the full article

University of Hawaii architect graduate Joey Valenti has designed prefabricated and low-cost housing units made entirely from invasive albizia trees on the island of Oahu. Read more View the full article

US clothing brand Pangaia has released a puffer coat, whose filling is made with flowers in a bid to offer a cruelty-free alternative to duck or goose down. Read more View the full article

The ground appears to have fallen away beneath this minimal house, designed by British architect Jonathan Burlow in Kent. Read more View the full article

Citroën has released Ami, an electric car that will be available on a subscription service to city-dwellers as young as 14 years old as it doesn't require a driving license. Read more View the full article

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort will speak to Dezeen live from Cape Town at 2:00pm UK time in our first Screentime conversation of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the interview here or on our YouTube channel. Read more View the full article

Circular Union is launching Mush-Hues, a range of mushroom-based wood and fabric dyes, for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

With only 15 days left to enter Dezeen Awards here are 15 reasons why you should enter your project now. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Enchant is a porcelain surfacing collection by Caesar Ceramics that is designed to evoke wood and recreate "the feeling of a real walk through nature". Read more View the full article

Israeli designer Itay Laniado has designed a collapsible ladder held together by a strap under tension. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architect Winy Maas will join Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch here from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Here are some photos of the completed Austrian pavilion by Viennese architects SPAN and Zeytinoglu, which opens at Shanghai Expo 2010 this weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This building by Australian architects Lyons in Melbourne combines a family home with a museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Angela Brady has been elected the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. See press release below.Angela Brady elected next President of the RIBAAngela Brady has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. Angela will become President [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: a blue-foam model city is suspended in the top half of the Dutch pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian practice RUFproject have completed a football training centre in Soweto, South Africa, with wooden louvres wrapping the upper parts of the structure. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Milan 2011: Furniture designers BarberOsgerby will present this tilting chair for design brand Vitra in at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the third movie made by Dezeen in 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, architects Neville Mars and Marco Casagrande explain their projects. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed this office interior in Hong Kong for management consultancy McKinsey & Company. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with British designer Michael Young to give away five signed copies of his new book that chronicles his time working in China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article