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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

A seafront auditorium in southern Spain has concave walls that resemble the deflated cheeks of someone taking a deep breath (photographs by Julien Lanoo). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Planks of a picnic table are draped over the railing at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year MVRDV’s Balancing Barn was nearing completion and the proposals for the V&A at Dundee were unveiled, including the eventual winning design by Kengo Kuma. The Royal College of Art launched a collection of pieces for sale by their graduates, Faye Toogood presented her debut furniture collection, Jasper Morrison unveiled a telephone for Swiss brand Punkt and Paul Cocksedge installed fluttering sheets of Corian at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dezeen Watch Store launched with two pop-ups at the London Design Festival 2010, including Uniform Wares’ 200 Series. See all our stories from September 2010 » See our review of last year » …

A bevelled cantilever contains the living room of this house in Nagoya, Japan, by architects Studio SKLIM. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2012: Stockholm designer Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF presents this pendant lamp inspired by the fenders and buoys that hang down from the side of boats at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Overlapping walls of curving concrete encase this funeral chapel in Graz by Austrian architects Hofrichter-Ritter. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: New York architect Steven Holl has concealed a underground gallery beneath a pool of water in Seoul, the city in South Korea that we’ve been focusing on following a string of proposals for skyscrapers. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: London graduate exhibition New Designers 2012 will showcase the work of over 3500 graduate designers from 27 to 30 June and 4 to 7 July, and Dezeen readers receive a special discount on tickets to attend the show. (more…) View the full article

New York architect Joel Sanders has overhauled a library at Princeton University by installing interactive technology and colour-coded study areas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has today been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture. (more…) View the full article

News: Sebastian Wrong has resigned as design director of Established & Sons, becoming the fourth of five founding partners to exit the British design brand. (more…) View the full article

Product news: this lamp by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders for his design brand Moooi looks like a car headlamp but with floral patterns in the glass. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Paris design studio A+A Cooren has designed a table and a console with branching metal legs for French brand La Redoute. (more...) View the full article