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Dezeenwire: take a look at the latest addition to the planned ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture for London by Anish Kapoor - Architects Journal See also: our story on Kapoor’s design. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Munich jewellery designer Patrik Muff has designed a collection of pendents for porcelain manufacturer Nymphenburg. (more…) </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

Dezeenwire: the Victoria and Albert museum in London are to launch an open international competition this autumn to design an extension to the museum on Exhibition Road - Independent </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: over 30 design companies will present their work at Tramshed, 32 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3LX from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The AR-Studio app by Jung uses augmented reality to help users visualise its range of products and fittings within an interior space. Read more View the full article

As part of Dezeen's yearly review, reporter Natasha Levy has picked out the biggest interior design trends of 2019, including colour-block cabinetry, cave-style spaces and multi-use showrooms. Read more View the full article

At the Royal College of Art graduate show in London earlier this month designer Elena Figus presented a vaccine carrier that uses evaporative cooling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Colourful ceiling mosaics mark areas for different activities at this thermal spa in Vienna by 4a Architekten of Stuttgart. (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

London designers Zerofee have created a mobile web app for following the #milanuncut project. (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]

Vienna Design Week 2011: Austrian designer Konstantin Schmölzer has squeezed a wooden tower into the space between a green wall and glass atrium at Jean Nouvel’s Sofitel hotel for Vienna Design Week. Watch the movie » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Boym Partners created these vases by joining crystal planes in homage to the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Furuichi and Associates has completed a museum dedicated to Japan's Jōmon period, featuring a multi-faceted roofscape designed to evoke the inside of a cave (+ slideshow). (more…) 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 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…

London College of Fashion graduate Ana Rajcevic has created a series of tusks, horns and spines for the human body. (more…) 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

Here’s another movie by Brazilian architectural photographer Pedro Kok (see yesterday’s film of Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus), this time of a gallery in Brumadinho, Brazil, designed by Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam studio 24H architecture have completed this office building in the Netherlands that has a solid concrete and asphalt south facade and a patterned timber north facade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design studio Beta Tank have designed a chair with moving panels that transform it from a functional object (on which tax is payable at 19%) to an art object (tax payable at 7%). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York studio BHDM have completed the interior of this boutique gay hotel in Miami Beach, where visitors encounter a life-size statue of a polar bear holding a beach ball in the lobby. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article