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This tableware by Dutch designer Jochem de Wit is made of concrete, cast glass and brick. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Plastiki boat made entirely from plastic bottles (see our earlier story) has arrived in Sydney after a 130-day voyage across the Pacific from San Francisco. More information on the Plastiki blog.See also: our story about the boat’s design.</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents possibilities for the re-use of vacant factories in former industrial towns across Russia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In anticipation of tonight’s announcement of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010 winner here are six videos about the shortlisted designs including the bookmaker’s favourite, the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (above) by Zaha Hadid Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architects have tranformed a 1930s church into a house in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shoes are displayed on conveyor belts at this store in Barcelona by Spanish firm Bailo+Rull ADD Arquitectura. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Octopus Publishing to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of The Joy of Home by Naomi Cleaver. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a house with gardens on all three levels designed by Singaporean studio Guz Architects on Santosa Island, Singapore. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul designer Jeongmi Lee has designed a conceptual domestic robot that steals your duvet in the morning and poos all over the floor. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: our most popular story this week is Zaha Hadid’s Wangjing Soho retail complex for Beijing, so here’s a roundup of all our stories about projects in China. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

 Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom, central London owner of Ligne Roset Robert Hasty talks about pieces by Jean Nouvel and Inga Sempé. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year architects Planning Korea designed a futuristic media bridge that resembled a string of bubbles, while the Dutch Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo won the best project at the Dutch Design Awards 2010, despite one of readers commenting that “the Netherlands is represented here like a crazy playground!” Less flamboyant projects that proved popular included a temple in India built by villagers using local stone, a zig-zagging extension joining the two halves of a school in southern Spain and a minimal Japanese house with a double-height glazed void in the centre. Established & Sons filmed designers creating installations in a day at their Mayfair gall…

Continuing our fifth birthday celebrations this week, here is the Dezeen team’s list of the five best parties we’ve hosted since we launched in 2006: (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: Italian furniture brand Magis presented these hanging sculptures made of wire mesh by sculptor Benedetta Mori Ubaldini at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) View the full article

The most popular stories on Dezeen this week include hidden furniture, a home delivered by helicopter and pyramid-shaped beach huts. (more…) View the full article

Museums, galleries, exhibitions and installations were in the news this week five years ago, as Coop Himmelb(l)au’s extension to the Akron Art Museum opened in Ohio (above) and the winner of a competition to design a museum dedicated to the ice age (below) was announced for Siberia. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: London designer Benjamin Hubert has launched a lighting collection made of underwear fabric (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

Visitors to this installation in northern Denmark by German artist Thilo Frank are invited to walk through a contorted loop of timber while listening to the sounds of their voices and footsteps played back to them (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: this Saturday the V&A museum opens its new permanent gallery for furniture, displaying objects from the middle ages to the present day by designers including Thomas Chippendale, Charles and Ray Eames and Ron Arad. (more…) View the full article

Our recap of the week on Dezeen leads with our most popular and most commented story, the news that a Zaha Hadid-designed building has been pirated in China. Also, scroll on for Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the A' Design Award is now accepting architecture, interior and design project submissions for this year's competition. (more...) View the full article

This leisure centre in Amsterdam by Dutch architects VenhoevenCS was designed as a fortress covered in plants (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Rooms are contained within wooden boxes inside this long and low concrete house in Brazil by architecture office Studio MK27 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Windows of various shapes and sizes give this weekend retreat on the south coast of Japan the appearance of a children's shape-sorter toy. (more...) View the full article

These 3D-printed accessories by London fashion designer Catherine Wales can be ordered to fit any body shape and printed on demand (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article