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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]

Dezeen Screen: here’s another chance to see Sweeper Clock, a movie presented by Dutch designer Maarten Baas in Milan in April 2009, featuring two men with brooms pushing lines of debris to form moving clock hands. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo 2010: Japanese designer Naoki Kawamoto presented this faceted spectacle case folded from a single net at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture students in four different year groups at the University of Kentucky College of Design present projects in this VDF school show. Read more 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

London designer Simon Hasan has hand-made 400 bowls, cups and vases from boiled leather, which he will sell via a vending machine. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Pareid and students from Chulalongkorn University have built an open-walled classroom around two water collecting funnels in western Thailand. Read more View the full article

These wooden cabinets covered in acrylic fragments are by Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana for Italian brand Edra. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian design company Alessi will present this folding chair by British architect David Chipperfield in Milan next month. (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

Danish bicycle company Biomega and design collective KiBiSi have collaborated to create this new bike for sports brand Puma. (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

Glassware brand Nude's new collections include a bird-shaped carafe designed by Tomas Kral to "put a smile on the user's face". Read more View the full article

Architects SOMAA of Stuttgart have completed an extension to a school in Leonberg, Germany, made of board-formed concrete where the boards were skewed to form a pattern. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have submitted proposals to Greenwich Council for a walkway spanning the roof of the O2 Arena in London – Greenwich.co.uk See the proposals here » See all our stories on Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An extension to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by London architect Rick Mather has opened to the public in Richmond, Virginia, USA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects Studio Bellecour have completed a pair of office buildings near Toulouse, France, wrapped in aluminum fins and connected by a twisting concrete element. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Marble lattice surrounds the entrance to a paramedical college in Agroha, India, clad in red sandstone by architecture practice SpaceMatters. Read more 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…

Barnaba Fornasetti will reveal the Italian brand's new Milan showroom and collection with an exclusive live tour and interview as part of today's VDF collaboration with Fornasetti. Watch from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Bill Mitchell, former dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and one of the world’s leading urban theorists, had died aged 65. MIT News has published an obituary. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

It was a busy time for architects OMA this week five years ago, as they released designs for major projects that included a large urban development in the United Arab Emirates (above) and a 300-metre skyscraper in Mexico City (below). (more…) View the full article

Cologne 2011: young designer Anne Lorenz presented this storage chest modelled on an enormous handbag as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clustered pendant lights are suspended over one of the open food and drink preparation areas of this London restaurant by Chinese designers Neri&Hu. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Netherlands design studio Overtreders W have designed an exhibition featuring shipping containers made of textiles at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article