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Dezeen archive: our two most popular stories this week were V-House (top left) and Fabric Facade Studio Apartment (bottom right), both in the Netherlands, so we’ve compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about Dutch houses. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show in London designer Nicola Zocca presents a series of furniture made by shrinking plastic around its joints. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

This Amsterdam apartment by Dutch interior architects i29 has two pine wood wall cabinets hiding most of the functional appliances and fitings, allowing for a completely open space. (more…) </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

This house in Barcelona by architect Santiago Parramón of RTA-Office is clad in slabs of basalt. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Richard Clarkson has created a conceptual smartphone with a rotary dial. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam-based Earnest Studio has designed a pair of products for Danish design brand Muuto – a lamp featuring individual lighting units fixed to a metal pole by magnets and a vase with a kinked profile. Read more View the full article

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

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

VDF products fair: Elastic belts dressed with colourful yarn decorate Paola Lenti's playful Telar collection of matching outdoor furniture. Read more View the full article

Here are the winning projects from the Design Competition at Interieur 2010 in Kortrijk last week, including these combined lamps and vases by Miriam Aust (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our previous story about a labia-like staircase, these images by French photographer Stefan Tuchila illustrate the womb-like orbs created by artist Anish Kapoor in the Grand Palais, Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A chair grown from fungi and hemp and ceramics inspired by occult rituals are among the design pieces presented by The Mindcraft Project for VDF. Read more View the full article

House-shaped windows of different sizes protrude from the facade of this mixed-use building in South Korea, offering clues about the "three-dimensional puzzle-like composition" of rooms inside (+ slideshow). (more…) 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

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

It’s been a week of unfortunate likenesses for architecture on Dezeen with RMJM’s “big pants” tower for China (above) followed by the “big sink” extension to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (below). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this interview filmed in Milan last month, London designer Philippe Malouin tells us about The Yachiyo metal rug, which is handmade from galvanised steel wire. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This residence in Beijing by Beijing Matsubara and Architects was built around a smaller house that was already on the site. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven designer Laurens Manders has created this lumpy safe for stashing possessions with sentimental value. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

BeL Architects of Germany have transformed a listed former railway workers’ house in Cologne into a family home. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

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