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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

VDF products fair: The Piper 103 sofa by RODA is distinguished by a slender, metallic body that is dressed by woven "belts" of coloured fabric. Read 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

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

Next in our series of movies by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok is this 1928 mModernist house in São Paulo by Gregori Warchavchik. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Zaha Hadid has been commissioned to design a limited edition speedboat for American art dealer Kenny Schachter (+ slideshow). (more…) 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

Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and Dutch design studio Vij5 presented a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month. (more…) </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

New York's Islyn Studio has overhauled an old lumber warehouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico and turned it into a sun-lit food hall with various spots to indulge. 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

Dezeenwire: industrial designer James Dyson is to succeed Terence Conran as Provost of London’s Royal College of Art. See press release below. Sir James Dyson to Succeed Sir Terence Conran as Provost of the Royal College of Art, London Sir James Dyson, the engineer entrepreneur, is to succeed Sir Terence Conran as Provost of the Royal College of Art. The Head of the College, the Provost presides over meetings of the Court and 
confers degrees at Convocation. Sir James will take up the post on 1 August 2011, when Sir Terence officially retires from the role.

 Sir James Dyson, whose term of appointment is five years, is widely acclaimed as one of the world’…

Dezeen Screen: here’s another chance to watch this interview we filmed with graphic designer Neville Brody back in 2009, now on Dezeen Screen. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buildings roll through the city on railway tracks in this masterplan by Swedish architects Jagnefalt Milton for Åndalsnes in Norway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This inflatable pillow on stilts is a picnic pavilion designed by Netherlands design studio Overtreders W. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architects GMP Architekten designed three stadiums for the World Aquatics Championships currently taking place in Shanghai. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Oslo architects PUSHAK have installed an indoor terrain of moss arches and screens for the London Festival of Architecture, which opened last weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Fenster seating collection by DesignByThem takes cues from traditional crittall windows and sees transparent acrylic offset against a metal frame. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: today is the final edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST in which we round up some of the other things that have been happening during the week. Tom Dixon demos the Digital Forming software he’s got on show that allows customers to customise their own bespoke Tom Dixon lamp or speaker and then purchase it online with the click of a button, Piers Roberts introduces the Designersblock exhibition in the cloisters of the museum and Achille Sassoli takes us on a tour of Carpigiani’s Gelato University. We also have footage of the MOST party from earlier in the week, as well as yesterday’s The Great Stamp Giveaway where 400 lucky visitors got their…

Following our recent feature about projects that intentionally look as though the builders haven’t left yet, here’s a restaurant in Mexico City with lumps of plaster and holes on its ceiling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

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

If the year 2012 does bring the world to an end, Mexican branding company Menosunocerouno plan to face the apocalypse in style with a survival kit that includes chocolate and hard liqueur. (more…) 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

This coat stand made from a ready-made 20 litre liquid container by London designer Peter Marigold is now in production with design brand Skitsch. Called 20 litre Coat Stand, the base can be weighted with water before a metal pole with branching hooks is attached by the screw-cap.Here’s some more information and photos of the [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article