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In collaboration with PechaKucha, Virtual Design Festival is broadcasting a live programme of talks from 3:00am UK time featuring speakers in Wuhan, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Orlando and Tokyo. Read more View the full article

Vancouver studio Alyssa.Marcela presents Peel Vase Series, a range of vessels for cut flowers made of paper, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Harriet Harris, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

We’ve got together with Milan watch designer and Dezeen regular Denis Guidone to give away five of his latest designs for Italian product brand NAVA Design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Devon&Devon is teaming up with Virtual Design Festival to host a live streamed discussion about a new collaboration between the Italian design brand and global architecture and design firm Gensler. Watch live from 7:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana present pieces developed with Italian glass brand Venini inside the former coach house at Waddesdon Manor in the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This grinder by brothers Adrian and Jeremy Wright of London design studio DesignWright dispenses both salt and pepper. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York architect Alexander Pincus of Means of Production has designed this electrical extension lead in the shape of a cruciform. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm Takeshi Yamagata Architects have squeezed four buildings containing nine apartments onto a small suburban site in Tokyo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch practice HVDN architecten have completed this wood and aluminium-clad building to temporarily house a school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the organisers of Frieze Art Fair have announced that Carmody Groarke will design this year’s exhibition, to be held in London this October. (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

Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympics opened this week, exactly one year ahead of the opening ceremony, while new aerial photos of all the venues were released and the Olympic medal design failed to impress. See all our stories about the London 2012 Olympics here. Our most popular story of the week featured a cliff-top house inspired by a Picasso painting but our favourites were a kiosk at Grand Central made from torn copies of the New York Times, a community built around public toilets and a robot that steals your covers in the morning and poos all over the floor. Meanwhile we’ve made a few changes to Dezeen’s layout and navigation - take a …

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Balmond Studio, MAD and Universal Design Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Heatherwick Studio, Marcel Wanders and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Spanish designer Roger Arquer talks about the furniture he made for his daughter using wooden spoons, rolling pins and a pastry brush. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects mihadesign have completed a Tokyo house with sloping skylights, suspended lofts and a staircase that spirals around a wall. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Elle Decoration editor Michelle Ogundehin has declared British furniture brand Habitat “as good as dead” in an article on the magazine’s blog, stating “I give it two years max” – read the blog post Ogundehin says that the retailer, which closed all but three of its UK stores earlier this year, failed to react to competition within the market and “increasingly misunderstood ‘Lifestyle’,” its key selling point. She claims that Habitat has lost its original focus on innovation and simplicity, and rubbishes plans by current owners the Home Retail Group to sell Habitat products at Argos and Homebase outlets, adding that their one remaining interest is to “flog s…

Here are some images of an extremely pointy pavilion in Tianjin, China, by Singapore studio Ministry of Design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Rotterdam studio 2by4-architects designed this gabled summer house so the walls of one corner fold open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: the front section of this shelf by London design duo Raw Edges slides down to create a work surface. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: when Johanna Agerman-Ross from Disegno magazine came into Dezeen Studio in Milan, she spoke to us about the future of print magazines and current design trends. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in the first of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Products course Tord Boontje talks about selected projects including food containers made of radioactive soil and suits for living in someone else’s skin. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian studio 20.87 has used plastic panels and LED lighting to transform an old house in São Paulo into a giant lamp (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This wearable camera by London designers ChauhanStudio and Oxford technology business OMG Life uses sensors and GPS technology to decide which moments of your life are worth photographing. (more…) View the full article

Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article