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Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Philippe Starck, Aldo Spinelli and Carlo Colombo (above) are among the latest designers to create pieces for Riva 1920 made of reclaimed oak mooring posts from the Venetian lagoon. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design student Lorenzo Spreafico has invented a prosthetic arm that could bring tactile feedback to people who can't currently afford it. Read more View the full article

This office for a law firm in Ragusa, Italy, by Chiavola + Sanfilippo Architetti has a translucent faceted wall framing the waiting room. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Patrick de Glo de Besses of Paris has inserted a series of branched arms into this bottle-shaped base to create a candelabra. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled their design for the largest cultural building in China, to be located in Chengdu in the Sichuan Province. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Michigan studios Rootoftwo and PLY Architecture have housed their conceptual models of future kitchen appliances in a paper teahouse at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Charlotte Kingsnorth will present a collection of fat chairs at Designersblock in London next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Mas-aqui has renovated a 20th-century apartment in the mountains above Barcelona, creating a light-filled home. Read more View the full article

Here are some more photographs of Jean Nouvel’s recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London, this time taken by French photographer Julien Lanoo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Floor-to-ceiling curtains carve up the interior of this open-plan apartment in Bilbao, Spain, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Azab. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects Geneto used screens decorated with grooves to divide this Tokyo apartment. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Phil Cuttance created this range of vases by welding together discarded plastic offcuts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This year's London Design Festival will go ahead as scheduled in September, but with a more local focus and greater online activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more View the full article

British studio Fletcher Crane Architects have won a competition to design a waterside office building on the river Aire in Leeds, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni speaks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his career and his designs for B&B Italia in this talk hosted with the Italian furniture brand. Watch the talk live from 11am New York time. Read more

This is timely, given the UK public sector workers’ strike today: London-based designer Eldina Begic has unveiled a collection of women’s clothes inspired by socialist workwear. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This proposal by Amsterdam architects RAU and design agency Powerhouse Company is one of three projects vying to win a competition to design a dance and music centre for The Hague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The first-ever building to have a carbon fibre structure is a mobile studio-cum-stage by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow, which just opened in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian architects EM2 have converted a castle into a mountain museum. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The interior for this clothing boutique in Japan designed by Kazutoyo Yamamoto of Japanese Studio Dessence is filled with stone partitions that have arched doorway openings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This cantilevered wooden house by Japanese studio UID Architects hovers ten metres above the forest floor and has a hole underneath to let trees grow up inside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This house in Fukuoka, Japan, by Masao Yahagi Architects snakes across its site to give every room a little sheltered garden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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Slideshow: Danish architects 3XN have completed a riverside cultural centre in Norway with glass hills outlined on its facade. (more…) View the full article

Today we’re launching a Twitter concierge service to help readers navigate the London Design Festival. If you’re looking for tips or directions, we’ll be on hand to help you out via our @dezeen Twitter account. Later today we’ll be tweeting details of two parties our readers are invited to, so start following us now! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article