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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

Hungarian studio Budapesti Műhely has restored the interior of one of Budapest’s oldest bathhouses by replacing the vaulted walls of the warm water hall and shower room, leaving the bubble-shaped backs exposed (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: as the UK government reviews design technology’s status as a compulsory school subject, industrial designers Seymourpowell have released a movie featuring Paul Smith, James Dyson and others talking about the importance of design education. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Suzanne O'Connell of Hackney studio The Decorators introduces a temporary restaurant in a local market and a community event on top of a multi-storey car park in this movie filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn on the addition of 23 digital typefaces to MoMA‘s architecture and design collection, which until recently only included Helvetica – New York Times </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In a colourful overhaul of this period house in Tooting, south London, 2LG Studio has added dusky pink walls, blue tilework and coral-orange cabinetry. Read more View the full article

Hamburg designer Alexa Lixfeld has sent us new pictures of her Metamorphose collection, including a series of silver cutlery comprising spoons, forks and ambiguous shapes in between. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

With child-obesity rates rising, graduate designer Katrina Steven has developed kitchenware that gets kids safely involved in the food preparation process and teaches them about the size of portions. Read more View the full article

London print designers Eley Kishimoto teamed up with Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir for DesignMarch in Reykjavík last week, where they presented a seal-shaped blanket inspired by an Icelandic folk tale. (more...) View the full article

Interview: Hélène Binet is one of the world's leading architectural photographers, but after 25 years in the industry, she still refuses to shoot in digital. With an exhibition of her work now open in LA, Dezeen spoke to the photographer about her devotion to film and why drone-mounted cameras are "a bit of a shock". (more…)

Manchester designer Liam Hopkins of Lazerian used waste cardboard from media company Bloomberg to construct a meeting area inside their London headquarters. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of Viamala Raststätte Thusis, an alpine service station designed by young Swiss studio Iseppi/Kurath. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Paul Smith has reworked a coffee pot by late Danish designer Arne Jacobsen to mark the 50th anniversary of Danish brand Stelton. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French studio Topos Architects have completed a nursery in Nantes where the gabled ends are clad in red polycarbonate, engraved with floral patterns. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss designer Adrien Rovero has created a sofa that can be transformed into a bed by re-arranging blocks of upholstery. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year our most popular story featured electricity pylons shaped like giants striding across the Icelandic landscape. The Mayor of London published a guide containing 90 standards for new housing in London as Rotterdam trends agency Arch-Vision predicted an increase in prefabricated buildings. Other popular stories included a periscope-shaped camera, hard drives that look like cassette tapes and a house on stilts in Ibiza with a jumble of cascading terraces. Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy shared his imaginative short film about an autonomous, artificially intelligent city while six artists unveiled even stranger proposal…

German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten have completed an art museum in Nanjing, China, with a series of narrow rectangular slits across the facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto of Portugal have designed and built a temporary bar made of 420 IKEA storage boxes for a competition organised by the architecture faculty at the Universidade do Porto in Portugal. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architect Miguel Barahona overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian architects Metro have completed a red glass chocolate museum in the sky. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Jorre van Ast of London has designed a dish drainer based on geographical contour lines for Royal VKB. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are the latest images of UK architects drdh’s design for a new cultural quarter in Bodø, Norway comprising a library and culture house. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argentinian studio Andrés Remy Arquitectos have completed a house in Pilar, Buenos Aires, consisting of volumes stacked at sloping angles. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Huibert van Muilwijk has designed a chair made out of lolly stick-shaped plywood components for Dutch studio Made by Midas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Copenhagen industrial design trio KiBiSi have produced a moulded plywood chair for the Danish Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 this summer (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article