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We have extended the opening period of our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up at 55 Neal Street in London by an extra week, due to strong demand. The store will now remain open until Saturday 16 July. Full details of the store – described by the Evening Standard as “beautifully designed” – can be found in our earlier story. </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

Dezeen Screen: this next movie in our series filmed at the London Design Festival 2010 features curator Max Fraser talking about Lab Craft, an exhibition of work that marries craftsmanship with digital technology. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The top floor of this office block in Italy by architects Modostudio is screened by faceted concrete panels that resemble Inca stonework. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This concept car by Los Angeles architects Emergent is made of cartilage and makes its own fuel from algae. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Swedish textile designer Fanny Aronsen has died from cancer aged 55. More details to follow. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

OMA have won a competition to design a gateway building for Toulouse, France, with a 40,000 square metre column-free exhibition hall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects MX_SI have won a competition to design an extension to a Finnish museum of art with this proposal that features recessed zigzagging windows. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: while Dezeen prepares for the 2011 London Design Festival, here’s a previously unseen interview we filmed with Spanish designer Jaime Hayón during last year’s festival. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: to continue our series of graduate projects from the Royal College of Art, here’s a stool by Jack Smith that collapses when its seat is lifted. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors can climb a staircase over the roof of this spiralling community centre in Lille by French architects Colboc Franzen & Associés. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Unable to prevent revellers urinating against their trees, Roskilde Festival in Denmark installed tree-mounted urinals by Dutch designers Aandeboom. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Danish designer Jens Martin Skibsted talks about his bicycle brand Biomega and the future of urban cycling in this previously unseen video filmed by Dezeen during the London Design Festival 2010. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduates Attua Aparicio and Oscar Wanless have invented a new manufacturing process that involves steaming polystyrene beads inside fabric moulds. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architects Carmody Groarke have completed this granite monolith outside London’s Natural History Museum to commemorate victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the 202 Series of watches by Uniform Wares is available in new colours at Dezeen Watch Store, both online and in our Seven Dials pop-up at 55 Neal Street, London WC2 9PJ until 10 July. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Ariane Prin uses waste from college workshops as the raw material for her on-site pencil factory (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with designers Cibicworkshop to give away five construction games based on iconic buildings by renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: The New York Times is set to name its art critic and columnist Michael Kimmelman as its new architecture critic, following the departure last month of Nicolai Ouroussoff – Chicago Tribune. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more photographs of Peter Zumthor’s recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, taken by UK photographers Hufton + Crow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Non-profit organisation Assemble have constructed a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Criss-crossing lengths of aluminium cover the glass facade of this Barcelona skyscraper by Spanish architects EMBA. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This 28 metre-high steel sculpture of the Jaguar E-Type car was designed by Gerry Judah for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in Sussex, UK, last weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out all our stories about this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show, including a 3D-printer that uses sunlight to make sand into glass objects, clothes that feed information to smart phones and spectacle frames made of hair. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits – Management Today See the full list of products on the Guardian Datablog » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article