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We’ve just sent the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions, jobs and highlights from Dezeenwire, Dezeen Screen and Dezeen Watch Store. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Dutch design organisation Premsela to offer readers a chance to win one of five copies of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house on S. Michael Island in the Azores by Portuguese architect Bernardo Rodrigues comprises a jumble of curved and rectilinear volumes, creating little sheltered patios in-between them. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: our next movie filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan features Tord Boontje, head of design products at the Royal College of Art, giving a tour of work in the college’s show Intent, including this bag-making machine by We Do Studio. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: garden trade show Spoga+Gafa invites young designers to enter their Garden Goes Balcony design competition for the chance to win a share of €12,500 and exhibit as part of Garden Unique, which takes place at Koelnmesse in Cologne from 4 to 6 September. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect David Adjaye has completed the renovation of this Art Deco building in London, providing six storeys of office accommodation. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Nick Fraser presents these faceted terracotta plant pots at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The roof of this house in Hashimoto, Japan, by designers Yoshio Oono Architect & Associates folds around to become an exterior canopy with triangular reveals. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up is now open as part of Clerkenwell Design Week in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The rounded wooden legs and tops of these stools by Norm Architects of Denmark are joined by brass or steel tubes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This group of schools outside Paris by French architects Dominique Coulon & Associés has walls, ceilings and details picked out in bright orange. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This architects’ desk designed by Note Design Studio of Stockholm has been covered inside and out with pine veneer in a herringbone pattern, then charred black on the outside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: almost a quarter of architects remain underemployed according to the the latest Future Trends Survey released by the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this is another movie filmed by Gwenael Lewis for Canadian lighting company Bocci, showing Canadian craftsmen blowing glass for the 28 Series chandelier designed by Omer Arbel. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This colourful series of public toilets recently completed by Japanese architects Future Studios in Hiroshima have been designed to resemble origami cranes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London have launched a competition to design new electricity pylons for the UK: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland, Marcel Wanders in the Netherlands and Levi Strauss in Belgium, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with designers Tom Dixon, Paul Cocksedge and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Tim Mackerodt of Germany will show this lamp and stool made of folded concrete at DMY International Design Festival in Berlin next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: fashion brand Issey Miyake have appointed Yoshiyuki Miyamae as designer of their womenswear collection, following the departure of creative director Dai Fujiwara in February (see our earlier Dezeen Wire). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This garden, filled with a maze of grey brick arches interspersed with willow trees, has been completed by Martha Schwartz Partners as part of the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo currently taking place in China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Archive: as the Training Dresser by Peter Bristol (top left) was one of our most debated recent stories, we have gathered all our stories from the Dezeen archives about children’s furniture. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This illuminated, webbed steel structure at the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo in China is the second project to be featured on Dezeen this week by London architects Plasma Studio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Archive: we’ve published a number of stories recently on projects in Shenzhen, including the series of movies we filmed at the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture Biennale. Here’s a roundup of all of the stories from the Dezeen archives. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amanda Levete Architects have sent us these images of their proposals for a new cultural centre in Lisbon with a roof that spirals around from the existing riverfront pathway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have designed this creative industries office block in Amsterdam that has letters of the alphabet cut out of the facade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article