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Japanese designers Torafu Architects have designed a set of paper hooks that like curled pieces of adhesive tape. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects Mecanoo have won a competition to design a cultural centre in Shenzhen with this design composed of a row of overhanging red volumes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this movie we filmed in Milan last month, the Royal College of Art‘s head of design products Tord Boontje talks about the exhibition of student work presented at Ventura Lambrate and describes the themes and trends occupying young designers today. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pavilion by London architects Plasma Studio is located at the heart of the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo, which is currently taking place in China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio 42 architects have created an installation of spiralling black tubes for UK fashion retailer Topshop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 97 winners of this year’s RIBA Awards, including projects by Tony Fretton, David Chipperfield, MVRDV and Zaha Hadid Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: visitors to an installation by London designer Paul Cocksedge at the Milan showroom of lighting brand Flos could view an animation of a BMW 6 Series car only by putting their heads inside a plastic lamp shade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is one of many London design businesses supporting Love Japan – a design auction taking place at Clerkenwell Design Week next week to raise money for Shigeru Ban Architects’ evacuation centre project, which is helping people made homeless by the recent earthquake in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Hepworth Wakefield gallery designed by David Chipperfield Architects opens to the public this Saturday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has added stacked layers of white marble to create a podium in this Romanesque church in France. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have produced these transparent sets of earphones that look like jellyfish. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie, filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan, Arjan van Raadshooven from Vij5 talks to Dezeen about Newspaper Wood, a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is media partner with Clerkenwell Design Week, which takes place in London next week, and we’ll be presenting a pop-up Dezeen Watch Store at the Farmiloe Building on St John Street from 24 to 26 May. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Dominic Wilcox has taken an abandoned office in a London building being demolished this week and painted the entire contents white. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This 16 storey tower in Barcelona completed by Spanish studio R+B Arqts contains 75 social housing units and has a facade of vertical panels and aluminium brise-soleil. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Based on a Japanese puzzle, the legs of this table by German design studio DING3000 knot together to create support for the blue glass tabletop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gerrman architects Kada Wittfeld Architektur have completed this metal-bodied museum in Glauburg, Germany, that cantilevers out towards a historic Celtic burial mound. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Korean designers Joon&Jung have hand-crafted this set of speakers by strapping punctuated ceramic cubes onto a stack of twigs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studios Xpiral and MTM Arquitectos have completed a public square sheltered by steel trees that hold nets of boulders. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: As part of our movie series filmed at at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month, designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe talk about the M-Collection, a furniture range they have designed for the Frits Philips Concert Hall (see our earlier story on Dezeen). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The drawers of this children’s dresser designed by Seattle product designer Peter Bristol are shaped to match their contents. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Wooden horses wearing ties, hats, scarves and shoes from the new Hermès collection are included in a set of interiors by Spanish designers CuldeSac. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Fukuyama, completed by Japanese studio UID Architects, is composed of four separate blocks clad in black-stained cedar. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Ora-Ïto has designed a spaceship and a sedan chair for car manufacturer Citroën. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article