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Swedish designers Whatswhat Collective have designed a pleated lamp shade that changes shape when its drawstrings are pulled. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the 50th issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Gitta Gschwendtner presented a kitchen island comprising a pile of drawers and a sink at the Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition in Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We still have some T-shirts left from our DezeenBarBasso party in Milan last month, and we’re giving them away to 10 lucky readers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Kram/Weisshaar are to install a robotic “octopus” in Trafalgar Square during the London Design Festival in September. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Gerard van Beek has sent us some images of a college in Bolsward, Netherlands, designed by dutch studio Wind Architecten Adviseurs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio Tulp Design have created a company canteen in Munich designed to make workers feel like they’re dining under water. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another triangulated outcrop: Technische Universität Dresden students Philip Modest Schambelan and Anton Fromm have designed a hotel for mountain bikers for the edge of a cliff in Pregasina, Italy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German design student Nicole Losos has created a concept for a triangulated wall-mounted structure that you can sit, sleep, read, eat and keep things on. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of work by designers including Oskar Zieta (above), the Campana brothers, and Michele De Lucchi opens at New York gallery Moss next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with publisher Laurence King to give away five copies of 1000 New Designs 2 by Jeniffer Hudson. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buenos Aires architects Estudio BaBO have completed an extension to a townhouse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where a modern rectangular structure sits on top of the original early twentieth-century building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have announced Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Foster + Partners and Snøhetta as the finalists in a competition to design an expansion to the museum - SFMoMA </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Centre Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban and French architect Jean de Gastines opens today in Lorraine, France - Guardian More information about the building in our earlier story. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some images of an extension to a school in Cuenca, Spain designed by Madrid studio GRG Arquitectos. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American design studio Volido have designed a sofa lined with pyramid-shaped sound-proofing foam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Daniel Widrig has created a wooden chair with three legs that morph into armrests and a back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos from an exhibition of work by over 70 designers including Studio Job, Nacho Carbonell and BCXSY, on show at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo, directed by Li Edelkoort. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French studio N+B Architectes have completed a car park with a wooden latticed exterior and surrounding landscape in Carros, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

South Korean product designer Ramei Keum has designed a leaning sofa called Pisa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco studio CCS Architecture have completed a house comprising two buildings in the Santa Cruz mountains of California, where the roof of one extends over the other. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An extension to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by London architect Rick Mather has opened to the public in Richmond, Virginia, USA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Korean designer Hyung Suk Cho has designed a chair made of two curved wooden shells joined together with circular studs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More from plusminuszero: the Japanese design company also launched this credit card-sized calculator in Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In Milan last month Japanese brand plusminuszero launched a watch where the strap slots through the back of the case. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article