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Here are some decent-sized renderings of Metal Shutter Houses, a residential development in West Chelsea, New York designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. More »

Jaime Hayon has sent through photos and development sketches of La Terraza del Casino, the Madrid restaurant run by star chef Paco Roncero that has just reopened with interiors remodelled by the Spanish designer. More »

A team of four architectural practices (Modostudio, Adhoc, Barbarela and Bestbefore) have won an international competition to design the Ciudad del Medio Ambiente - or Environment City - in Santomera in the Spanish province of Murcia. More »

More from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show: Greetje van Tiem, a graduate from the academy’s Man and Leisure department, presents a project that turns old newspapers into yarn that can be woven into carpets, curtains and upholstery. More »

Here’s a second selection from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show, which opened yesterday (Saturday) during Dutch Design Week. More »

We’re in Eindhoven for Dutch Design Week, the highlight of which is the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show, which opened today (Saturday). More »

British furniture brand Established & Sons launched their new London gallery with an exhibition of one-off pieces earlier this month. More »

Ørestad College is a new educational building in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by 3XN architects. More »

This is a bit old, but who cares. The second project in our series from Dutch design studio Tjep is this Italian restaurant in Rotterdam called Fabbrica. More »

Architect Jean Nouvel has restarted work on The Landmark, a large mixed-use development in central Beirut, Lebanon. More »

Dutch design studio Tjep has sent us details of a whole bunch of projects, which we’ll be posting over the next few days, starting with this bottle for mineral water brand Waater. More »

Photographer Luke Hayes has sent us a few photos of the new Matthew Williamson exhibition at the Design Museum in London. More »

Slovenian architects Ofis have completed Tetris Apartments, a social housing development in Ljubljana. More »

Zaha Hadid Architects have formally launched the masterplan for Zorrozaurre, a 60 hectare peninsula in the Nervión river in the former port area of Bilbao, Spain. More »

David Chipperfield Architects have presented new designs for Turner Contemporary, an arts building proposed for the seafront at Margate, England. More »

Photographer Ed Reeve has sent us a set of photos he took of the house that architect David Adjaye designed for him in London. More »

Furniture brand Moroso has posted some photos of the Tokujin Yoshioka installation at their store on Greene Street in New York (via dezain.net). More »

Here are some spreads and the cover (below) from Japanese designer Kenya Hara’s latest book, Designing Design. More »

Self-proclaimed “visionary designer” Jerome Olivet has released a new collection of bags in fabric and PVC. More »

Moritz Waldemeyer has sent us some photos he took at Hussein Chalayan’s recent catwalk show in Paris, where the fashion designer showed dresses impregnated with servo-driven lasers that were engineered and programmed by Waldemeyer. More »