Dezeen movie: this film we made in Milan last month features designers Tom Dixon, Front and 5.5 Designers talking about the pieces they designed for Veuve Clicquot‘s Out of the Box exhibition. More »

Berlin architects Ralf Fleckenstein and Katharina Feldhusen of FF Architekten in collaboration with Martina Wronna have completed a new public library in Luckenwalde, Germany. More »

The Yas Hotel by Asymptote architects is nearing completion in Abu Dhabi, UAE. More »

Milan 09: German designer Stefan Diez launched Houdini, a plywood chair for German brand e15 in Milan last month. More »

Dezeenwire: The World Intellectual Property Organization has rejected a bid by Jonathan Ive, Apple’s vice president of industrial design, to prevent a London fan exploiting jonathanive.com, jonyive.com and other domain names. Bloomberg

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has produced a series of objects using chicle, a natural latex from the Yucatán Peninsula similar to chewing gum. More »

Milan 09: an installation by Italian designer Fabio Novembre, containing a retrospective of his furniture designs plus two new pieces, is on show at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. More »

Dezeenwire: The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reviews Prince Charles’ speech at the RIBA last night. The Guardian

Milan 09: German lighting designer Ingo Maurer launched Euro Condom, a protest against new European guidelines banning frosted incandescent bulbs, at the Euroluce lighting fair in Milan last month. More »

Interior designers Universal Design Studio have completed a ‘pop-up’ store in Melbourne for Australian menswear designer James Cameron. More »

Dutch architects Mecanoo have unveiled their masterplan for a new business centre in the Longgang district of Shenzhen, China. More »

Dezeenwire: Bloomberg reports Prince Charles’ speech at the RIBA in London tonight, quoting: “In the world as it is now, there seems to be an awful lot more arrogance than reverence… a great deal more of the ego than humility, and a surfeit of abstracted ideology over the practical realities linked to people’s lives and the grain of their culture and identity.” Bloomberg.com

Milan 09: French designers iBride presented a writing desk in the form of a life-sized mule at Zona Tortona in Milan last month. More »

Milan 09: Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans launched a range of cabinets comprising antique items of furniture mounted inside rough wooden crates. More »