Milan 09: Dutch designer Sander Mulder presented a modular cabinet resembling shipping containers in Zona Tortona last month. More »

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Latvian architects Substance have built a sports hall in Jurmala, Latvia, inspired by chunks of amber washed up on the Baltic coast. More »

Architects Filipe Balestra and Sara Göransson have developed a strategy to develop informal slums into permanent urban districts through a process of gradual improvement to existing dwellings instead of demolition and rebuilding. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has designed the interiors of the Kameha Grand Bonn hotel, which opens this autumn in Bonn, Germany. More »

Dezeenwire: the winners of the National Design Awards 2009, organised by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum to honour the best American design, have been announced. National Design Awards 2009

Dezeenwire: Caroline Roux reviews the Milan furniture fair. Building Design

Milan 09: German furniture designer Nils Holger Moormann presented Easy Reader, a combined bookshelf and bench with a wheel, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month. More »

Milan 09: Swedish furniture brand IKEA showed in Milan for the first time this year, presenting their PS Collection by designers including Front and Hella Jongerius. Above: IKEA PS SÅGA by Nike Karlsson More »

In the first of four competitions this month to celebrate publisher Thames & Hudson‘s 60th anniversary, we’re giving away five copies of The Complete Zaha Hadid. More »

Milan 09: London furniture brand SCP exhibited work by designers including PearsonLloyd, Matthew Hilton (above) and Konstantin Grcic at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month. More »

Austrian architects PSA have completed an interior project for a law firm in Vienna. More »

Greek architecture practice KLab architects have completed a summer house on the island of Andros, Greece. More »

Milan 09: Italian design brand Magis launched Villa Julia, a cardboard playhouse for children by Spanish designer Javier Mariscal, in Milan last week. More »