Dezeen and architecture and design book publisher Birkhäuser are offering readers the chance to win  one of five copies of Chroma – Design, Architecture and Art in Colour by Barbara Glasner & Petra Schmidt. More »

Architectural photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photographs of four houses by French practice TANK Architectes in Villeneuve d’Ascq near Lille, France. More »

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Dezeen podcast: in this podcast for the Design Museum in London architect David Chipperfield talks about an exhibition of his work, which opened at the museum this week. More »

Architect Corvin Cristian has designed an office interior inside the former Romanian stock exchange building  in Bucharest, Romania. More »

Polish Design Season: designer Agnieszka Bar has created a range of bottles with collapsed bases. More »

Dutch Design Week: Austrian masters graduate Sonja Bäumel presents a body of work at Design Academy Eindhoven’s Graduation Galleries exhibition this week, exploring how bacteria on human skin could be harnessed to create clothing that reacts to the environment. More »

In this the final interview in our series of Molteni&C Sofa Chats conducted at 100% Design in London last month, British architect and designer Nigel Coates talks with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how design became an intrinsic part of Italian culture. More »

Swedish designers TAF have designed a dining table for Scandinavian design brand Muuto. More »

Polish Design Season: Ryszard Rychlick, a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, has designed a felt bag. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: Italian design graduates Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma present a series of baked objects at an exhibition in Eindhoven this week. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have unveiled their design for a performing arts centre in Aalborg, Denmark. More »

In this next interview in our series of Molteni&C Sofa Chats conducted at 100% Design in London last month, London-based designer Ilse Crawford discusses the unique skills of Italian manufacturers with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. More »

Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design a new city hall for Rotterdam in the Netherlands. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: Amsterdam designer Heleen Klopper has been awarded the €5,000 “incentive prize” at Doen Materiaalprijs 2009 for her system for mending holes in woolen fabric. More »