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Artist Alfio Bonanno and architect Christophe Cornubert will present an installation representing a metric ton of carbon dioxide in Copenhagen next month, while the city hosts the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). More »

Amsterdam designers Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers have won the Serve and Facilitate (Public) Great Indoors Award for their project University Library of the University of Amsterdam. More »

Help us choose the person most deserving of applause for their work in design in 2009 and you could win an Applause Machine worth £225! More »

Parisian art collective Fandango Projects have created an installation for surf brand Quiksilver that reconstructs teenagers’ bedrooms from different decades. More »

German-Japanese studio Minkus Architects Tokyo have renovated an apartment in Tokyo using curtains that make it look like a fabric play-house. More »

Dutch architects MVRDV and designer Richard Hutten have completed a research facility within a courtyard at the Delft University of Technology. More »

Here are some images of a fashion store in Belgrade, Serbia, designed by architect Irena Kilibarda of Dsigned By for fashion designer Tamara Radivojevic. More »

Cult Japanese car the Nissan Cube is due to launch in the UK in January 2009 2010. More »

Bulgarian studio Bozhinovskidesign have created a cantilevered desk suspended from the wall by steel cables. More »

Photographer Marco Zanta has sent us his photographs of an apartment designed by Italian architects MZC Architettura in Treviso, Italy. More »

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Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded at the Serpentine Gallery in London, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic talks about Design Real, an exhibition he curated that opened at the gallery this week. More »

Architectural photographer Stéphane Chalmeau has sent us his photos of a building covered in aluminium bars in Nantes, France, by French architects Tétrarc. More »

UK company Concrete Canvas have been awarded Material of the Year 2009 by materials consultancy Material ConneXion for their cement-impregnated fabric. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »