London Design Festival 2010: in anticipation of next month’s launch of www.dezeenwatchstore.com, we’re presenting two pop-up watch stores in London during the London Design Festival featuring products including the new navy Uniform Wares watch (above). More »

This auditorium enclosed by a red-lacquered shell is part of a new wing at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanei di Roma designed by French architect Odile Decq and due to open later this year. More »

Dezeen promotion: with the London Design Festival just around the corner, Dezeen have teamed up with new east London destination The Tramshed to provide a downloadable guide to the exhibition and talks programme. More »

A temporary restaurant created by Finnish designers and serving Finnish food opens today until 3 October in London, coinciding with the London Design Festival. More »

Dezeenwire: Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) have appointed Alexis Georgacopoulos as the college’s new director. See press release below (in French) More »

This house with checkered windows by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates sits on a street corner in downtown Tokyo. More »

Barcelona company Dream and Fly have sent us the latest renders of their miniature hotel rooms proposed for airports and train stations. More »

Blankets hang from wooden frames to represent a rural village in this installation at Helmrinderknecht gallery in Berlin by Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey. More »

Dezeen promotion: during the London Design Festival Italian design brand Skitsch host an installation by New York designer Harry Allen and a Dezeen Watch Store pop-up shop at their recently-opened showroom in west London. More »

This collection of necklaces and broaches by Swedish jewellery artist Hanna Hedman is currently on display at the Soda gallery in Istanbul. More »

Dezeenwire: London Design Festival director Ben Evans and Anti-Design Festival curator Neville Brody debate the state of British design in this movie by The Guardian

This house in Urayasu, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates has a timber-clad sloping overhang containing a private terrace. More »

Hong Kong department store Lane Crawford invited eight designers including Tom Dixon (above), Michael Young, Jaime Hayón and Ilse Crawford to revamp the Chinese ming-style chair for an exhibition currently on show at the ifc mall in Hong Kong. More »

London firm Duggan Morris Architects have completed this brick house on the site of a former plaster-moulding workshop between two rows of terraced houses in south-east London. More »