New Zealand architects Gascoigne Associates have completed this Japanese restaurant lined with wooden slats in Auckland, New Zealand. More »

Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey reports growing confidence among UK architects. More »

The fifth in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents features designer German designer Stefan Diez talking about factories, working conditions, mittens for motorcycles and sex tourism.
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Designer David Taylor of Stockholm has created a series of candle holders made from layers of silver, steel and beech for Stockholm craft collective Konsthantverkarna. More »

Russian architects Arch-group and French studio Sade Sarl last week won an international competition to design a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris.  More »

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to masterplan a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two motorways.  More »

British architect John Pawson has designed images of ribbons to show support for Japan that can be downloaded in exchange for a donation to disaster relief following the earthquake and tsunami earlier this month. More »

French designer Matali Crasset has designed these jewellery pieces featuring tiny figures scuba diving, flying off with a jewel and perched on a unicycle. More »

London designer Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges is next up in our series of movies from Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents filmed at imm cologne earlier this year. More »

Japanese interior designer Yukio Kimura has created this combined cafe, gallery and second-hand book shop in Osaka, Japan. More »

Milan 2011: Dezeen, Jawbone and industrial designer Yves Behar have teamed up to invite readers to create tracks for an audio installation at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next month. More »

Here's another apartment renovation in Barcelona by Spanish studio Arquitectura-G (see their El Born apartment in our earlier story). More »

In this movie recorded at Somerset House in London author Max Fraser talks about his Joy of Living project, where designers including John Pawson, Michael Wolfson and Brodie Neill donated artworks based on graph paper to raise money for a cancer charity.  More »