Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather. More »

The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 97 winners of this year’s RIBA Awards, including projects by Tony Fretton, David Chipperfield, MVRDV and Zaha Hadid Architects. More »

Milan 2011: visitors to an installation by London designer Paul Cocksedge at the Milan showroom of lighting brand Flos could view an animation of a BMW 6 Series car only by putting their heads inside a plastic lamp shade. More »

Dezeen is one of many London design businesses supporting Love Japan – a design auction taking place at Clerkenwell Design Week next week to raise money for Shigeru Ban Architects’ evacuation centre project, which is helping people made homeless by the recent earthquake in Japan. More »

The Hepworth Wakefield gallery designed by David Chipperfield Architects opens to the public this Saturday. More »

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has added stacked layers of white marble to create a podium in this Romanesque church in France. More »

Japanese designers Nendo have produced these transparent sets of earphones that look like jellyfish.  More »

In this movie, filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan, Arjan van Raadshooven from Vij5 talks to Dezeen about Newspaper Wood, a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers. Watch the movie »

Dezeen is media partner with Clerkenwell Design Week, which takes place in London next week, and we’ll be presenting a pop-up Dezeen Watch Store at the Farmiloe Building on St John Street from 24 to 26 May. More »

Designer Dominic Wilcox has taken an abandoned office in a London building being demolished this week and painted the entire contents white. More »

This 16 storey tower in Barcelona completed by Spanish studio R+B Arqts contains 75 social housing units and has a facade of vertical panels and aluminium brise-soleil. More »

Based on a Japanese puzzle, the legs of this table by German design studio DING3000 knot together to create support for the blue glass tabletop. More »

Gerrman architects Kada Wittfeld Architektur have completed this metal-bodied museum in Glauburg, Germany, that cantilevers out towards a historic Celtic burial mound. More »

Korean designers Joon&Jung have hand-crafted this set of speakers by strapping punctuated ceramic cubes onto a stack of twigs. More »