Vienna Design Week 2011: Vienna Design Week opens from Friday until 9 October. Here’s a trailer from the curators, featuring a dance performance involving one of the event’s signature painted chairs that will be stationed at event venues across the city. Watch the movie »

This shopping centre by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos is nearing completion in Huixquilucan, Mexico. More »

Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk claims that the most creative work on show during the recent London Design Festival was to be found in basement flats and disused offices - The Guardian

See more stories by Justin McGuirk here and all of our coverage on the London Design Festival here.

French architect Serge Salat has designed an infinite labyrinth of shapes and colours for a touring exhibition in China. More »

Dezeen Space: visitors to Dezeen Space today can stand on Dezeen Platform installation to create a soundscape by linking hands with others.  More »

Beijing Design Week 2011: a tricycle modified by Canadian artist Nicholas Hanna mimics the Chinese custom of writing temporary messages on the road with water. Update: watch a movie about the tricycle on Dezeen Screen. More »

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Japanese architects Maker have completed a Hiroshima restaurant where timber slats on the ceiling descend around the dining tables.  More »

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed a monastery built into the side of a hill at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. More »

London Design Festival 2011: divisive designs from the 1970s and 1980s are brought together in a retrospective exhibition entitled Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, which opened at the Victoria & Albert museum at the weekend. More »

Despite living in hilly San Francisco, designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has created a tricycle for local living. More »

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Spanish designer Roger Arquer talks about the furniture he made for his daughter using wooden spoons, rolling pins and a pastry brush. Watch the movie »

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reviews the latest building by Renzo Piano, a convent near to Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp - The Guardian

See more stories about Renzo Piano here and all of our stories on chapels and churches here.

Dezeen Space: up next at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space is University of Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson, with his fictional model of a home for early twentieth-century intellectual Walter Benjamin. More »