Natural light diffuses into this house in Yokohama, Japan, through a grid of arched skylights in the ceiling. More »

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. More »

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

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

Dezeen Platform: 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. 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 Platform: 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.