Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ Future Trends Survey for September points to a drop in the number of architectural practices anticipating increased demand for their services. More »

Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China that’s covered in firewood. More »

Dezeen Wire: in his latest review for The Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore criticises Daniel Libeskind‘s angular five-storey extension to the Military History Museum in Dresden, stating that ”something so large and conspicuous should surely be more than a gesture.” More »

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at 54 Rivington Street, London, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs gives a tour of our activities at Dezeen Space. Watch the movie »

Architects mihadesign have completed a Tokyo house with sloping skylights, suspended lofts and a staircase that spirals around a wall. More »

Dutch Design Week 2011: best known for his grown-up furniture that would be quite at home in a fairy tale, Amsterdam designer Bo Reudler presents a collection of children’s furniture in Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week this week.  More »

Grey and white blinds create a chequerboard pattern against the facade of this Barcelona school by MMDM Arquitectes. More »

Dezeen Wire: the twelve winners of this year’s Dutch Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Eindoven this evening, including a robot that prints chairs from recycled refrigerators, street lamps with no poles and a bunker that’s been cut in half. More »

Due to the popularity of  Melvin, a machine we showed on Dezeen Screen that triggers a chain of strange events when an alarm sounds, this month’s top ten is all about machines.  More »

Customers can leave their children playing downstairs and dine beside a four metre-high model elephant at this Bucharest restaurant. More »

This time last year architects Planning Korea designed a futuristic media bridge that resembled a string of bubbles, while the Dutch Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo won the best project at the Dutch Design Awards 2010, despite one of our readers commenting that “the Netherlands is represented here like a crazy playground!” More »

Dezeen Wire: Swedish furniture retailer Ikea is to build an eco-housing development next to London’s Olympic park in Stratford. A spokesman for Ikea has claimed that the 1,200 home scheme featuring its own water power plant, school, health surgery and nursery will be “the newest and most interesting development in the whole area” - London Evening Standard

A Jewish purification ritual takes place in the pools of this Mexico City bathhouse. More »

Dezeen Wire: Design Matters, an online design talk show and podcast has won the People’s Design Award, voted for by the public and organised by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. More »