Dezeen’s pop-up retail concept The Temporium guest-curates a collection of homeware for flash-sales site llustre this week, including The Masquerade Bud Vases by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon (above). Go to The Temporium on llustre.com »
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Today on Dezeen Music Project we're bringing you the sounds of Jamaica, via Germany, with this dub reggae track by Berlin-based artist Dubble Dubble.
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Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. More about Marina Abramović Institute by OMA
The first product from new erotic brand United Indecent Pleasures is an eight-inch chocolate penis that oozes fondant cream. More about 8 Inches of Dark Chocolate Cock Filled With... by United Indecent Pleasures
This Tokyo house by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has hardly any walls and looks like scaffolding (photos by Iwan Baan). More about House NA by Sou Fujimoto Architects
The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for this summer's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: they'll conduct an archaeological dig to find traces of past pavilions on the site then line the resulting trenches with cork. More about Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
Slideshow: American architect David Jameson has completed a two-storey house in Bethesda, Maryland, with white walls that look like pixellated blocks. More about NaCl by David Jameson
Designed in Hackney: furniture company SCP has been working with some of the best designers in the industry at its Shoreditch headquarters since the mid 1980s. Every day this week our Designed in Hackney series focusses on key products that were developed above the shop on Curtain Road, starting with the 1986 Side Table by Jasper Morrison. More about Designed in Hackney: Side Table by Jasper Morrison for SCP
Slideshow: Spanish architects Miquel Mariné Núñez and César Rueda Boné have transformed an abandoned market hall in Aragon into a children's centre with a slide connecting its floors. More about Centro Infantil del Mercado by Miquel Mariné Núñez and César Rueda Boné
Slideshow: this wooden cabin in Iceland by Reykjavik studio Arkís is split into asymmetric apartments with roofs that slope in alternate directions. More about Villa Lola by Arkís
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen is one of the top five design sites in the world, according to business magazine Forbes.com. More about The Top Five Sites for Keeping Up With Creativity and Design - Forbes.com
Slideshow feature: this week we've published three more of the wooden cabin-like artists' studios that Saunders Architecture of Norway have designed for the picturesque Fogo Island in Canada, so here's a slideshow rounding up all four completed so far (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg). More about Slideshow feature: Fogo Island Artists' Studios by Saunders Architecture
Dezeen archive: yesterday we featured a music school covered in oriented strand board (OSB) with furniture to match, so here are lots more projects from the Dezeen archives that use the same rough, timber-strand material.
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Dezeen reader Trevor Cook asked us to make a Pinterest board compiling chairs from the pages of Dezeen. So here it is.
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Five years ago this week, the building boom in the United Arab Emirates was in full swing, with architects Foster + Partners, OMA and Jean Nouvel unveiling mind-boggling projects. More about Five years ago...
The two rehearsal rooms of this Brazilian music school are covered with chalkboards on the outside and oriented strand board on the inside. More about Eclética Centro De Música by 0E1 Arquitetos
Milan 2012: these stacking metal chairs were created by French architect Jean Nouvel for the restaurant of the RBC Design Centre that his studio have designed in Montpellier, due to open next month, and they're now in production with Italian brand Emu. More about MIA by Jean Nouvel for Emu
This time last year MVRDV architect Winy Maas was awarded the highest decoration of honour in France, UNStudio opened a pavilion in New York's Battery Park and we revealed what it looks like inside Skype's Stockholm offices. More about One year ago...
Movie: in this interview filmed at the Italian Cultural Institute in London yesterday, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks to architect David Chipperfield, director of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Interview: David Chipperfield on curatingthe Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
This week Google opened a campus for startups in east London, Yves Bahar launched a bigger and louder version of his Jambox wireless speaker and BIG unveiled designs for a tower block shaped like a hashtag. More about This week on Dezeen