Dezeenwire: Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) have appointed Alexis Georgacopoulos as the college's new director. See press release below (in French) More about Alexis Georgacopoulos appointed new director of ECAL
This house with checkered windows by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates sits on a street corner in downtown Tokyo. More about Damier by Apollo Architects & Associates
Barcelona company Dream and Fly have sent us the latest renders of their miniature hotel rooms proposed for airports and train stations. More about Bubbles by Dream and Fly
Blankets hang from wooden frames to represent a rural village in this installation at Helmrinderknecht gallery in Berlin by Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey. More about WashHouse by Studio Makkink & Bey
Dezeen promotion: during the London Design Festival Italian design brand Skitsch host an installation by New York designer Harry Allen and a Dezeen Watch Store pop-up shop at their recently-opened showroom in west London. More about Skitsch at London Design Festival
This collection of necklaces and brooches by Swedish jewellery artist Hanna Hedman is currently on display at the Soda gallery in Istanbul. More about Escape by Hanna Hedman
Dezeenwire: London Design Festival director Ben Evans and Anti-Design Festival curator Neville Brody debate the state of British design in this movie by The Guardian
This house in Urayasu, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates has a timber-clad sloping overhang containing a private terrace. More about Flow by Apollo Architects & Associates
Hong Kong department store Lane Crawford invited eight designers including Tom Dixon (above), Michael Young, Jaime Hayón and Ilse Crawford to revamp the Chinese ming-style chair for an exhibition currently on show at the ifc mall in Hong Kong. More about Dynasty Revival by Lane Crawford
London firm Duggan Morris Architects have completed this brick house on the site of a former plaster-moulding workshop between two rows of terraced houses in south-east London. More about King’s Grove by Duggan Morris Architects
Italian designer Mario Trimarchi of Fragile has created this range of glass vases suspended in wire frames for Italian design brand Alessi. More about Intanto by Mario Trimarchi for Alessi
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen are proud to be media partners of The Tramshed, a new east London destination open 22-26 September during the London Design Festival. More about The Tramshed at London Design Festival
Dezeenwire: California architects Pugh + Scarpa have announced that the firm is to split - Architechnophilia
Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn's roundup of design festivals around the globe this autumn - The New York Times
Dezeenwire: Rowan Moore on what's wrong with British architecture - Observer
Foreign Office Architects has completed the new tile-covered campus for Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, located on the Greenwich Peninsula in London. More about Ravensbourne College by Foreign Office Architects
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials. More about San Blas, Usera and Villaverde by Estudio Entresitio
Dezeen archive: Readers went crazy for the staircase cantilevered over a shallow first-floor pool in our most popular story this week, a Japanese house by NRM-Architects Office, so we're treating you to a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives that feature spectacular staircases. See all the stories »
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This house on the outskirts of Ise, Japan is by architects EASTERN design office and has been raised on a concrete block to afford views of the sea. More about A House Awaiting Death by EASTERN Design Office
This bench made of three pop-riveted aluminium sheets is by Swedish designers TAF and one of ten benches to be exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival this month. More about Pop Rivet by TAF at Bench 10