Beijing Design Week: as a Chinese company announces plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in just seven months, Beijing Design Week creative director Aric Chen says that contemporary China should "slow down" and look to "craft thinking" to tackle both small and large-scale design challenges the country is facing. More about "China needs to slow down" - Beijing Design Week creative director Aric Chen
This week the UK government's new guidelines preventing any curved or glass walls on new schools in a bid to cut costs caused a furious reaction from our readers, who called the idea "idiotic", a "very false economy" and "an absolute insult to the architecture, design and construction industry." More about This week on Dezeen
This is the first track that Australian electronic musician Arms Were Youth has sent to Dezeen Music Project, and we certainly like what we hear. Sharply Towards Hell is a buzzing, bubbling mixture of different textures and sounds that's disorientating at first but soon makes sense once your ear starts to pick out the individual rhythms and melodies that make up the track.
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World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Wilkinson Eyre Architects' Paul Baker in this interview filmed just moments after the firm's Gardens by the Bay project in Singapore was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival today. More about Movie: Wilkinson Eyre Architects on winning World Building of the Year
World Architecture Festival 2012: the Kallang River Bishan Park in Singapore by landscape designers Atelier Dreiseitl has been given the title Landscape of the Year at the World Architecture Festival (+ slideshow). More about Landscape of the Year announced at World Architecture Festival
British designer Ross Lovegrove has installed a silver spaceship in the rafters of a railway station in Lille, France. More about UFO by Ross Lovegrove
World Architecture Festival 2012: Heart of Doha, a 31-hectare masterplan designed by AECOM for the gateway to Inner Doha has been named Future Project of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. More about Future Project of the Year winner announced at World Architecture Festival
News: a Chinese company plans to build the world's tallest skyscraper in just seven months using pre-fabricated components slotted together like a Meccano toy. More about World's tallest skyscraper to be built with ready-made 'Meccano' pieces
World Architecture Festival 2012: the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore has been awarded the World Building of the Year prize at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. More about World Building of the Year winner announced
London Design Festival: these clothes hangers by designer and recent graduate Lisa Marie Bengtsson use charcoal to soak up bad smells so clothes need washing less often (+ movie). More about Bye Bye Laundry by Lisa Marie Bengtsson
London Design Festival: this mechanical contraption by artist Martin Smith and his design company Laikingland will wake you up by chirping like a bird (+ movie). More about Bird Song with a Found Feather by Martin Smith/Laikingland