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Design flash-sales site Bamarang closes down

Dezeen Wire: a European copycat version of American design flash-sales site Fab, called Bamarang, has been dropped by its founders Rocket Internet - Bloomberg Businessweek

Fab responded to the launch of Bamarang in January by taking over another European clone, Casacanda, and using it to launch in eighteen EU countries since mid February. Yesterday the company announced a take-over of UK rival llustre.com, now Fab UK.

Call for entries to the Furniture Design Award and Furniture Design Platform 2013

Dezeen promotion: entries are now being accepted for the Furniture Design Award and Furniture Design Platform 2013 organised by the Singapore Furniture Industries Council. More about Call for entries to the Furniture Design Award and Furniture Design Platform 2013

Günther Domenig (1934-2012)

Dezeen Wire: Austrian architect Günther Domenig, one of the founding partners of Graz studio Domenig & Wallner, has passed away at the age of 77.

He most famously designed the Z-bank in Vienna, as well as his own house at Lake Ossiach. More about Günther Domenig (1934-2012)

As If From Nowhere by Orla Reynolds

Brightly coloured tables and chairs are hidden in plain sight between the shelves of this bookcase by graduate designer Orla Reynolds. More about As If From Nowhere by Orla Reynolds

Hallo Light by 45 Kilo

This wall-mounted task lamp by German studio 45 Kilo is adjusted simply by sliding a leather loop along the arm that supports its shade. More about Hallo Light by 45 Kilo

Addis Ababa Stadium and Sports Village by LAVA

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design a sports complex in Ethiopia, which will include an excavated football stadium surrounded by earth stands. More about Addis Ababa Stadium and Sports Village by LAVA

llustre.com becomes Fab UK

Dezeen Wire: just two months after launch, flash-sales site llustre.com has been taken over by American rival Fab to become Fab UK. More about llustre.com becomes Fab UK

Gardens by the Bay by Grant Associates and Wilkinson Eyre Architects

British architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates have completed an enormous tropical garden in Singapore filled with tree-like towers, shell-shaped greenhouses and a 30-metre-high man-made waterfall (+ slideshow). More about Gardens by the Bay by Grant Associates and Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Blooms: Luxury in the Face of Adversity by Chan Min Yun

Singapore design student Chan Min Yun has packaged doses of medicine in little origami parcels that open like flowers when placed into water (+ movie). More about Blooms: Luxury in the Face of Adversity by Chan Min Yun

Suna Broom by Joseph Guerra

Resting a broom on its bristles can cause them to splay outwards and become permanently deformed so graduate designer Joseph Guerra has made one with a pivoting head. More about Suna Broom by Joseph Guerra