David Chipperfield Architects have won a competition to design a museum of fine arts in the city of Reims, France with proposals for a building clad in translucent white marble and glass. More about Musée des Beaux-arts in Reims by David Chipperfield Architects
Designed in Hackney: Hackney designer Gitta Gschwendtner is best known for her anthropomorphic furniture and lamps, and this movie by Justin Anderson brings them to life in a surreal living room setting. More about Designed in Hackney: Living Room by Gitta Gschwendtner
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of design from Britain curated by London collective Bricolage Project (above) opens at the Centre Commercial in Paris on Friday. More about Bricolage and Friends
Construction has begun on the new OMA-designed headquarters for fashion brand G-Star RAW in Amsterdam, which will feature a facade that slides open. More about G-Star RAW Headquarters by OMA
Dezeen Wire: Dutch architecture and design publishers NAi Publishers and 010 are to merge and will be known as nai010 publishers from 1 July . More details on the NAi website.
Related: last month venerable Swiss architectural publisher Birkhäuser went into administration.
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These carafes by Zurich designer Anna Blattert of Swiss collective Postfossil incorporate little baskets to hold fresh ingredients like lemon or mint for making flavoured tap water. More about Stir It by Anna Blattert for Postfossil
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: last week the Dezeen team were at Clerkenwell Design Week in London, where highlights included an archway clad in wooden hexagons, a tiny mobile theatre and a basket-making machine that stops working when nobody’s looking, as well as our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up. Here's a slideshow capturing these projects and a few more of the best bits. More about Slideshow feature: Clerkenwell Design Week 2012
Slideshow: Huge glowing baskets surround the staircases of this former slaughterhouse in Madrid that Spanish architects Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo have converted into a cinema. More about Cineteca Matadero by Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo
Following the popularity of the bookcase without shelves that we published earlier this week (above, top right) here's a roundup of the ten most-clicked stories from Dezeen featuring more clever ways to display your reading material. More about Dezeen's top ten: bookcases
Five years ago this week Dezeen was in Dubai, reporting on the jaw-dropping architectural projects being proposed for the Gulf states including a raised city in the shape of a cloud, an inhabited mountain-top dam and a convention centre that resembles the Death Star. More about Five years ago...
This time last year Dezeen focussed on car design, filming a movie about the Jaguar C-X75 electric concept car, boosted by jet engines, and rounding up our top ten cars of all time from the pages of Dezeen. More about One year ago...
Atelier Van Lieshout arranged its new furniture pieces for Dutch company Lensvelt around an enormous blue cannon at Ventura Lambrate last month. More about WWIII by Atelier Van Lieshout for Lensvelt
This week we've created a Pinterest board with all the best images of lamps from Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest »
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Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that's specifically designed not to be accurate. More about Just About Now by Maarten Baas with Laikingland
Designed in Hackney: Banksy is now the world's best known graffiti artist but he became famous for his work in Hackney and we've created a map to chart the locations of his stencil work in the borough. More about Designed in Hackney: Banksy
The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was overshadowed this week by news that one designer had been arrested while installing his project in the city and accused of "planting false bombs", which our readers labelled a "titanic over-reaction" and indicative of the "hysteria and squareness of NY authorities". More about This week on Dezeen
Kanye West's first short film was shown on seven cinema screens surrounding the audience inside a pyramid designed by architects OMA at the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. More about Seven-screen pavilion by OMA for Kanye West
Slideshow: Japanese studios Snark and Ouvi have completed two apartment blocks in Takasaki City that look like clusters of two-storey houses. More about Ridge by Snark and Ouvi
Tapered tree-like columns support a triangulated wooden canopy at this summer pavilion in Helsinki designed by Aalto University student Pyry-Pekka Kantonen (photos by Tiia Ettala). More about The World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Pavilion by Aalto University Wood Studio students
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Vienna designers Mischer'Traxler present a basket-making machine that stops working when nobody's looking at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. More about Collective Works by Mischer'Traxler