Dezeen Wire: journalist Oliver Wainwright has revealed on Twitter that he will be the new architecture and design critic at UK newspaper the Guardian.
Wainwright, who is currently the features editor at UK architecture weekly Building Design, will take over from Jonathan Glancey, who left the role in February.
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Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. More about Parallel Architecture by James Thompson at Show RCA 2012
The first five winners of this year's TED Prize for urban innovation have been announced. Recipients include London design studio 00:/ for its project WikiHouse, which involves the construction of wooden houses from a downloaded kit of parts. More about TED Prize winners announced
Thin layers are gradually shaved away from a cylindrical block of chocolate to reveal the embedded geometric patterns in this installation by Dutch designer Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum (+ movie). More about Chocolate Mill by Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has fitted out a restaurant at the top of the tallest skyscraper in central Paris. More about Ciel de Paris by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
This snaking concrete structure by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects winds down from a road to the beach along the edge of the Arctic Ocean. More about Havøysund Tourist Route by Reiulf Ramstad Architects
Earlier today we featured objects made of tarmac. Now here's some furniture made of bricks by designers Rachel Griffin of Earnest Studio in Rotterdam and Emilie Pallard of Eindhoven. More about Building by Earnest Studio and Emilie Pallard
Austrian architects BWM Architekten und Partner and Michael Manzenreiter have completed a hotel in central Vienna with big oval windows all over its brown mosaic facade. More about Hotel Topazz by BWM Architekten und Partner and Michael Manzenreiter
A kilometre-long cable car designed by British architects Wilkinson Eyre has opened today over the River Thames in London. More about Emirates Air Line by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
University of Brighton graduate Josh Bitelli has made a series of furniture and vases from asphalt and road-marking paint (+movie). More about Road Workers and White Liners by Josh Bitelli
The latest issue of our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter includes a drive-through airport, a house with built-in graffiti and an eye-tracking camera (above).
There’re also new jobs, competitions, interviews and music plus details of our next pop-up shop Dezeen Super Store, which opens on Saturday.
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A hole in this toothbrush directs water from the tap upwards like a drinking fountain for easy rinsing (+movie). More about Rinser Brush by Amron Experimental
Hoxton architects Edgley Design have tucked a rubber-clad residence and aluminium artist's studio behind a row of semi-detached houses in Hackney. More about Amhurst Road by Edgley Design
French architects ECDM have completed a nursery in Paris with rippling concrete walls (+ slideshow). More about Crèche Rue Pierre Budin by ECDM
Here are the first images of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that New York architect Steven Holl is designing for St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. More about Maggie’s Barts by Steven Holl
Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). More about Tangible Textural Interface by Eunhee Jo at Show RCA 2012
Chinese firm Urbanus has created a cylindrical registry office in Shenzhen that looks like it's been showered with confetti. More about Nanshan Marriage Registration Centre by Urbanus
Steps connecting the gradually rising floors of this Paris house by Moussafir Architectes can be glimpsed through the cut-out shutters on its glazed facade (+ slideshow). More about Maison Escalier by Moussafir Architectes
Dezeen Wire: Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry and Kengo Kuma are among more than 70 architects and designers who have donated drawings, paintings and other works to an auction for San Francisco-based charity Architecture for Humanity.
Buyers have until June 29 to bid on the lots, which range from sketches on the backs of napkins to watercolours and digital prints.
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French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance based this bookcase for design brand Meta on the spiralling shape of an ammonite fossil. More about Ammonite by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance for Meta