Dezeen Wire: the London 2012 Olympic Torch by east London designers BarberOsgerby has been awarded as Design of the Year in a ceremony at the Design Museum in London tonight. More about London 2012 Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby wins Design of the Year 2012
Overlapping walls of curving concrete encase this funeral chapel in Graz by Austrian architects Hofrichter-Ritter. More about Chapel of Rest in Graz by Hofrichter-Ritter Architekten
Milan 2012: this armchair with a pleated leather seat by London designer Benjamin Hubert was inspired by sleeves with puffed shoulders on Italian Renaissance clothing. More about Juliet by Benjamin Hubert for Poltrona Frau
The huge tiled roof that wraps around this Tokyo house integrates arched windows and openings for tree branches. More about House with Eaves and an Attic by ON design
This stacking chair by French designer Philippe Starck is made of discarded material found in lumber factories and industrial plastic plants. More about Broom Chair by Philippe Starck for Emeco
Dezeen Wire: a gymnasium in Baghdad that was designed by Le Corbusier in 1957 is to be restored - Yahoo! News
Completed in 1965 under Saddam Hussein, years after the iconic architect's death, the Baghdad Gymnasium has fallen into disrepair following its occupation by American soldiers.
See more stories about Le Corbusier on Dezeen here.
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Milan 2012: Australian designer Marc Newson presented this child's rocking horse for Italian brand Magis at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. More about Rocky by Marc Newson for Magis
Wooden sticks shield the facades of this house in Belgium by Ghent studio Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, while a tree bursts through the roof. More about House Bernheimbeuk by Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk writes about the focus on alternative means of production, open-source design and crowd-funding that permeated this year's Milan furniture fair in his column for the Guardian newspaper.
McGuirk talked to Dezeen about these issues when he popped into Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST last week - watch the interview in our daily show from Milan here.
We also spoke to editor-in-chief of Domus magazine Joseph Grima about The Future in the Making show he curated that's all about collaboration, open design, crowd-sourcing and hacking, and interviewed curator Beatrice Galilee at Hacked Lab where workshops, demonstrations and happenings took over the city's most famous department store all week.
See all our coverage from Milan here.
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Designed in Hackney: Hoxton-based designer Michael Marriott created a landscape of cardboard tubes to display items on show at this year's Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum. The winning entries for each category will be revealed at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening. More about Designed in Hackney: Designs of the Year exhibition by Michael Marriott
We love projects that involve castles. Windows are set within two-metre-deep recesses in the stone walls of this castle visitor centre in southwest Germany by Swiss architect Max Dudler. More about Heidelberg Castle Visitor Centre by Max Dudler
Milan 2012: the flexible back of this chair by Swedish designers Front comprises a thick spring wrapped in black leather. More about Gentle by Front for Porro
Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. More about Devil Amongst the Tailors by Aberrant Architecture
Slideshow: a wall of wooden scales folds through the glazed facade of this house and studio that Korean architects AND designed for an artist in South Korea. More about Skinspace by AND
Dezeen archive: this week in Milan a lamp that blows bubbles attracted a lot of attention, so we've grouped together all of our stories about bubbles made from soap, plastic or otherwise. See all the stories »
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Milan 2012: today is the final edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST in which we round up some of the other things that have been happening during the week. More about Dezeen Studio: Sundayat MOST
Slideshow: slatted wooden screens separate the three staggered tiers of this restaurant that Spanish architects Pauzarq have completed in Bilbao. More about Restaurant in Bilbao by Pauzarq
Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. More about Five years ago...
Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK studio have created a lamp that slots together like a children's toy. More about CONST lamp by THINKK studio at Ventura Lambrate
Milan 2012: today’s edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST is all about performance. First up Faye Toogood tells us how she's curing visitors with clay in a soothing pavilion called La Cura, then Sheridan Coakley of London design brand SCP shows us round their stand where one chair is upholstered using traditional methods each day. More about Dezeen Studio: Saturdayat MOST