Competition: we’ve teamed up with NAi Publishers to to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of the Dutch Design Yearbook 2011. More about Competition: five copies of the 2011 Dutch Design Yearbook to be won
In this next movie from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the Dutch architecture studio's preoccupation with the megacity and its hinterland - "the vacuum left in the wake of the city's expansion." He suggests that we're moving to an era of city states and this is leading to a potential new relevance for architects as civic leaders. More about Reinier de Graaf on OMA, the megacity and its hinterland
Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in the UK is to appoint a new director for Design Council CABE following the announcement that Diane Haigh has left the post. More about Design Council CABE director steps down
Qubique 2011: if you've always wanted to be photographed wearing a chocolate moustache, come along to the party Dezeen is co-hosting with Red, the association of Spanish design companies, in Berlin on Friday. More about Mr Chocolate Moustaches by Diego Ramos
Here's an extremely pointy apartment block by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office. More about On The Corner by EASTERN Design Office
Architects Codesign have converted a Stockholm warehouse into a school. More about Stadsmissionen School by Codesign
Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times
Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age.
See links to more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here.
More about "Humanitarian design project aims to build a sense of community"- The New York Times
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi has emailed us her analysis of the gender and race of designers whose portraits we've published on our homepage in the last seven months which, she says, shows a predominance of white males. More about Gender and race on Dezeen
Dezeen Wire: artist Ai Weiwei, architect Bjarke Ingels and designer Joris Laarman are among the winners of WSJ. Magazine's first Innovator of the Year Awards, a prize honouring the world's most creative and progressive individuals. More about WSJ. Magazine announces winners of inaugural Innovator of the Year Awards
Dutch Design Week 2011: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Akko Goldenbeld has made a model of the city that plays the piano. More about City Music by Akko Goldenbeld
Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects' Future Trends Survey for September points to a drop in the number of architectural practices anticipating increased demand for their services. More about "Confidence about overall workloads remains fragile" - RIBA Future Trends Survey
Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China that's covered in firewood. More about Liyuan Library by Li Xiaodong
Dezeen Wire: in his latest review for The Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore criticises Daniel Libeskind's angular five-storey extension to the Military History Museum in Dresden, stating that "something so large and conspicuous should surely be more than a gesture." More about Libeskind's Military History Museum should be "more than a gesture"- The Observer
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs gives a tour of our activities at Dezeen Space in this movie filmed on the last day at 54 Rivington Street in London.
Dezeen Space was open from 17 September to 16 October and hosted our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up, the launch of our new Dezeen Book of Ideas, specially commissioned sculptures by Dominic Wilcox, a new product launch by Paul Cocksedge, the Dezeen Lounge furnished by Ligne Roset and a micro-exhibition that changed every day.
More about Dezeen Space at 54 Rivington Street
Architects mihadesign have completed a Tokyo house with sloping skylights, suspended lofts and a staircase that spirals around a wall. More about Gate by mihadesign
Dutch Design Week 2011: best known for his grown-up furniture that would be quite at home in a fairy tale, Amsterdam designer Bo Reudler presents a collection of children's furniture in Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week this week. More about Kids’ Furniture by Bo Reudler Studio
Grey and white blinds create a chequerboard pattern against the facade of this Barcelona school by MMDM Arquitectes. More about Castellbisbal School by MMDM Arquitectes
Dezeen Wire: the twelve winners of this year's Dutch Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Eindoven this evening, including a robot that prints chairs from recycled refrigerators, street lamps with no poles and a bunker that's been cut in half. More about Winners of 2011 Dutch Design Awards announced
Due to the popularity of Melvin, a machine we showed on Dezeen Screen that triggers a chain of strange events when an alarm sounds, this month's top ten is all about machines. More about Dezeen’s top ten: machines
Customers can leave their children playing downstairs and dine beside a four metre-high model elephant at this Bucharest restaurant. More about Phill by Nuca Studio