Dezeen Wire: co-founder of London's Design Museum Terence Conran has donated a cash gift of £7.5 million towards developing the museum's new home in south London. More about Terence Conran makes major gift to the Design Museum
Dezeen Screen: this movie by Royal College of Art graduate Markus Kayser shows his Solar Sinter 3D-printing machine at work in the desert, making glass objects by melting sand with sunlight. Watch the movie »
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Competition: we've teamed up with British designer Michael Young to give away five signed copies of his new book that chronicles his time working in China. More about Competition: five signed copies of Michael Young: Works in China to be won
Scottish architects Page\Park have completed a centre for blinded sailors, soldiers and airmen in Wilkieston, Scotland. More about Centre for Scottish War Blinded by Page\Park
Paris landscape designers TN Plus and architects Beckmann N’Thépe have won a competition to design a zoological park on a series of artificial islands for the outskirts of St Petersburg. More about Zoological Park of St Petersburg by TN Plus and Beckmann-N'Thépé
In this movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma talks about her book PIG 05049, in which she traced and catalogued all the products derived from a single animal. More about Christien Meindertsma at My Way talks
Hats by Japanese milliner Akio Hirata appear to float between the floor and ceiling in this installation by Japanese designers Nendo. More about Akio Hirata’s Exhibition of Hats by Nendo
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The asphalt surface of a car park extends inside this cafe in Shizuoka, Japan, by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office. More about Café/day by Suppose Design Office
Dezeen Wire: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have announced 25 new additions to the World Heritage List, including the Fagus Factory by Walter Gropius as reported yesterday, but deferred an application for the inclusion of 19 buildings by Modernist architect Le Corbusier, referring the decision to the next committee meeting.
See the full list of accepted applications here.
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Mark Nixon of London studio CZWG has turned a bridge in Aarhus, Denmark, into a musical instrument by hanging metal pipes from the underside. More about Chimecco by Mark Nixon
Steven Holl Architects have collaborated with Brazilian architect Solange Fabião on this wave-shaped museum of the sea in Biarritz, France, which opened this week. More about Cité de l’Océan et du Surf by Steven Holl and Solange Fabião
Show RCA 2011: German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert. More about The Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser
To celebrate the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei we've compiled all our stories about his work in one place. Ai Weiwei was missing for 81 days after being detained by authorities at Beijing airport on 3 April. See all the stories »
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Spanish architects bgstudio have completed this looping bridge that links the historic city of Alicante to the beach, crossing a busy road. More about Pasarela del Postiguet by bgstudio
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor talks about his design for this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the preview yesterday in London. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More about Interview with Peter Zumthor at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011
Architecture student Ben Kirk has designed conceptual towers to replace the fast-declining bee population by shooting artificial pollinators into the air. More about London Without Bees by Ben Kirk
Athletes are illustrated across a wall of orange tubes in this canteen at the headquarters of sports brand Nike in Hilversum, the Netherlands, by Amsterdam studio UXUS. More about Nike Canteen by UXUS
Dezeen Wire: Spiegel online reports that Walter Gropius' pioneering 1911 Fagus Factory at Alfeld in Lower Saxony, Germany, will be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
UNESCO is still deliberating whether to add works by Le Corbusier to the list. Via Spiegel online
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Dezeen Wire: The Telegraph has confirmed that UK magazine Design Week is to close, as reported by Dezeen earlier today. New Media Age magazine will also close, although the websites of both titles will continue.
Dezeen understands that Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight and most of her editorial team have been made redundant. Read The Telegraph's story | Read our earlier story
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