Dezeenwire: architect Nigel Coates is to retire from his role as head of architecture at the Royal College of Art in London after 16 years. More about Nigel Coates retires from Royal College of Art
Swedish design duo Elding Oscarson have completed this office for design consultants No Picnic in Stockholm, divided in two by a reflective aluminium wall. More about No Picnic by Elding Oscarson
An exhibition of work by London architect Zaha Hadid has opened inside her Mobile Art Pavilion (see our earlier story), which has found its permanent home in Paris having toured New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong since 2008. More about Une Architecture at the Mobile Art Pavilion by Zaha Hadid
In the third movie made by Dezeen in 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, architects Neville Mars and Marco Casagrande explain their projects. More about Neville Mars and Marco Casagrande at Shenzhen architecture biennale
Dutch studio MVRDV have won a design competition to build a Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou, China, formed of eight giant balloon-shaped forms. More about Comic and Animation Museum by MVRDV
Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a mosque, Islamic centre and museum in Tirana, Albania. More about Cultural centre in Tirana by BIG
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us these pictures of an archives centre designed by Paris studio LAN Architecture, which has an exterior of stainless steel studs set into earth-coloured concrete to reflect the colour and texture of the surrounding French landscape. More about EDF Archives Centre by LAN Architecture
Design cooperative NAU and DGJ have completed this interior for Swiss bank Raiffeisen in Zurich, featuring curving walls perforated to create pictures of faces. More about Open Lounge by NAU + DGJ
Dezeen Screen: in this next movie filmed by Dezeen at Shenzhen& Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism 2009, Benjamin Ball of Ball-Nogues Studio talks about their installation made by suspending 10,000 garments. Watch the movie »
More about Dezeen Screen: Built to Wear by Ball-Nogues Studio
Architect Keiichi Hayashi of Japan has converted this traditional timber townhouse in central Kyoto into a cosmetics store. More about Kyoto Silk by Keiichi Hayashi
London designer Dominic Wilcox created this stylus that straps over his nose for using his touch-screen phone in the bath. More about Finger-nose Stylus by Dominic Wilcox
This 436 room hotel situated next to Malpensa Airport, Milan, has a rounded shell cut into seven bays, designed by Italian firm King Roselli Architetti. More about Sheraton Milan Malpensa Hotel by King Roselli Architetti
London designers Slowscape Collective created this temporary cinema at the Royal College of Art in London from faceted planes of oriented strand board. More about Shadowboxing exhibition by Slowscape Collective
Milan 2011: London designer Benjamin Hubert launched this chair with a pressed-felt shell at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month. More about Pod by Benjamin Hubert for De Vorm
In the first of four previously unpublished movies made by Dezeen in Shenzhen, China in December 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, curators Ou Ning and Wei Wei Shannon explain the event's objectives. More about Shenzhen architecture biennale 2009 introduction
Architect David Chipperfield has released images of the completed seafront Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate composed of six identical volumes with an acid-etched glass skin. More about Turner Contemporary by David Chipperfield
The Lisson Gallery in London are preparing an exhibition of work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who is still missing after being detained by authorities at Beijing airport on 3 April. More about Ai Weiwei at Lisson Gallery
Milan 2011: French designer Amaury Poudray has designed this waste-paper bin to be burnt with its contents for design brand Fabrica. More about Corbeille by Amaury Poudray for Fabrica
This foyer for the Royal Institute of Engineers in The Hague by Dutch practice AAArchitects has a large door which folds up from the glass facade to create a porch. More about KIVI NIRIA Foyer by AAArchitects
Milan 2011: London designer Roger Arquer has designed these lamps which are operated by touching the flowers in the adjoining vase, presented in Milan earlier this month by design brand Bosa. More about Touch Lamp Vase by Roger Arquer for Bosa
