Dezeenwire: at Tokyo Designers Week later this month Thomas Heatherwick is to be named Designer of the Year and Tokujin Yoshioka is to be named Artist of the Year in the Tokyo Design & Art Environmental Awards. See press release below.
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Featured architect: David Chipperfield is our featured architect at the moment, having just been announced as this year's winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture (see our Dezeenwire story). Browse all Dezeen's stories about him in this special category.
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Yves Béhar of San Francisco design firm fuseproject has designed an affordable family of office chair inspired by suspension bridges for Herman Miller.
This temporary pavilion with reflective purple scales that shimmer in the breeze has been installed in Beijing by New York architects SO-IL. More about Flockr by SO-IL
Frei + Saarinen Architects of Switzerland renovated this 100 year-old parish centre in Zurich by installing walls at all angles. More about Parish House St. Josef by Frei + Saarinen Architects
French architect Manuelle Gautrand has completed an extension to the Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut at Villeneuve d’Ascq in France. More about Lille Métropole Musée extension by Manuelle Gautrand
Dutch firm Most Architecture have created this temporary office from wooden pallets for an Amsterdam advertising company. More about Brandbase Pallets by Most Architecture
Customers sit at large wooden frames in this hair salon by Japanese studio Three.Ball.Cascade in Chiba, Japan. More about Kashiwa Hairdresser by Three.Ball.Cascade
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Dezeen Wire: British architect David Chipperfield is to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. More about David Chipperfield to receive the Royal Gold Medal for architecture
This three-storey house in Ekoda, Tokyo, has undergone a renovation by Suppose Design Office to create six apartments, including the transformation of a rooftop conservatory into a bathroom. More about House in Ekoda by Suppose Design Office
This mobile phone concept by London designer Patrick Hyland can be charged by the heat in your pocket. More about Nokia E-Cu by Patrick Hyland
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen is media partner for SuperDesign, an exhibition hosting international designers and galleries in London during the Frieze Art Fair next week from 14-17 October. More about SuperDesign at Victoria House, London
This multi-storey car park in Soissons, France, by Paris firm Jacques Ferrier Architectures has an undulating facade of vertical timbers. More about Les Yeux Verts by Jacques Ferrier Architecture
Johnny Selman of San Francisco is designing a poster a day for 365 days based on a headline taken from the BBC News website. More about BBCX365 by Johnny Selman
Dezeen is media partner for the first Architecture & Design Film Festival taking place in New York from 14-17 October, and we have ten pairs of tickets to give away. More about Competition: ten pairs of tickets for Architecture & Design Film Festival to be won
These brick-clad apartments in Utrecht, the Netherlands, by Dutch firm Bakers Architecten appear to float above a curtain wall of glazing. More about Het Zwarte Huis Bakers Architecten
At the Designersblock exhibition during last month's London Design Festival, Tokyo designer Chicako Ibaraki displayed the Hollow stool, Weave bookshelf and Line light (above). More about Line, Weave and Hollow by Chicako Ibaraki
Israeli firm Chyutin Architects have won a competition to build this museum that will bridge over a sunken garden in Jerusalem. More about Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem by Chyutin Architects
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has designed a range of clothing that expand from two-dimensional geometric shapes into structured shirts, skirts, pants and dresses. More about 132 5. by Issey Miyake