Danish bicycle company Biomega launch two new bikes today, one by London designer Ross Lovegrove and the other by Danish design collective KiBiSi. More about LDN by Ross Lovegrove and NYC by KiBiSi for Biomega
This residential building in Copenhagen with sloping green roofs by Danish architects BIG will be completed in October, and has just won the 2010 Scandinavian Green Roof Award. More about 8 House by BIG
Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this one-person house with a tobacco shop on the ground floor in Osaka, Japan. More about A Small Tobacco Shop by Avehideshi Architects and Associates
DezeenTV: young British designer Benjamin Hubert is next in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, speaking about working with eccentric craftsmen, the functional beauty of everyday objects and the happy accident that kick-started his career. More about Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Benjamin Hubert
Dezeen promotion: business stationery brand Vistaprint are offering Dezeen readers the chance to order 500 business cards for just £5. More about Architecture-inspired business cards by Vistaprint.com
Designer Aurélien Barbry of Denmark has created a collection of cork stoppers for design brand Normann Copenhagen. More about Wine & Bar by Aurélien Barbry for Normann Copenhagen
Dezeenwire: the Mayor of London has published a guide containing 90 standards for new housing in London - London Evening Standard
The new London Housing Design Guide can be downloaded here.
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Six shortlisted proposals for the next art installation atop the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square have been unveiled today, including a giant blue cockerel, a cash machine that operates a pipe organ and an enormous model of a battenberg cake (above). More about Fourth Plinth proposals unveiled for Trafalgar Square
This renovation of a house in Tokyo by Keiji Ashizawa Design involved creating a courtyard through the upper storeys. More about Skycourt by Keiji Ashizawa Design
This stepped cardboard installation was designed and built by Berlin University of Arts students to display their own work and meandered around a gallery at their summer show. More about UdK Bookshop 2010 by Dalia Butvidaite, Leonard Steidle and Johannes Drechsler
This house in Hiroshima by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office is surrounded by an offset concrete shell to create a series of triangular terraces between the inner and outer walls. More about House in Minamimachi 3 by Suppose Design Office
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Here’s another conceptual project from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Yaniv Berg (see his coffee machine in our earlier story), this time a digital SLR camera where the lens and body are merged to form a kinked cylinder. More about Periscope Camera by Yaniv Berg
Finnish architects Anssi Lassila and Teemu Hirvilammi of Lassila Hirvilammi with Jani Jansson of Luonti have completed this slate-clad church with a separate steeple in Jyväskylä, Finland. More about Kuokkala Church by Lassila Hirvilammi and Luonti
American designer Paul Loebach created this collection of rustic furniture in reference to the country cabins erected in nineteenth-century Adirondack, New York. More about Great Camp Collection by Paul Loebach
DezeenTV: Copenhagen designers Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi are the next guests in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, talking us through some of their influences including Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi and the importance of craft in their work. More about Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: GamFratesi
Dezeenwire: European architects are becoming more enthusiastic about using prefabricated elements according to a report by Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision. See press release below. More about “European architects positive about possibilities of prefab” – Arch-Vision
Dutch studio NL Architects have won a competition to design a stage intended to sit on a breakwater in the river IJ, Amsterdam. More about Multi Mill by NL Architects
Japanese office Ninkipen have completed this office in Osaka with a facade of aluminum louvres that appear to bubble. More about Mole by Ninkipen!
Brussels designer Sylvain Willenz drew on cassette tapes and floppy disks for the design of these external hard drives. More about CLS Mobile Drive by Sylvain Willenz