Dutch Design Week 09: FlexVaas, a vase that comes with three swappable tops to accommodate different types of flowers, won the Best Consumer Product category for designers Vij5 at the Dutch Design Awards on Saturday. More about FlexVaas by Vij5
Singapore designers Ministry of Design have completed an office interior for an advertising agency that features a drawing of the company's founder spread across the walls and floor, wielding a scaled-up model of a pencil. More about Leo Burnett Office by Ministry of Design
Dutch Design Week 09: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school's Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. More about A Drop of Water and Bioplastic Planter by Bas van der Veer
Dutch Design Week 09: Merry-go-round, a museum cloakroom where coats and possessions are suspended from the ceiling on a pulley system, has won the overall prize for the best Dutch design project at the Dutch Design Awards 2009. More about Merry-go-round Coat Rack by Studio Wieki Somers wins Dutch Design Awards 2009
Maggie's Centre, a cancer care centre in London designed by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, has won the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building designed by a British architect. More about Maggie’s Centre by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners wins Stirling Prize
New York practice Alexander Gorlin Architects have completed the interior of a summer house on Long Island, New York. More about Southampton Beach House by Alexander Gorlin
British designer Anthony Leyland launched a collection of tables made of folded steel at Designersblock in London last month. More about Manifold by Anthony Leyland
Dutch designer Bo Reudler presents new pieces in his collection of objects made from tree branches at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, which opens today. More about Slow White by Bo Reudler - new pieces
Polish Design Season: here's another Polish design classic. At Tent London last month designer Piotr Stolarski of Warsaw studio Gogo exhibited clock mechanisms embedded in a wooden plank so that consumers saw off however many they need. More about Log Clock by Piotr Stolarski
Students of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany have won the Solar Decathlon competition to design an energy-efficient solar-powered house. More about Solar Decathlon house by Technische Universität Darmstadt
Polish Design Season: here's a Polish design classic. Agnieszka Lasota's lamp design is inspired by the Polish tradition of hanging a wreath on the roof of a building to mark the completion of its construction. More about Wreath Project by Agnieszka Lasota
Studio Arne Quinze have designed theatre seating for the newly-opened Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre by REX and OMA (see our previous story) in Dallas, USA. More about Theatre chair for Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre by Studio Arne Quinze
Dezeenwire: a YouGov survey published this week claims that the public prefer traditional to contemporary buildings. See press release from Robert Adam Architects below. More about "People prefer traditionally designed buildings" - YouGov
Designers StokkeAustad presented a cantilevered bench with a concrete base at an exhibition called Norwegian Prototypes during the London Design Festival last month. More about Cantilevered bench by StokkeAustad
Architects Foster + Partners have designed a dining table for Italian design brand Molteni&C. More about Arc table by Foster + Partners for Molteni&C
Paris architects Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix have completed a holiday home and guest house in Siwa, Egypt. More about Ecolodge by Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix
An exhibition of new work by Atelier Van Lieshout is on show at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London this week. More about Furniture II by Atelier Van Lieshout at Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Polish Design Season: Warsaw-based designers Kosmos Project exhibited a cross-shaped radio at Pierre Berge & Associes in Brussels last month. More about The Radio by Kosmos Project
A theatre designed by Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX and Rem Koolhaas of OMA opens in Dallas, USA, this week. More about The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre by REX and OMA
Brussels designer Alain Gilles has created two armchairs combining second-hand objects for non-profit Belgian organisation Les Petits Riens/Spullenhulp. More about Experimenta One & Two by Alain Gilles