Dezeenwire: the winners of Index Awards, the biannual global design prize that rewards designs that improve life, were announced in Copenhagen last night. Winners in the five categories (body, home, work, play and community) each earn €100,000. Winners include Chulha, a cooking stove for the developing world by Philips Design, and PIG 05049 by Christien Meindertsma - a book that documents all the uses of a pig. www.indexaward.dk
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Archivi Architects & Associates of Osaka have completed a private house in Wakaura bay, near Wakayama city in Japan. More about House in Wakaura by Archivi Architects & Associates
French car brand Citroën will launch its new DS3 model at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. More about DS3 by Citroën
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in the desert near Abu Dhabi. More about Masdar City Centre by LAVA
London Design Festival 09: Korean designers Maezm will show work including Table-Dish-Cover, a silicon tablecloth with integrated dishes, at Designersblock in London next month. More about Table-Dish-Cover by Maezm
London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has completed a wall that incorporates 1,000 nest boxes for birds and bats in Cardiff Bay, UK. More about Animal Wall by Gitta Gschwendtner
London Design Festival 09: Waggott Tripp & Graham, who created an installation where the viewer becomes the exhibit, are one of 10 designers to have won our Tent Digital competition for free exhibition space at Tent Digital during London Digital Week in September. More about Tent Digital competition winners
Amsterdam architects O+A have completed an extension to a villa near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. More about Villa extension by O+A
This month's top ten features Dezeen's most popular stories about retail projects. In first place is Shop in a church by Merkx + Girod Architecten. More about Dezeen’s top ten: shops
American designer Karl Zahn has designed a flat-pack pendant lamp for American brand Artecnica. More about Phrena by Karl Zahn for Artecnica
Copenhagen architect Morten Emil Engel has won a competition to design stools that will furnish an exhibition building by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow at the Krabbesholm Højskole in Skive, Denmark. More about Bow-Wow Stool by Morten Emil Engel
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Graphic artist Chris Labrooy has designed a series of type faces based on the work of famous architects and designers. More about Frank, Ettore and Toyo by Chris Labrooy
Photographs of work by architect Peter Zumthor, taken by London photographer Hélène Binet, will be on show at the Gabrielle Ammann Gallery in Cologne next week. More about Photographs of the work of Peter Zumthor by Hélène Binet
Korean designers Podium have completed a cafe in Seoul, Korea, which is designed specifically for children. More about Kids Cafe Piccolo by Podium
Barcelona designer Juan Pablo Quintero of Mediodesign has created a bar stool for Xemei, a restaurant in Barcelona, Spain. More about Xemei Stool by Mediodesign
Dezeen have teamed up with the Design Museum in London to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of the exhibition catalogue for Super Contemporary, currently on show at the museum. More about Competition: five copies of Super Contemporary catalogue to be won
Danish designers Komplot have created a set of concrete furniture for Swedish brand Nola. More about Concrete Things by Komplot for Nola
WeSC Concept Store is a skate and snowboard store in Olso, Norway, created by Oslo designers Arkitekturverkstedet i Oslo. More about WeSC Concept Store by Arkitekturverkstedet i Oslo
Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won an international competition to design the Astana National Library in Astana, Kazakhstan. More about Astana National Library by BIG