News: these new images show the interiors and exteriors of David Chipperfield's soon-to-complete museum and gallery complex in a converted steel factory in Milan (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield's City of Culture nears completion in Milan
News: Italian furniture brand Driade has appointed British architect David Chipperfield as its artistic director, a year after it was rescued from financial collapse. More about Driade appoints David Chipperfield as artistic director
Interview: the UK is a difficult place to "do architecture" thanks to the dominance of the commercial sector and a lack of government investment says British architect David Chipperfield, whose firm is refurbishing Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. More about The UK "is not interested in funding" public buildings says David Chipperfield
British architect David Chipperfield has completed his first project for Swiss accessories brand Bally – the interior of a flagship boutique on London's New Bond Street (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield models Bally flagship store on 1920s Marcel Breuer interior
David Chipperfield has filled the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin with 144 tree trunks – the museum's final exhibition before renovation work by the British architect starts. More about David Chipperfield installs tree trunk columns in Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie
Fashion house Valentino's New York flagship store, with a grey Terrazzo interior by British architect David Chipperfield, has opened to shoppers (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield's Valentino flagship store opens in New York
News: London architecture firms Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield have been granted planning permission for two hexagonal towers on an estate in the city's borough of Hackney (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield and Karakusevic Carson granted permission for Hackney towers
News: the New York flagship store for fashion house Valentino designed by David Chipperfield Architects will open on Fifth Avenue this summer. More about David Chipperfield designs Valentino's New York flagship store
News: department store Selfridges has appointed British architect David Chipperfield to redesign the east side of its flagship store on London's Oxford Street. More about David Chipperfield to overhaul London's Selfridges department store
News: "An architecture challenge doesn't come much better than this," says David Chipperfield, who has been named winner in the competition to design a new home for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield triumphs in Nobel Center competition
News: Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers and David Chipperfield have been named on a shortlist of six architects in the running to resurrect Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace exhibition hall in south London. More about Zaha, Rogers and Chipperfield shortlisted for Crystal Palace rebuild
An art gallery designed by David Chipperfield Architects to showcase the largest private art collection in Latin America opened this weekend in Mexico City (+ slideshow). More about Museo Jumex by David Chipperfield opens in Mexico City
News: British architect David Chipperfield has been named as the architecture laureate for the 2013 Praemium Imperiale arts prize, awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. More about David Chipperfield awarded Praemium Imperiale
News: the world's largest free-standing museum dedicated to photography is set to be built in Morocco by British firm David Chipperfield Architects. More about Chipperfield to design photography museum for Marrakech
British architect David Chipperfield has completed a new gallery building at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri (+ slideshow). More about Saint Louis Art Museum East Building by David Chipperfield
Dezeen is in Venice this week for the preview of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until 25 November.
See our photos from the first day on Facebook, see all our preview stories here and watch our interview with director of the biennale David Chipperfield here, in which he urges the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with” in order to avoid becoming merely “urban decorators.”
Above image: Vessel by O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects in the Arsenale
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Dezeen Wire: this year's Venice Architecture Biennale isn't about the genius of any single architects, director David Chipperfield explained today at the press preview of the exhibition. More about "This biennale isn't an X Factor of who's hot right now" - David Chipperfield
With the Venice Architecture Biennale opening next week, here's a full transcript of our interview with its director David Chipperfield, who explains the thinking behind this year's theme, Common Ground.
Chipperfield stresses the need for the profession to address "the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with." Otherwise he says, architects risk being relegated to being "urban decorators." Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Architects risk becoming "urban decorators" - David Chipperfield
Dezeen Wire: David Chipperfield and Long & Kentish are to design a new restaurant and bar for friends of London's Royal Academy of Arts. More about Chipperfield and Long & Kentish design friends' rooms at the Royal Academy
David Chipperfield Architects have won a competition to design a museum of fine arts in the city of Reims, France with proposals for a building clad in translucent white marble and glass. More about Musée des Beaux-arts in Reims by David Chipperfield Architects