David Chipperfield Architects to renovate Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie
Dezeen Wire: David Chipperfield Architects have won the contract to renovate Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin – artdaily More
Dezeen Wire: David Chipperfield Architects have won the contract to renovate Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin – artdaily More
Slideshow: faceted shards of anodised aluminium cover the four pointed hulls of this maritime museum in Northern Ireland dedicated to famously ill-fated ship the RMS Titanic. More
Dezeen Wire: here's a round up of design critics' reactions to the retrospective of British design that opens at the Victoria & Albert museum in London tomorrow. More
The Design Museum in London launches its Design Museum Collection iPad app today that features 59 objects from their collection, including interviews with museum director Deyan Sudjic filmed by Dezeen. Download it free from the app store here. More
Designed in Hackney: it's week four in our celebration of design from the London borough of Hackney and today's featured project is a modest glass extension to a house in Dalston by Shoreditch-based architects Platform 5. More
London architects Pernilla & Asif have unveiled designs for a pavilion that can be played like a musical instrument for the London 2012 Olympic Park. More
Designed in Hackney: next up in our showcase of design talent from Olympic host borough Hackney is Stoke Newington studio Loop.pH, who have installed this umbrella-like canopy of illuminated lace at the entrance to London's Kensington Palace. More
This refurbished pub and pizzeria in Bristol, England, features wallpaper decorated with beermat motifs and a bar clad with recycled wood including a door found in a skip. More
Designed in Hackney: today's featured designers in our London borough of Hackney showcase are Archer Architects, who inserted a Corten steel-clad hotel behind the facade of a derelict pub in Shoreditch. More
Although it may look a canteen somewhere in south-east Asia, this informal restaurant is actually located in central London. More
Slideshow: British architects HAT Projects have completed a seaside gallery in Hastings, England, with a shimmering exterior of black glazed tiles. More
A semi-circular vaulted concourse designed by British architects John McAslan + Partners will open at King’s Cross Station in London next week. More
Dezeen Wire: the British Council have revealed the names of architects, curators and researchers who will gather material about exotic places to present at an exhibition entitled Venice Takeaway in the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
The list includes London architecture studios dRMM and Aberrant Architecture, as well as London Architecture Diary editor-in-chief Elias Redstone and non-profit organisation Forum for Alternative Belfast. More
Designed in Hackney: this week's first iconic project designed in the London borough of Hackney is Dirty House, a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch with a brightly illuminated roof completed by architect David Adjaye in 2002. More
Sports brand Nike have opened an east London store where shoppers can see themselves reflected on motion-sensitive LED walls. More
A mobile theatre will visit Clerkenwell Design Week in London this May, inspired by a miniature concert hall above a coal-shed that used to be in the area in the seventeenth century. More
An electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. More
Slidehow: architects Foster + Partners have been granted permission to build two 320-metre-high towers beside the Seine, just outside Paris. More
Competition: we've teamed up with stationery brand Moleskine to give away four architectural monographs from their new series of books called Inspiration and Process in Architecture. More
The two storeys that London architects Project Orange have added to the roof of a redundant brick warehouse in Sheffield look like another building stacked on top. More