Here are some photos and renderings of Zaha Hadid’s Ideal House installation at the IMM Cologne furniture fair.

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Milanese architect/designer Fabio November has sent us images of his latest project – a flagship store for American shoe brand Stuart Weitzman at 27 Via dei Condotti in Rome.

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Dutch architects Merkx + Girod have won the Lensvelt de Architect Interior Prize 2007 for their Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht – a bookstore inside a former Dominican church.

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Rove, the London gallery owned by Kenny Schachter, have sent us photographs of Zaha Hadid’s Z.BOX installation at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Measuring 13 x 3 x 3 metres and weighing six tons, the installation was part of the Art Positions container exhibition held at Miami Beach earlier this month.

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Stockholm Design Week: Xile, a flexible tunnel designed by Swedish designer Mats Karlsson, is one of three winners of the Forum AID Award 2008, announced in Stockholm on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Architect Ayako Murata has created an installation at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama, Tokyo.

The installation, consisting of cables and lamps used on construction sites, creates a series of arches and columns suggestive of classical architecture, but suspended from the ceiling.

Ayako Murata previously worked for Japanese architect Jun Aoki and set up Office Ayako Murata in 2006.

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Architects Tobias Wallisser and Chris Bosse designed a lounge for Architonic at the IMM Cologne furnishing fair held earlier this month in Germany.

The lounge was inspired by arctic slabs of ice and provided the setting for a party to celebrate architectural materials database Architonic’s fifth birthday.

Wallisser is formerly a partner at Dutch architects UNStudio while Bosse designed the Aquatic Center for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing while working for Australian architects PTW. The two have recently launched a new architectural practice called LAVA.

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Tokyo Design Week: here’s another project from Torafu architects; this time their Nike Air Force 1 shoestore in Harajuku, Tokyo.

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More airships: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has sent us a couple of new images showing the interior of his flying hotel proposal, Manned Cloud.

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