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View online     Pierre Yovanovitch opts for salmon pink in revamp of London restaurant Salmon-coloured surfaces, curved furnishings and a cooking-themed wall mural appear inside high-end restaurant Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, which has been recently refreshed by Pierre Yovanovitch. Read more ›   OMA designs The Link department store and hotel in Vienna OMA has won a competition to build The Link hotel and department store in Vienna, which will be topped by a series of public rooftop gardens. Read more ›   Microsoft unveils dual-screen folding Android smartphone Microsoft has revealed the design of the Surface Duo, a dual-screen Android folding phone, which can be opened down the middle like a book. Read more ›   Rachel Armstrong to speak about living architecture at Dezeen Day Rachel Armstrong, professor of experimental architecture at Newcastle University, will speak about cities of the future at Dezeen Day on 30 October. Read more ›   Arthur Carabott designs app that is "like virtual reality for the ears" London designer Arthur Carabott has worked with composer Anna Meredith to create an augmented reality app that immerses listeners in a piece of music. Read more ›   Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black to leave the Design Museum Breaking news: Design Museum co-directors Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black are leaving their posts at the London museum. A successor has been lined up and is expected to be named later today, Dezeen understands. Read more ›   White tiles camouflage Aesop store against Taipei's urban landscape The white-tile interior of this Aesop store has been designed by Mlkk Studio to match the materiality of buildings dotted around Taipei's Daan district. Read more ›   Nendo designs N02 Recycle chair from household plastic waste for Fritz Hansen Japanese studio Nendo has created a collection of stackable chairs from recycled household plastics, which take design cues from a folded sheet of paper. Read more ›   Timber trusses support undulating roof of Italian convention centre An undulating, multi-pitched roof covers the timber-framed Congress and Exhibition Centre in Agordo, Italy, designed by architects Emanuele Bressan and Andrea Botter. Read more ›   Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Studio Libeskind and MVRDV compete to build museum for Orlando Pulse shooting Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Studio Libeskind and MVRDV are among six teams that have revealed their competing proposals for a museum and memorial dedicated to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. Read more ›   Rael San Fratello 3D prints earth structures to demonstrate potential of mud architecture To explore the possibilities of mud architecture, Rael San Fratello has created 3D-printed prototypes that take cues from historical earthen construction built along the Rio Grande river. Read more ›   Dezeen Weekly features Banksy's unusual solution to a trade mark dispute The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes Banksy's pop-up-shop installation, opened in response to a trade mark dispute, and Zaha Hadid Architects Beijing airport terminal. Sign up to Dezeen Weekly here › Read more ›   Job Smeets claims he is "under house arrest" following theft of £5 million gold toilet Designer Job Smeets has issued a spoof video claiming police will not let him leave his home after the disappearance of a solid-gold artwork by his friend Maurizio Cattelan. Read more ›   Only one day left to buy Dezeen Day tickets at the reduced early-bird rate Discounted early-bird tickets for Dezeen Day, our new design and architecture conference, are on sale until midnight UK time, Friday 4 October. Read more ›   BIG updates details for Toronto's plant-covered King complex BIG has released images of the residences inside its "boxilated landscape" Toronto development complete with private greenhouses, rooms for meditation and Nordic-inspired details. Read more ›   Richard Hutten to discuss sustainability at Warsaw Home's Design Forum Dezeen promotion: designers Richard Hutten, Karim Rashid and Luca Nichetto, as well as Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, will speak at Warsaw Home's conference. Read more ›   Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs           You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise