Here are some photographs of the completed 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, which opens to the public in London tomorrow. More »
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: British design duo BarberOsgerby talk about designing the London 2012 Olympic Torch in this movie we filmed last week at the Vitra showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week. More »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with Thomas Heatherwick to give away five copies of Making, the new book covering his studio’s output to date. More »
The press preview of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei is today. See some photos of this morning’s preparations on our Facebook page.
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: a tiny mobile theatre with chimneys made from coal scuttles played host to audiences of up to six during Clerkenwell Design Week in London last week. More »
Slideshow: Dutch studio Rocha Tombal have completed a primary school in The Hague that winds around its site like a crocodile. More »
Movie: Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Thibault Penven has designed a folding boat. More »
Designed in Hackney: accessories like lamps and dividers attach to this desk system by Tomás Alonso through a gap in the surface of the table. More »
Dezeen promotion: Designjunction has announced the exhibitor line-up for its next show in a former postal sorting office in central London during the London Design Festival this September. More »
This Tokyo house by Japanese architects Aida Atelier comprises a cluster of four white-rendered blocks that support an elevated fifth block above a central patio. More »
Dezeen Watch Store: new in this week at Dezeen Watch Store is the elegant Vigorelli by Milan designer Matteo Ragni for Italian watch brand Lorenz: More »
Slideshow: a curved concrete facade wraps around the front of this house by A2+ Arquitectos in Leiria, Portugal, with a large hole revealing the rectilinear house behind (photos by Fernando Guerra). More »
A solo show of work by British designer Thomas Heatherwick opens at the V&A in London this week, featuring prototypes, experiments, material samples and finished works from key projects including UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 and his recent redesign of the double decker London bus. More »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers GraphicDesign& to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new book Page 1 – Great Expectations, which features the just the first page of Charles Dickens’ famous novel, repeated 70 times with 70 different typographic layouts. More »
Slideshow: oak-lined boxes create study rooms along the corridors of this school in southern Germany by Stuttgart architects Klumpp + Klumpp (photos by Zooey Braun). More »
