We’re heading to Tokyo today for Tokyo design week so, while we’re on the plane, here is some contemporary Japanese architecture for you to enjoy, courtesy of New Zen, a recent book about contemporary Japanese tea houses published by 8Books. The project shown here is Souan Tea House by Toshihiko Suzuki, which was built in 2003.
Robert Stadler has sent us photos of his lighting installation in the church of Saint-Paul Saint-Louis in Paris during the annual Nuit Blanche all-night festival earlier this month. More »
Stan Allen Architect of Princeton, New Jersey has sent through some new images of Sagaponac House, a weekend house at Eastern Long Island. More »
Louise Campbell‘s website shows Instant Allotment, a portable fabric structure that allows you to set up an allotment wherever you are.
Dutch Design Week ended in Eindhoven yesterday (Sunday) but here is another project from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show: Brandmerk, by Esther de Groot, is a series of amulets representing national identity based on brand logos from the wearer’s home country. More »
This has been around a bit, but we can’t not do something on Aya Tsukioka’s clothing designs for people scared of crime. More »
Designer Arne Quinze has opened a new 10,000 square metre headquarters in Kortrijk, Belgium, called Gallery 113. More »
The Los Angeles branch of New York design retailer Moss presents an installation of Dieter Rams’ 606 Universal Shelving System. More »
Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall have won their country’s most prestigious architecture prize – the RAIA Jørn Utzon Award for International Architecture – for their Manchester Civil Justice Centre in England. More »
Coso Cafè is a bar in Palermo, Sicily by Italian architects Francesco Moncada and Massimo Tepedino. More »
Kiki van Eijk presents a new collection of hand-made glass lampshades at Eat Drink Design, the temporary restaurant set up in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week this week (and which continues until Sunday 28 October). More »
Here’s another project from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show, which opened on Saturday during Dutch Design Week. More »
We’re rounding off Dezeen’s Klein Dytham day with their recently completed Wonder Room, a major refit of part of the ground floor at Selfridges department store in Oxford Street, London. More »
It’s Klein Dytham day on Dezeen, and here’s another of the Tokyo-based architects’ new projects: a commercial building in Naha, Okinawa, called R3 Ukishima. More »
Here’s another new project by Klein Dytham Architecture, this time a combined home and salon for a couple of young hairdressers in Jingumae, Tokyo. More »