Here’s another building with a pointy prow, but this time it’s a public toilet. Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these pictures of the new facilities in Gravesend in Kent, England, by Plastik Architects. More »
Foster + Partners have released designs for the biggest building ever built: Crystal Island in Moscow will be 450m high, cover an area of almost half a million square metres and contain a total floor area of 2.5 million square metres. More »
Italian designer Ettore Sottsass has died aged 90, the New York Times reports (via dezain.net, via archinect).
We should have run this over Christmas, on account of its punny name. Hoe Hoe Hoe! was an installation at Container Ground during Tokyo Designers Week in November. Students of Tama Art University in Tokyo filled their shipping container with a papier mache structure lined with shredded newspaper. More »
Japanese designer Nosigner created the space for an exhibition called Techtile at the University of Tokyo last November. More »
It’s a new year, so it’s time to do the accounts. 2007 was our first year and it was a great start: Dezeen got 2.5 million unique visitors in total, and 4.5 million page loads. More »