Monthly archives: March 2009

Design Indaba videos: 5.5 designers

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Design Indaba 09: the ninth video in this series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month features young Paris studio 5.5 designers. More »

Peepoo bag by Anders Wilhelmson

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Designer Anders Wilhelmson, in collaboration with Camilla Wirseen and Peter Thuvander, has developed the Peepoo bag – a single-use, disposable toilet bag intended to improve sanitary conditions in developing nations. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

House at Sobral da Lagoa by Bak Gordon

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Photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us his set of photographs documenting a recent residential project by Portuguese architect Bak Gordon. More »

Fireball Lilly Lodge by Hogarth Architects

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Hogarth Architects have designed a holiday home in Kilifi, Kenya, that consists of huts on stilts and towers, connected by rope bridges. More »

Competition: five copies of DBOOK to be won

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Dezeen have got together with publishers a+t to offer readers the chance to win five copies of DBOOK – Density, Data, Diagrams, Dwellings. More »

Takasugi-an by Terunobu Fujimori

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Following yesterday’s Charcoal House story, here’s another of Terunobu Fujimori’s projects photographed by Edmund Sumner: this time Takasugi-an, a tea house in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Dezeenmail #28

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Design Indaba videos: Doung Anwar Jahangeer

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Design Indaba 09:
architect Doung Anwar Jahangeer talks about his Spaza-de-move-on project – winner of the inaugural SOUTH award at Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month – in this eighth movie in the series. More »