Dezeenwire: Sunday Times architecture critic Hugh Pearman has posted his review of Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum in Athens on his website – www.hughpearman.com
Dezeen promotion: we’ve teamed up with Greek developer OLIAROS to launch UPTO35, a competition open to architects under the age of 35 to design an affordable student housing complex in Athens. More »
Shanghai Expo 2010: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has released images of his updated design for the UK pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. More »
Italian designer Sergio Calatroni has completed the interior design of Emporium, a fashion store in Tokyo. More »
DMY Berlin 09: Norwegian designers Fantastic Norway have sent photos of Walking Berlin, a project in which they dressed up as their latest building and walked around Berlin. More »
Basque architects VAUMM have completed a kindergarten at Eibar in Gipuzkoa, Spain (via yatzer). More »
French designer Philippe Starck has designed a range of cashmere garments for Italian brand Ballantyne. More »
London architects Yes We Can Architecture have sent images of a project they built last summer out of hula hoops. More »
Dezeen and the NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft gallery are offering five readers the chance to each win a copy of UFO: Blurring the boundaries between art and design, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name. More »
Architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us images of a school in Lisbon, Portugal, recently modernised by Portuguese studio Bak Gordon Arquitectos. More »
Royal College of Art graduate Min-Kyu Choi has designed a folding version of the standard UK electrical plug. Update 17/03/2010: Folding Plug has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award 2010. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
The Drop Series by graduate designer Olivia Decaris is a range of tent-like structures that can be raised and lowered over tables, beds and desks. More »
German architects Gerd Priebe have completed a new office situated in the existing complex of medical equipment developers Saegeling Medizintechnik in Heidenau, Germany. More »
Mini Capsule Hotel, a six-bed dorm by Atelier Van Lieshout, featured in an outdoor installation called Never-EverLand at Design Miami/Basel earlier this month. More »
Royal College of Art graduate Thomas Thwaites has built a working toaster from scratch, extracting raw materials and processing them himself in an attempt to replicate a mass-produced toaster he bought in a shop for less than £5.00. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »