Dezeewire: Rowan Moore on the projects that didn’t make this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist - Observer

See also: our story announcing the RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist 2010

Dezeenwire: Angela Brady has been elected the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. See press release below. More »

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Dezeenwire: the Plastiki boat made entirely from plastic bottles (see our earlier story) has arrived in Sydney after a 130-day voyage across the Pacific from San Francisco. More information on the Plastiki blog.

See also: our story about the boat’s design.

Here’s another clock designed by Giha Woo and Shingoeun (see their clock with a battery for hands in our earlier story), this time with a single spiralling arm to indicate the time in different countries around the world. More »

Stuttgart photographer Zooey Braun has sent us his images of this corrugated house in Bavaria, designed by German firm SoHo Architektur. More »

Two batteries form the hands of this clock by designers Giha Woo and Shingoeun. More »

South Korean designer Soojin Kang has covered a range of second hand chairs in a patchwork of fabric. More »



London studio West Architecture refurbished the ground floor of this London office by dividing the lobby and meeting room with sliding wooden screens. More »

This observation tower by Munich office terrain:loenhart&mayr rises over the river Mur at the Austrian border with Slovenia. More »

Scottish brewery BrewDog have packaged their latest range of beers inside dead animals. More »

Design competition: there’s only one week left to enter our competition with Design Association in Japan to win free exhibition space at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition during Tokyo Designers Week 2010 from 29 October to 3 November. More details »

We’ve got together with Dutch architects MVRDV to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Green Dream – How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, written by The Why Factory foundation. More »

British studio Fletcher Crane Architects have won a competition to design a waterside office building on the river Aire in Leeds, UK. More »