If You Build it, They Will Come… by Ben Faga
Royal College of Art graduate Ben Faga is encouraging bees in London to swarm and set up new hives. More »
Monthly archives: July 2010
Mirante do Horto House by Flavio Castro
This house in São Paulo by Brazilian architect Flavio Castro consists of a cubic volume perched on two yellew beams that straddle the garage below. More »
Pushed Slab by MVRDV
Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled their design for an office building in Paris, where the middle section will appear broken and twisted open. More »
The Somerset House Book Stall System
by Fotis Evans
London Metropolitan University graduate Fotis Evans has designed this display system for the book shop at Somerset House in London. More »
Warrnambool Campus Building by Lyons
Australian firm Lyons’ new campus building for a college in Warrnambool, Australia, has a glazed façade made up of hexagonal apertures tilted down towards the street. More »
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents:
Tomoko Azumi
DezeenTV: for the third movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents Japanese designer Tomoko Azumi of t.n.a design studio shares with us her collection of vintage bicycles, her passion for traditional craft techniques and her love of timber. More »
Leather furniture by Tortie Hoare
Here are some more images of boiled leather furniture by Tortie Hoare, the winning project from New Designers Part 2 earlier this month (see our earlier story). More »
Competition: five Y-Grinders by DesignWright
for Joseph Joseph to be won
We’ve teamed up with kitchen brand Joseph Joseph to give away five Y-Grinder salt and pepper mills – worth £30 – designed by London studio DesignWright. More »
Ahoti by Studio Lama
A continuous grey metal bar winds across the wall of this boutique by Israeli designers Studio Lama. More »
Spin city: London’s Strata tower
- Guardian
Dezeenwire: Jonathan Glancey reviews London’s recently-opened Strata tower, the world’s first skyscraper with built-in wind turbines - Guardian
Earn/Urn by Neil Conley
Design graduate Neil Conley has made a series of funerary urns from reclaimed carbon fibre. More »
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
by Foreign Office Architects
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio, USA, have unveiled plans for a new museum building by London firm Foreign Office Architects. More »
The Vanishing Mosque by RUX Design
for Traffic
Manhattan studio RUX Design have won a competition to design a mosque for the UAE with their open-air plaza called The Vanishing Mosque. More »
Movie by Cristobal Palma: Coliseos by Giancarlo
Mazzanti Arquitectos and Felipe Mesa
DezeenTV: here’s architectural photographer Cristobal Palma‘s first movie, featuring the Coliseos sports centre in Medellín, Colombia, designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos and Felipe Mesa of Plan:B. More »
La Paz Nursing Home Garden
by Estudio Caballero Colón
This garden in Madrid was designed by new Spanish firm Estudio Caballero Colón for a nursing home. More »