A Small Tobacco Shop by Avehideshi Architects
and Associates
Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this one-person house with a tobacco shop on the ground floor in Osaka, Japan. More »
Monthly archives: August 2010
A Small Tobacco Shop by Avehideshi Architects
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents:
Benjamin Hubert
DezeenTV: young British designer Benjamin Hubert is next in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, speaking about working with eccentric craftsmen, the functional beauty of everyday objects and the happy accident that kick-started his career. More »
Architecture-inspired business cards
by Vistaprint.com
Dezeen promotion: business stationery brand Vistaprint are offering Dezeen readers the chance to order 500 business cards for just £5. More »
Wine & Bar by Aurélien Barbry
for Normann Copenhagen
Designer Aurélien Barbry of Denmark has created a collection of cork stoppers for design brand Normann Copenhagen. More »
London Housing Design Guide published
by Mayor of London
Dezeenwire: the Mayor of London has published a guide containing 90 standards for new housing in London - London Evening Standard
The new London Housing Design Guide can be downloaded here.
Fourth Plinth proposals unveiled
for Trafalgar Square
Six shortlisted proposals for the next art installation atop the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square have been unveiled today, including a giant blue cockerel, a cash machine that operates a pipe organ and an enormous model of a battenberg cake (above). More »
Skycourt by Keiji Ashizawa Design
This renovation of a house in Tokyo by Keiji Ashizawa Design involved creating a courtyard through the upper storeys. More »
UdK Bookshop 2010 by Dalia Butvidaite,
Leonard Steidle and Johannes Drechsler
This stepped cardboard installation was designed and built by Berlin University of Arts students to display their own work and meandered around a gallery at their summer show. More »
House in Minamimachi 3 by Suppose Design Office
This house in Hiroshima by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office is surrounded by an offset concrete shell to create a series of triangular terraces between the inner and outer walls. More »
Dezeenmail #56
We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here.
Periscope Camera by Yaniv Berg
Here’s another conceptual project from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Yaniv Berg (see his coffee machine in our earlier story), this time a digital SLR camera where the lens and body are merged to form a kinked cylinder. More »
Kuokkala Church by Lassila Hirvilammi
and Luonti
Finnish architects Anssi Lassila and Teemu Hirvilammi of Lassila Hirvilammi with Jani Jansson of Luonti have completed this slate-clad church with a separate steeple in Jyväskylä, Finland. More »
Great Camp Collection by Paul Loebach
American designer Paul Loebach created this collection of rustic furniture in reference to the country cabins erected in nineteenth-century Adirondack, New York. More »
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents:
GamFratesi
DezeenTV: Copenhagen designers Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi are the next guests in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, talking us through some of their influences including Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi and the importance of craft in their work. More »
“European architects positive about possibilities
of prefab” – Arch-Vision
Dezeenwire: European architects are becoming more enthusiastic about using prefabricated elements according to a report by Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision. See press release below. More »