Monthly archives: October 2010

Following the popularity of our story about MVRDV’s Balancing Barn holiday home with a 15 meter cantilever (above, bottom left) we’ve compiled our most-read stories about cantilevered buildings for this month’s top ten. More »

Photographer Patrick Miara has sent us his photographs of this art centre in Les Herbiers by French architects Forma 6. More »

Japanese architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates have completed this house in Hiroshima, Japan, with one wall glazed in sliding panels that open onto a grassy courtyard. More »

Dezeen archive: Following our story earlier this week on Planning Korea’s bridge for Seoul incorporating a library and museum (read it here), we’ve gathered together a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives featuring brilliant bridges. See all the stories »
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Spanish architect Julio Barreno has added a zig-zag covered walkway to this school building in southern Spain in order to connect what were previously separate sides for boys and girls. More »
Dezeenwire: the RIBA in London have opposed a bid by the Prince’s Foundation to take over the design review role currently fulfilled by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), which is to close in the wake of last week’s government spending review. See press release below.
See also: CABE closed down in spending review
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Berlin designer Mark Braun presented a series of carafes engraved with images of lakes, glaciers and rivers of Austria for glass company Lobmeyr in Vienna earlier this month. More »

Designer Sammy Bikoulis has won the Triflow Future Talents competition to create a kitchen or bathroom tap with this design featuring three stacked coloured blocks. More »

Israeli firm Schwartz Besnosoff Architects have built this library for Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. More »

Stockholm architects Mats Edlund, Henrietta Palmer and Matts Ingman have designed this timber cabin as part of a camping site in Hudiksvall, Sweden. More »

This rubbish bag by Ahhaproject of Milan and Seoul spells out how much energy the user can generate with each bag of kitchen waste collected. More »

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New York graphic designer Cardon Webb collects fliers and hand-written notices from his neighbourhood and replaces them with his own re-designed versions. More »

New York studio Milev Architects have designed this range of jewellery and clothing made from rubber bands. More »

Vienna Design Week 2010: Austrian designer Rainer Mutsch has created a range of outdoor seating moulded from sheets of fiber cement. More »