Monthly archives: October 2010

Featured architect: David Chipperfield is our featured architect at the moment, having just been announced as this year’s winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture (see our Dezeenwire story). Browse all Dezeen’s stories about him in this special category.
Featured architect: David Chipperfield
Above photograph is by Martin Godwin

Yves Béhar of San Francisco design firm fuseproject has designed an affordable family of office chair inspired by suspension bridges for Herman Miller. More »

This temporary pavilion with reflective purple scales that shimmer in the breeze has been installed in Beijing by New York architects SO-IL. More »

Frei + Saarinen Architects of Switzerland renovated this 100 year-old parish centre in Zurich by installing walls at all angles. More »

French architect Manuelle Gautrand has completed an extension to the Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut at Villeneuve d’Ascq in France. More »

Dutch firm Most Architecture have created this temporary office from wooden pallets for an Amsterdam advertising company. More »

Customers sit at large wooden frames in this hair salon by Japanese studio Three.Ball.Cascade in Chiba, Japan. More »

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Dezeenwire: British architect David Chipperfield is to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. See press release below.
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Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up opens next week at SuperDesign in London, where we’ll be showing the latest watches in our collection, including the Trapezoid series by Naoto Fukasawa for Issey Miyake (above). More »

This three-storey house in Ekoda, Tokyo, has undergone a renovation by Suppose Design Office to create six apartments, including the transformation of a rooftop conservatory into a bathroom. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

This mobile phone concept by London designer Patrick Hyland can be charged by the heat in your pocket. More »

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen is media partner for SuperDesign, an exhibition hosting international designers and galleries in London during the Frieze Art Fair next week from 14-17 October. More »

This multi-storey car park in Soissons, France, by Paris firm Jacques Ferrier Architectures has an undulating facade of vertical timbers. More »

Johnny Selman of San Francisco is designing a poster a day for 365 days based on a headline taken from the BBC News website. More »