Over 100 designers including Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and Michael Marriott will anonymously exhibit artworks drawn on a piece of A4 graph paper at Somerset House in London next week, before being sold in aid of a cancer charity. More »
Architects Plasma Studio of London, Beijing and Bolzano have designed this LED street lamp in collaboration with lighting company ewo. More »
Designer Sejoon Kim of South Korea has designed a clock where users have to feel the flexible face to reveal the time. More »
Here’s a house in Osaka, Japan, by Yoshihara McKee Architects of New York and Tokyo. More »
There’s a horse made of crystals hanging in fashion designer Stella McCartney‘s new Las Vegas store designed by London studio APA. More »
Dezeenwire: the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ think tank, Building Futures, have published a report predicting dramatic changes in architecture practice by the year 2025. More »
Crowd-sourcing design brand Made.com of London have launched these simple bikes with coloured wheel rims. More »
San Francisco designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has designed a product that allows users to control their TV from their iPhone. More »
Japanese studio Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates have completed this concrete family home in Hiroshima, Japan. More »
Design agency Continuum have created conceptual packaging for a single cigarette for smokers who are trying to quit. More »
Dezeen archive: following our popular story on House 77 by dIONISO LAB with its perforated aluminium shutters, this week (top right) we’ve compiled all the buildings from the Dezeen archive featuring shutters. See all the stories »
Car brand MINI present the Rocketman concept car at the International Geneva Motor Show, which opened yesterday. More »
Dezeenwire: the Kingkey Finance Tower by architects Farrells, the tallest tower in Shenzhen, China, topped out today. More details below. More »
Architects Ooze of Paris and Rotterdam extended this Rotterdam residence by wrapping a new faceted skin over the house’s existing collection of buildings and extensions. More »
Dezeenwire: architects Foster + Partners’ City Park proposal has been selected as the preferred option for the masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, beating designs by OMA and Rocco Design Architects.
The decision was announced today by the Board of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA).
See the announcement on the WKCDA site. See our earlier stories on the proposals by Foster + Partners, OMA and Rocco Design Architects.