The High Line Section 2 in New York (top left) and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (bottom left) were among our most popular stories this month so here’s a roundup of our ten most-clicked stories about parks and gardens from the Dezeen archives. More »
Show RCA 2011: coded patterns on this beaded dress by Royal College of Art graduate Thorunn Arnadottir feed information to smart phones when photographed. More »
This is timely, given the UK public sector workers’ strike today: London-based designer Eldina Begic has unveiled a collection of women’s clothes inspired by socialist workwear. More »
Beneath a wide skylight, a white spiralling staircase descends the three storeys of this high school in Lille by French architects Tank. More »
Dezeen Wire: co-founder of London’s Design Museum Terence Conran has donated a cash gift of £7.5 million towards developing the museum’s new home in south London. More »
Dezeen Screen: this movie by Royal College of Art graduate Markus Kayser shows his Solar Sinter 3D-printing machine at work in the desert, making glass objects by melting sand with sunlight. Watch the movie »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with British designer Michael Young to give away five signed copies of his new book that chronicles his time working in China. More »
Scottish architects Page\Park have completed a centre for blinded sailors, soldiers and airmen in Wilkieston, Scotland. More »
Paris landscape designers TN Plus and architects Beckmann N’Thépe have won a competition to design a zoological park on a series of artificial islands for the outskirts of St Petersburg. More »
Dezeen Screen: in this movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma talks about her book PIG 05049, in which she traced and catalogued all the products derived from a single animal. Watch the movie »
Hats by Japanese milliner Akio Hirata appear to float between the floor and ceiling in this installation by Japanese designers Nendo. More »
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Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up has opened at 55 Neal Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in London. Update: the store will now be open for an extra week, until Saturday 16 July. More »
The asphalt surface of a car park extends inside this cafe in Shizuoka, Japan, by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office. More »
Dezeen Wire: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have announced 25 new additions to the World Heritage List, including the Fagus Factory by Walter Gropius as reported yesterday, but deferred an application for the inclusion of 19 buildings by Modernist architect Le Corbusier, referring the decision to the next committee meeting.