Monthly archives: July 2011

Two of our most popular movies on Dezeen Screen this month featured a robot that wakes its owner then poos on the floor and rioting robots on the streets of London, so we’ve compiled Dezeen’s ten most popular stories about robots. More »

One piece of plywood furniture inside this Polish apartment encompasses a bed, bookshelf, nightstand and wardrobe. More »

This time last year Danish designers KiBiSi designed a flying car, Eindhoven duo BCXSY were dressed as cavemen in our top ten primitive designs and an ice cream laboratory opened in London. More »

Tiled surfaces, scientific apparatus and plastic curtains turn this Paris cafe into a coffee laboratory. More »

A roof terrace can be glimpsed between the metallic grey timber beams that surround a two-storey house near Riga, Latvia. More »

Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympics opened this week, exactly one year ahead of the opening ceremony, while new aerial photos of all the venues were released and the Olympic medal design failed to impress. See all our stories about the London 2012 Olympics here. More »

London studio VW+BS have designed an office building for Singapore that resembles a giant periscope. More »

In this interview filmed by Dezeen at the Tai Ping carpet showroom in London, Hong Kong designer Andre Fu talks about creating his new collection for the Chinese brand. Watch the movie »

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Page One Publishing to give away five copies of Jyanzi Kong’s new architecture book, Geometry of the Unconscious. More »

Japanese designers Nendo have combined a USB stick with a giant paperclip. More »

Billowing fabric mushrooms by New York designers Situ Studio have cropped up in the great hall of the Brooklyn Museum. More »
Dezeen Wire: with 30 Habitat stores in the hands of administrators, the Guardian’s Andy Beckett asks how this iconic British design retailer can be saved – Guardian

A seafront auditorium in southern Spain has concave walls that resemble the deflated cheeks of someone taking a deep breath (photographs by Julien Lanoo). More »
Dezeen Wire: the London 2012 Olympic medal design unveiled yesterday “fails to impress branding experts,” reports Sam Jones for the Guardian. More »

Seoul designer Jeongmi Lee has designed a conceptual domestic robot that steals your duvet in the morning and poos all over the floor. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »