Dezeen Screen: interview with Jaime Hayón
Dezeen Screen: while Dezeen prepares for the 2011 London Design Festival, here’s a previously unseen interview we filmed with Spanish designer Jaime Hayón during last year’s festival. Watch the movie »
Monthly archives: July 2011
Folding Stool by Jack Smith
Show RCA 2011: to continue our series of graduate projects from the Royal College of Art, here’s a stool by Jack Smith that collapses when its seat is lifted. More »
Neighbourhood Centre by Colboc Franzen
& Associés
Visitors can climb a staircase over the roof of this spiralling community centre in Lille by French architects Colboc Franzen & Associés. More »
P-Tree by Aandeboom
Unable to prevent revellers urinating against their trees, Roskilde Festival in Denmark installed tree-mounted urinals by Dutch designers Aandeboom. More »
Dezeen Screen: interview with Jens Martin Skibsted
Dezeen Screen: Danish designer Jens Martin Skibsted talks about his bicycle brand Biomega and the future of urban cycling in this previously unseen video filmed by Dezeen during the London Design Festival 2010. Watch the movie »
NSEPS by Silo
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduates Attua Aparicio and Oscar Wanless have invented a new manufacturing process that involves steaming polystyrene beads inside fabric moulds. More »
Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial
by Carmody Groarke
British architects Carmody Groarke have completed this granite monolith outside London’s Natural History Museum to commemorate victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. More »
New 202 Series by Uniform Wares
at Dezeen Watch Store
Dezeen Watch Store: the 202 Series of watches by Uniform Wares is available in new colours at Dezeen Watch Store, both online and in our Seven Dials pop-up at 55 Neal Street, London WC2 9PJ until 10 July. More »
From Here For Here by Ariane Prin
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Ariane Prin uses waste from college workshops as the raw material for her on-site pencil factory More »
Competition: five sets of The Play of Combinations
by Cibicworkshop to be won
Competition: we’ve teamed up with designers Cibicworkshop to give away five construction games based on iconic buildings by renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. More »
“New York Times names Michael Kimmelman to be new architecture critic” – Chicago Tribune
Dezeen Wire: The New York Times is set to name its art critic and columnist Michael Kimmelman as its new architecture critic, following the departure last month of Nicolai Ouroussoff – Chicago Tribune.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by Peter Zumthor
photographed by Hufton + Crow
Here are some more photographs of Peter Zumthor’s recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, taken by UK photographers Hufton + Crow. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Folly for a Flyover by Assemble
Non-profit organisation Assemble have constructed a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. More »
Torre Telefónica Diagonal ZeroZero by EMBA
Criss-crossing lengths of aluminium cover the glass facade of this Barcelona skyscraper by Spanish architects EMBA. More »
Jaguar E-Type Sculpture by Gerry Judah
This 28 metre-high steel sculpture of the Jaguar E-Type car was designed by Gerry Judah for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in Sussex, UK, last weekend. More »