Australian architects Jolson have completed a house in Melbourne where cantilevering concrete slabs appear to balance on top of a bronze garden wall. More »
Monthly archives: July 2011
One year ago...
This time last year Dezeen readers were utterly outraged by a range of beer packaged inside dead animals. Apart from those who found it really, really funny... More »
Mobile Police Station by Gesamtkonzept
Police guarding the Turkish Consulate in Hanover have upgraded their VW bus for a tiny mobile office. More »
The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
by Daniel Libeskind
New York architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a media centre for the City University of Hong Kong. More »
Alter Store by 3Gatti Architecture Studio
Naked mannequins sit on the walls and ceiling of this MC Escher-inspired clothes store in Shanghai. More »
Designers pay tribute
to Design Week editor
Dezeen Wire: in this movie designers pay tribute to Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight, following the magazine's final printed publication last month - see our earlier story. More »
This week on Dezeen
Introducing a new feature on Dezeen: here's a roundup of the top stories, news, comments and movies this week. More »
Stade Bordeaux Atlantique
by Herzog & de Meuron
Dreamhost offices by Studio O+A
Having designed offices for Facebook and AOL, San Francisco designers Studio O+A have completed the headquarters of another internet company in California - this time web hosts Dreamhost. More »
Sandal Magna Community Primary School
by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects designed this school in Wakefield, England, using red bricks and industrial building shapes that reflect the surrounding vernacular. More »
Multi-storey Temporary Housing
by Shigeru Ban Architects
Shigeru Ban Architects have designed temporary homes for Japanese disaster victims inside a chequerboard of stacked shipping containers. More »
Alice by
Rachel Boxnboim
Israeli designer Rachel Boxnboim has cast a ceramic tea service inside fabric moulds. More »
Dezeen Screen: Indian Ocean Tsunami
Memorial by Carmody Groarke
Dezeen Screen: here's a movie by photographer Luke Hayes that shows the making of Carmody Groarke's Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial, which was quarried in France installed outside London’s Natural History Museum. Watch the movie »
"Little overall change in confidence levels"
- RIBA Future Trends Survey
Dezeen Wire: the latest Future Trends Survey by the Royal Institute of British Architects reports little change confidence levels among UK architects in the last two months. More »
Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre
by GMP Architekten
German architects GMP Architekten designed three stadiums for the World Aquatics Championships currently taking place in Shanghai. More »