This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio Factory Fifteen was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 2011 in the architectural film/animation category.Called The Simulation, it's the first movie in a two-part series called The Golden Age. More »
New Designers 2011: London Metropolitan University graduate Adrian Bergman has designed a modular retail display system that's only held together by rubber rings. More »
Dezeen Wire: Nicolai Ouroussoff, outgoing architecture critic at the New York Times, reviews the Central China Television building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas of OMA: "The forms are a reworking of classical perspective; the irregular structure is an attack on Modernist ideas about structural purity".
Read Ouroussoff's review | Read Dezeen's August 2008 story about the CCTV building More »
Dezeen promotion: furniture and lighting designers including Russel Pinch (above), La Dune and Diffuse will exhibit prototypes at trade show Decorex International in London from 25 to 28 September 2011. More »
Dezeen Watch Store (and our pop-up store at 55 Neal Street until 16 July) is now stocking Iconograph, the first watch by Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger. More »
Overlapping arches divide classrooms in this temporary school in Tokyo by Japanese architects Atelier SNS. More »
Dezeen Wire: the semi-detached suburban house that was home to writer JG Ballard for 49 years is for sale, the Independent reports. Ballard lived in the house in Shepperton, London until his death in 2009. The property is valued at around £320,000. The Independent
New Designers 2011: product design graduate Ben Fursdon has created the Broo-ver, a broom converted into a vacuum cleaner. More »
Dezeen Screen: this movie shows the making of the Rise for Japan poster by Milton Glaser, designer of the iconic I Love New York logo.
Rise for Japan is a fundraising project founded by New York artists to support Architecture for Humanity’s efforts to rebuild the Tohoku region of Japan, following its devastation by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March. Watch the movie »
Frank Gehry's residential skyscraper, New York by Gehry, is nearly complete. More »
Plants adapted to thrive in rocky crevices will take over the facade of this tower for Nantes by French architect Edouard François. More »
London Design Festival 2011: Dezeen is looking for 30 young and upcoming designers to showcase their work at Dezeen Space, a project we're hosting at a gallery in Shoreditch, London this autumn. More »
Dezeen Wire: Organisation in Design, the Dutch company behind Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan, are taking their concept to Berlin during new trade fair Qubique from 26 to 29 October. More »
New Designers 2011: Kingston University graduate Oscar Medley-Whitfield presented these benches that rely on each other for support at New Designers in London last week. More »
