Dezeen’s top ten: swimming pools
Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Centre was one of our most popular stories this month, so we’ve compiled a list of our top ten stories about swimming pools. More »
Monthly archives: August 2011
Pool on the slope by Jean-Baptiste Bouvet
Architect Jean-Baptiste Bouvet has completed a hillside swimming pool that steps down to a terrace overlooking the scenic French landscape. More »
Hawaii Wildlife Centre by Ruhl Walker Architects
Boston studio Ruhl Walker Architects have completed a wildlife recovery centre in Hawaii. More »
Pen Pal by Oscar Diaz for Doiy
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Oscar Diaz has redesigned the pen pot so there’s no need to tip pens all over the desk or jam your fingers down the side to retrieve a paper clip or pencil sharpener that’s slipped to the bottom. More »
Yountville Community Centre
by Siegel & Strain Architects
Fir trusses create triangles that meet in the middle of the ceiling at a community hall in California designed by Siegel & Strain Architects. More »
Angela Brady becomes
RIBA President
Dezeen Wire: Angela Brady will take over from Ruth Reed as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects tomorrow. Brady was elected in July 2010, as reported in Dezeen Wire last year. More »
Museum of Energy by Arquitecturia
Visitors enter a museum of energy near a nuclear power plant in Spain through a curved wall of light. More »
House F11 by (se)arch
Stuttgart architects (se)arch have completed a house in Germany with an exposed concrete base and cedar shingle-clad upper walls (photographs by Zooey Braun). More »
Radioactive Control by Luzinterruptus
An army of 100 scarecrows dressed in glowing decontamination suits kept a sinister vigil over the Dockville Festival in Hamburg earlier this month. More »
Zmianatematu by xm3
The timber stalactites of an undulating cave-like ceiling bear down around the bar of a coffee shop in Łódź, Poland. More »
Hidden Art
forced to close
Dezeen Wire: UK design organisation Hidden Art is to close at the end of September due to cuts in its funding. More »
Lightwood Chair by Jasper Morrison
London Design Festival 2011: British designer Jasper Morrison will show his Lightwood Chair for Japanese company Maruni as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival next month. More »
Ai Weiwei brands Beijing
as “a city of violence”
Dezeen Wire: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has described Beijing as a prison and a city of violence in an article published on the website of American magazine Newsweek.
The article was published despite Chinese authorities forbidding the artist from giving interviews, following his release in June from 81 days of detention.
Beached House by BKK Architects
Residents at this remote Australian lodge can step straight out of bed to the side of a long narrow outdoor pool. More »
Rethinking the Waiting Room by Fuelfor
Nobody likes hospital waiting rooms. Barcelona design agency Fuelfor have designed a series of conceptual improvements to make them a little more bearable. More »