One year ago…
This time last year Dezeen featured a collection of 3D-printed dresses followed by clothing that becomes transparent when approached. More »
Monthly archives: August 2011
R-House by Budi Pradono
Cooling pools of water and trees line corridors and rooms inside an Indonesian house by architects Budi Pradono. More »
This week on Dezeen
Our most popular story this week featured a steel-plated house with a drawbridge-like flap that one reader thought might come in useful in a zombie apocalypse. Other hotly debated stories included a Mumbai office block sandwiched between a corporate complex and a slum and a leaning house with a tree growing inside. More »
House on Zaru Street by Open AD
These twin residences in Riga, Latvia, mirror one another exactly, except that one is clad in timber and the other in blackened steel. More »
Good ideas glow in the dark by Bruketa&Žinić
and Brigada
Croatian designers Bruketa&Žinić have created a book that can only be identified in the dark. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » More »
Marttiini shop by Suunnittelutoimisto Amerikka
Leather-bound blades displayed against chunky wooden blocks adorn the walls of a Finnish knife shop in Helsinki by designers Suunnittelutoimisto Amerikka. More »
House at Alibag by Malik Architecture
This jumbled house in India features an elevated steel tunnel, bridged corridors and a rooftop swimming pool on stilts. More »
Max & Co by Duccio Grassi Architects
Garments hidden behind semi-circular screens in a Hong Kong outlet can be glimpsed through jagged perforations. More »
PhotoGraphy by ShiKai Tseng
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate ShiKai Tseng has decorated a range of vases by covering them in photo-sensitive solution then exposing them inside pinhole cameras. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » More »
Pressedleathershoe by Marloes ten Bhömer
These shoes by Dutch footwear designer Marloes ten Bhömer are pressed from three pieces of leather. More »
BMW Guggenheim Lab by Atelier Bow-Wow
The first-ever building to have a carbon fibre structure is a mobile studio-cum-stage by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow, which just opened in New York. More »
Competition: nine Rigolo notebooks
by Denis Guidone to be won
Competition: we’ve teamed up with Italian designer Denis Guidone to give away nine of his Rigolo notebooks with slanted and squiggly ruled pages. More »
Domus Technica by Iotti + Pavarani
A translucent training centre in northern Italy has earned architects Iotti + Pavarani the Renzo Piano Foundation prize for the best Italian practice under 40. More »
New Holland Island by Work AC
New York architects Work AC have won a competition to design a cultural hub on a St Petersburg island that has been closed to the public for over 300 years. Update: 10/08/11: watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. More »
Blickfang designworkshop: designers
In this second movie filmed by Dezeen at the Blickfang designworkshop in Vienna last month, young designers Yi-Cong Lu (above), Hanna Emelie Ernsting and Only ET Will Judge Me talk about what they have learned. Watch the movie »