Monthly archives: August 2011

This week on Dezeen

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 »

Good ideas glow in the dark by Bruketa&Žinić
and Brigada

Good ideas glow in the dark by Bruketa Zinic 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 »

PhotoGraphy by ShiKai Tseng

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 »

Competition: nine Rigolo notebooks
by Denis Guidone to be won

Rigolo notebooks by Denis Guidone

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 »

New Holland Island by Work AC

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 ScreenMore »

Blickfang designworkshop: designers

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 »