Monthly archives: August 2011

Dezeen Screen: in this third movie that Dezeen filmed for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson of Wilson McWilliam Studio talks about current trends in garden and landscape design. Watch the movie »
Dezeen Wire: Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision reports that architects’ enthusiasm for using prefabricated elements has continued to increase since their report on prefab use in Europe this time last year. More »

Here are some new images of the Apple campus by architects Foster + Partners, to be built in Cupertino, California. More »

Following our earlier story about an apartment with the appearance of an elegant building site, here’s another renovated flat in Japan that appears to be unfinished. More »

Folding back these perforated screens reconfigures an apartment that’s combined with a dance and choreography studio near Paris. More »

Rainwater slides down into the central folds of a plunging roof at this Dallas house, draining into a collection tank for reuse. More »

A boomerang-shaped museum in Mexico is balanced on stilts and stabilised in the air by tensile cables, allowing it to bridge a road and cantilever over a lake. More »

Dezeen archive: following the riots in the UK this week and our popular recent story about a steel-plated house (bottom left), which one reader though might come in handy in a zombie apocalypse, we’ve compiled a selection of stories about bunkers and other fortified buildings. See all the stories »
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London designer Paul Cocksedge moulds discarded vinyl records into a range of amplifiers for smartphones. Update: see an interview with Cocksedge on Dezeen Screen.
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This time last year our most popular story featured electricity pylons shaped like giants striding across the Icelandic landscape. More »

Our most popular and most controversial story this week featured a redesign of the London tube map that’s more geographically accurate than the 1931 classic – read both sides of the argument and have your say here. More »

Dezeen Screen: in this second movie filmed by Dezeen for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson talks about successful collaborations between architects and garden designers, including The High Line in New York and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London (above). Watch the movie »

Competition: we’ve teamed up with London designer Max Lamb to give readers the chance to win one of five signed copies of his new book China Granite Project II. More »

Here are some more photographs of Zaha Hadid‘s recently completed aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, taken by UK photographers Hufton + Crow. More »

How might our homes change if they had to accommodate robots too? More »