Garcia D’Orta Secondary School by Bak Gordon
Narrow skylights create bands of light across the red bright ceiling of a sheltered school courtyard in Porto, Portugal. More »
Monthly archives: September 2011
Nakahouse by XTEN Architecture
The rooms of a black and white house in California lead out to a series of stepped terraces with a view of the famous Hollywood sign. More »
Wine Cellars for Vega-Sicilia by Salas Studio
Two refurbished wine cellars in Spain feature undulating oak ceilings and stainless steel trees. More »
Scaffolding Brut by Beta Tank
Berlin designers Beta Tank want to make scaffolding pretty. Designer Eyal Burstein has started out by casting a series of scaffolding joints in glazed porcelain with gold and platinum nuts and bolts. More »
Dezeen archive: caves
Dezeen archive: one of our most popular stories this week features a cafe where timber stalactites hang down from an undulating ceiling (top right), so we’ve compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about caves and grottoes. See all the stories »
Maison Beauvallon by Raphaëlle Segond
Stairs lead past lumpy cork-covered walls to a rooftop swimming pool at a house in the south of France by architect Raphaëlle Segond. More »
One year ago…
This time last year London company Hulger launched the Plumen 001 designer lightbulb, which went on to win this year’s Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award. More »
Prelude 01: a Dialogue at Depot Basel
Nine designers including Florian Hauswirth, Kaspar Hamacher and Max Lipsey furnished a grain-silo-turned-art-space in Basel in a five-day experimental workshop. More »
INDEX: Award winners 2011
Here are some images of the five winning projects at this year’s INDEX: Awards, including Hövding, an inflatable bicycle helmet (above). More »
Roundles by H2 Architecture
Continuing our special feature about swimming pools, here’s a timber pool house with limestone walls beside a farmhouse in Surrey, England. See a movie of the building on Dezeen Screen » More »
Broadway Malyan to design
world’s second tallest tower
Dezeen Wire: British architects Broadway Malyan have been appointed to design a 571 metre skyscraper in Istanbul that they claim will become the second tallest in the world when completed.
This week on Dezeen
This week Luzinterruptus installed an army of radioactive scarecrows at a German festival and we finished the summer by rounding up our top ten stories about swimming pools. More »
Forscherkindergarten Apfelbäumchen
by Winkens Architekten
German studio Winkens Architekten have completed a kindergarten in Berlin that has sheltered terraces at each end. More »
Brush Hooks by Dominic Wilcox
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Dominic Wilcox claims he meant to leave these paint brushes unwashed so they would harden into coat hooks. More »
“New Park Hill flats in Sheffield unveiled”
- BBC News
Dezeen Wire: new pictures reveal the interiors of two show apartments at Park Hill in Sheffield, England, a notorious 1960′s housing estate which is being overhauled by developers Urban Splash – BBC News