Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorn strikes a blow against the current trend for naming products with confusing, forgettable or misleading monikers. More »
Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jay Merrick has praised the £22 million extension of Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama by BFLS Architects, explaining that the spaces perform functionally as well as succeeding in “generating an atmosphere that can only be described as happening.” More »
Dezeen Wire: The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains that the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond for next year’s Olympics in London, has been an easy target for jokes but that it demonstrates Britain’s manufacturing capabilities and says it “may even effect buildings of the future just as the Eiffel Tower and the Crystal Palace did” - The Guardian
Qubique 2011: this light by German collective llot llov can be adjusted by hooking the shade onto one of a string of twenty turned wooden balls. More »
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This top-heavy house by Japanese architect Kota Mizuishi overlooks a river in west Tokyo. More »
The Temporium 2011: we’re now accepting applications to take part in The Temporium, our pop-up design store in London this Christmas. More »
Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform, Estonian designer Evelin Kasikov talks about her CMYK embroidery, a series of hand-made prints that replace inks with thread. Watch the movie »
Polygonal timber plates give this pavilion at the University of Stuttgart a skeleton like a sea urchin’s. More »
A rounded wall of recycled clay tiles converges with walls of white bricks at this village house in Sussex, England. More »
Imagine waking up in a glass bedroom by the waterside on a remote Finnish island. More »
Dezeen archive: this week we showcased a ring of trees that’s forced to grow into a building (top left) and a movie featuring people dressed as trees, so our latest archive compiles all our stories about things that are made of or disguised as trees. See all the stories »
A slatted timber concert hall bulges through the glass atrium walls of this performing arts college in Cardiff by London studio BFLS. More »
Dutch Design Week 2011: Philips Design in Eindhoven present a conceptual self-sufficient home that converts sewage and rubbish into power. More »
This time last year Kengo Kuma was announced as the architect of the V&A’s new museum in Dundee and Foster + Partners Corten-clad Faustino winery rose from the earth in Spain. More »