This week OMA were in the news with the opening of a new exhibition of their work at the Barbican in London and the completion of their Maggie’s cancer caring centre in Glasgow. We were given an private guided tour of the exhibition by Rem Koolhaas and interviews with other OMA partners will appear soon on Dezeen Screen. More »
Dezeen Space: the inventors of Sugru are bringing their pop-up hack-station to Dezeen Space on Sunday 9 October to do a demo and giveaway of their plastic modelling clay. More »
Dezeen Wire: historians and campaigners are warning that the 358-year-old Taj Mahal near the city of Agra in northern India will collapse in two to five years if urgent action is not taken to maintain rotting wooden foundations - The Daily Mail
Dezeen Screen: in the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of the show. Watch the movie »
Dezeen Space: design graduate Clinton Sheldon brings a series of products made of components salvaged from the factory of British furniture company Ercol to our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More »
Designers Not Tom have created an installation where coloured dye rises by capillary action out of paint tins and along tree branches wrapped in wool. More »
Vienna Design Week 2011: a rotating arm deposits spirals of quartz sand on the showroom floor at crystal company Lobmeyr in Vienna this week, thanks to Canadian designer Philippe Malouin. More »
Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for an new international airport in Kuwait. More »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with Australian company Makedo to give away ten sets of their reusable connector system for creatively recycling waste materials. More »
Dezeen Watch Store: the Iconograph watch by Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger is now available in four new colours at Dezeen Watch Store. More »
Dezeen Wire: architect Norman Foster has paid tribute to Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, who has dies aged 56.
Foster + Partners are working on the new Apple campus to be built in Cupertino, California, and released images of the design just a week before Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple in August. Read Foster’s full statement below More »
Dezeen Wire: Organisation in Design are now accepting applications from designers and companies wishing to exhibit at Ventura Lambrate 2012 in Milan next April. More »
Dezeen Space: WRAP magazine launch their latest issue and two new product ranges at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More »
Dezeen Wire: Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple, has died aged 56 after a long battle with cancer. More »
Dezeen Wire: Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple, has died, the company has announced. He was 56. Apple’s homepage is today dedicated to a photo of Jobs (above) and, instead of product news, hosts a short statement which starts “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being”.
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