London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of a collection of furniture and lighting by industrial designer Benjamin Hubert for Portuguese brand De La Espada, presented at the Tramshed during the London Design Festival. More »
Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn dicusses the difficulty in accurately defining design, suggesting that more “open” design processes mean anyone can claim to be a designer - The New York Times
Dezeen Wire: here is a roundup of the critics’ reactions to Zaha Hadid Architects scooping the RIBA Stirling Prize for the second consecutive year with their design for a school in south London. More »
Dezeen Space: Glasgow designer Fraser Ross presents his plant-like LED lamps, trapped under bell jars, which react to the sound and movement of onlookers at Dezeen Platform today. More »
Light glitters through thousands of tiny perforations in the bumpy steel exterior of a railway control centre in Spain. More »
Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev have completed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken-up hull of a boat. More »
Dezeen Space: Ariane Prin brings her pencil factory to Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More »
A glistening aluminium canopy undulates above the heads of waiting passengers at a bus station in Slough, England. More »
Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. More »
French studio Explorations Architecture have completed a social housing block beside one of the narrowest streets in Paris. More »
Dezeen Wire: Vienna Design Week is underway and Dezeen are covering the festival live from Vienna. Highlights include a machine that draws Spirograph-style patterns in quartz sand by Philippe Malouin, a collaboration between Tomas Alonso and one of the city’s oldest silver companies and a wooden treehouse by Konstantin Schmolzer that’s constructed alongside the vertical garden inside Jean Nouvel’s Sofitel hotel. More »
Dezeen Space: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today More »
This time last year Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize for the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and David Chipperfield was announced as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. More »