Dezeen Wire: British manufacturer Dyson has expressed disappointment about the lack of protection offered to British designers following the loss of a design rights case against Chinese-owned Vax, who Dyson claims have copied one of their popular models. More »
Monthly archives: October 2011
"We need to better protect British
Inside Out Furniture by Minale-Maeda
Dutch Design Week 2011: components for this furniture by Rotterdam designers Minale-Maeda can be downloaded, 3D-printed and assembled locally. More »
This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen we published analysis by Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi, which questioned whether there was a bias towards white males in our features. You can have your say on the gender and race issue by leaving comments at the end of the post. More »
Lil/Euralille Youth Centre By JDS Architects
JDS Architects have won a competition to design a youth centre for Lille, France. More »
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013
appoints new chief curator
Dezeen Wire: British curator and writer Beatrice Galilee has been named as the chief curator for the third edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which will take place between October 2013 and January 2014. More »
Iyad Alsaka on OMA
and tourism in the Libyan desert
In this next movie from our series filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka explains how the firm charted the Libyan desert, having been asked how to best exploit it for tourism. More »
Private house in Tallinn by KAMP Arhitektid
Desert Storm by Nir Meiri
Marc Newson wins Lucky Strike
Designer Award 2011
Dezeen Wire: Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has been announced as the recipient of the Lucky Strike Designer Award 2011, which includes a prize of €50,000.
Drents Museum by Erick van Egeraat
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed an underground museum extension with a park on top in Assen, the Netherlands. More »
Iyad Alsaka on OMA,
the Middle East and North Africa
In this interview from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka talks about the firm's presence in Arab countries, starting with a 2007 exhibition about the Gulf Region and leading up to their current projects in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. More »
"Frank Gehry turns to Asia for architecture
projects as U.S. growth slows"- Bloomberg
Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has confirmed that he has submitted designs for projects in China and India as difficult economic conditions in the US have led to a decline in development - Bloomberg More »
Elias & Son tables by llot llov
2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize ceremony
to be held in China
Dezeen Wire: the ceremony for next year's Pritzker Prize for architecture will take place in Beijing, the first time the ceremony has ever been held in China. More »
Carlos Santamaría Centre by JAAM
Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre. More »






