Monthly archives: December 2011

This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen

This week MVRDV caused a commotion by designing two towers engulfed in a pixellated cloud that put readers in mind of the World Trade Centre’s destruction on September 11. Meanwhile UNStudio unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade.  More »

50 projects_25 objects + 25 spaces by Nendo

Nendo's solo exhibition at AXIS Gallery

Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed at the AXIS Gallery in Tokyo, Japanese studio Nendo exhibit a selection of their projects through a wall of stacked polycarbonate sheets. Viewed through this transparent facade, Nendo’s designs become pixelated abstractions which vary as visitors move around the exhibit. Watch the movie »

Farrells release alternative proposals
for Battersea Power Station


Dezeen Wire:
British architect Terry Farrell has unveiled conceptual proposals to convert London’s Battersea Power Station into a park, which oppose existing plans for a mixed-used development by New York architect Rafael Viñoly. More »

V01 LED now available at Dezeen Watch Store

V01 LED

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest watch by Swedish designer David Ericsson for VOID, the V01 LED, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and you can also try one on before Christmas at our pop-up The Temporium, where readers get 10% discount on all Dezeen Watch Store products. More »

Tom Dixon to launch MOST
at Milan 2012


Dezeen Wire:
British designer Tom Dixon has partnered with Ambra Medda and Martina Mondadori to announce the launch of MOST, a new centre of activity at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next April. More »

“Entering the era of the megatall”
- the 20 tallest buildings by 2020


Dezeen Wire:
the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago have published a report predicting the 20 tallest buildings in the world by the year 2020, including eight over 600 metres high. Read the full online report here. More »