One year ago…
One year ago Dezeen readers looked ahead to the apocalypse, when an armoured cabin might come in handy, while Frank Gehry unveiled controversial designs for a business school with a crumpled-up facade. More »
One year ago Dezeen readers looked ahead to the apocalypse, when an armoured cabin might come in handy, while Frank Gehry unveiled controversial designs for a business school with a crumpled-up facade. More »
Dezeen Wire: architect Steven Holl has been named as the winner of this year’s AIA Gold Medal. See all our stories about his work here. More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The Temporium 2011: make your Christmas cards and envelopes from any paper with this rubber stamp by British designer Sebastian Bergne, available at our Christmas shop The Temporium. More »
German architects Christ Christ have added box-like rooms and an outdoor cinema to the roof of a house in Wiesbaden. More »
Dezeen in Israel: this chair by designer Ezri Tarazi is formed when a concrete-filled mannequin is dropped onto it from above. More »
Faceted metal plates surround cave-like rooms and a winding mezzanine at the new Amsterdam headquarters for drinks brand Red Bull. More »
Dezeen Wire: in this movie filmed by cultural collective Pacific Standard Time, rapper Ice Cube explains his love of architect and how the work of renowned architects Charles and Ray Eames inspires him. More »
Dutch designer Dik Scheepers mixed discarded paper with cement to cast this series of furniture. More »
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 »
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 »
Dutch architects MVRDV have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul, Korea, that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. More »