Monthly archives: December 2011
Dezeen Wire: The Portland Public Service Building by Michael Graves & Associates has been added to the USA’s National Register of Historic Places. More »

Dezeen is looking for ten upcoming designers and brands to present their products at Home, a new design-led homewares and interiors trade show that takes place in London in January. More »

The Temporium: patterned paper planes crafted by a traditional printing press are behind the eighth window of our Advent calendar of products at The Temporium. Update: watch a movie of the planes being crafted » More »

Greek architects K-studio have completed a rustic pizzeria modelled on an Italian courtyard in the centre of Athens. More »

Dezeen promotion: the next Thailand International Furniture Fair will take place from 14 to 18 March 2012 in Bangkok. More »

A sci-fi animation in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced this evening. More »

Dezeen Screen: as part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri & Hu about the Waterhouse at South Bund, a hotel inside a former headquarters of the Japanese army, which won the overall award. Watch the movie »

The Temporium: today’s window in our Advent calendar of products at The Temporium features Papernomad‘s, biodegradable paper sleeves for electronic devices. More »
Dezeen Wire: Oscar-winning film maker Bruce Beresford will direct a forthcoming movie about iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright - The Hollywood Reporter
The film will be centred around the architect’s Wisconsin home Taliesin, after which the film is to be named.

Dutch architects UNStudio have unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. More »

Dezeen in Israel: devices that spy, measure, dance and eavesdrop have been added to an exhibition of digital and interactive design that has travelled to the Design Museum Holon. More »

A wooden plank extends through the walls of three rooms in this renovated Tokyo apartment by architects htmn. More »

Dezeen Screen: this timelapse movie shows how a group of Oporto University architecture graduates, who call themselves Dose, constructed a spiky temporary bar for a student festival using blue plastic tubes and cable ties. Watch the movie »

Here’s a selection of projects by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger, who was named as this year’s Royal Gold Medal recipient this morning. More »

The Temporium 2011: flutter your birds, spiders and peonies with Paperself‘s paper eyelashes, returning to our Christmas shop The Temporium for the second year running by popular demand. More »