Monthly archives: December 2011

The Portland Building by Michael Graves added
to National Register of Historic Places


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 at Home: designers and brands
wanted for new exhibition

Dezeen at Home

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 »

RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2011

Robots of Brixton by Kibwe Tavares

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 »

Inside awards: the Waterhouse at South Bund
by Neri & Hu

Inside awards: the Waterhouse at South Bund by Neri & Hu

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 »

Bruce Beresford to direct Frank Lloyd Wright
biopic Taliesin


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.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations
at the Design Museum Holon

Decode-Digital-Design-Sensations-at-the-Design-Museum

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 »

Dezeen Screen: Bluetube Bar by Dose

Bluetube Bar by Dose

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 »

Paper eyelashes by Paperself at The Temporium

Paper eyelashes by Paperself at The Temporium

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 »