Spanish designer Antoni Arola has created a series of stackable tables, shelves and surfaces with light flooding from their undersides. More »
Monthly archives: January 2012
BlancoWhite by Estudi Arola
Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan
The walls of this house in Australia by architects McBride Charles Ryan have origami-like facets and folds. More »
Guggenheim Museum
is viable for Helsinki
Dezeen Wire: the results of a study carried out by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on behalf of the City of Helsinki has revealed that it would be feasible to construct a new Guggenheim Museum in Finland.
The report proposes that the museum would be built on the waterfront and would have a stong focus on architecture and design, as well as art. More »
Design Museum announce shortlist
for Designs of the Year 2012
Dezeen Wire: the Design Museum in London have announced the projects nominated for the Designs of the Year 2012, including a device for detonating landmines, a machine that uses desert sand to print glass and a cinema under a motorway. See the full shortlist below. More »
Mirror House by MLRP
Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors. More »
AIA Coffee & Restaurant by Inês Aia
Portuguese designer Inês Aia has inserted a coffee shop and restaurant inside a nineteenth century townhouse in Porto (photographs by José Campos). More »
Capital headphones by KiBiSi for AIAIAI
The Mantes-la-Jolie Water Sports Centre
by Agence Search
French architects Agence Search have completed a water-sports centre beside the Seine with a roof of undulating waves. More »
Competition: five Urban Gridded Notebooks
to be won
Competition: we've teamed up with Brooklyn firm Aminimal Studio to give away five copies of their sketchbooks printed with a city grid on each page. More »
Static Bubbles by Nendo for
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Japanese designers Nendo will present three new projects for Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris next week, including this series of lamps, vases, bowls and tables made by heating agricultural nets. More »
Studio Job forced to alter plans
for Holocaust-themed fence
Dezeen Wire: artists Studio Job have been forced to amend controversial designs for a fence to a private estate that intentionally resembles the gates of a Nazi concentration camp where over 50,000 people died during World War II - Co.Design
The is the second set of contentious proposals to come from the Netherlands in recent months, following proposals by architects MVRDV for skyscrapers that look like the exploding World Trade Centre on 9/11.
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Taltal Public Library by Murúa-Valenzuela
Daylight floods into the reading rooms of this Chilean library though the high level windows of faceted ventilation stacks. More »
Single Family House in Kacergine
by Gintaras Balcytis
The yellow stone and white render walls of this house in the Lithuanian countryside curve around to form a semicircle. More »
Pro by Konstantin Grcic
Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic will present this chair for German manufacturer Flötotto at trade show imm cologne in Germany next week. More »











