Dezeen Wire: the London 2012 Olympic Torch by east London designers BarberOsgerby has been awarded as Design of the Year in a ceremony at the Design Museum in London tonight. More »
Monthly archives: April 2012
London 2012 Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby
Chapel of Rest in Graz by
Hofrichter-Ritter Architekten
Overlapping walls of curving concrete encase this funeral chapel in Graz by Austrian architects Hofrichter-Ritter. More »
Juliet by Benjamin Hubert for Poltrona Frau
Milan 2012: this armchair with a pleated leather seat by London designer Benjamin Hubert was inspired by sleeves with puffed shoulders on Italian Renaissance clothing. More »
House with Eaves and an Attic
by ON design
The huge tiled roof that wraps around this Tokyo house integrates arched windows and openings for tree branches. More »
Broom Chair by Philippe Starck for Emeco
This stacking chair by French designer Philippe Starck is made of discarded material found in lumber factories and industrial plastic plants. More »
"Iraq aims to revive Baghdad's 'lost'
Le Corbusier building" - Yahoo! News
Dezeen Wire: a gymnasium in Baghdad that was designed by Le Corbusier in 1957 is to be restored - Yahoo! News
Completed in 1965 under Saddam Hussein, years after the iconic architect's death, the Baghdad Gymnasium has fallen into disrepair following its occupation by American soldiers.
Rocky by Marc Newson for Magis
Milan 2012: Australian designer Marc Newson presented this child's rocking horse for Italian brand Magis at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. More »
House Bernheimbeuk by Architecten
De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Wooden sticks shield the facades of this house in Belgium by Ghent studio Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, while a tree bursts through the roof. More »
"From handicraft to digicraft: Milan's furniture fair
looks to the future" - Guardian
Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk writes about the focus on alternative means of production, open-source design and crowd-funding that permeated this year's Milan furniture fair in his column for the Guardian newspaper.
McGuirk talked to Dezeen about these issues when he popped into Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST last week - watch the interview in our daily show from Milan here.
We also spoke to editor-in-chief of Domus magazine Joseph Grima about The Future in the Making show he curated that's all about collaboration, open design, crowd-sourcing and hacking, and interviewed curator Beatrice Galilee at Hacked Lab where workshops, demonstrations and happenings took over the city's most famous department store all week.
Designed in Hackney: Designs of the Year
exhibition by Michael Marriott
Designed in Hackney: Hoxton-based designer Michael Marriott created a landscape of cardboard tubes to display items on show at this year's Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum. The winning entries for each category will be revealed at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening. More »
Heidelberg Castle Visitor Centre
by Max Dudler
We love projects that involve castles. Windows are set within two-metre-deep recesses in the stone walls of this castle visitor centre in southwest Germany by Swiss architect Max Dudler. More »
Gentle by Front for Porro
Devil Amongst the Tailors
by Aberrant Architecture
Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. More »
Skinspace
by AND
Dezeen archive: bubbles
Dezeen archive: this week in Milan a lamp that blows bubbles attracted a lot of attention, so we've grouped together all of our stories about bubbles made from soap, plastic or otherwise. See all the stories »