Slideshow: a mysterious orange door on a suburban São Paulo street leads to a dream house and gardens designed by architect Isay Weinfeld. More »
Monthly archives: June 2012
Casa Grecia
The Zebra Crossing Project
by Eduard Čehovin
This pedestrian crossing in Serbia jumbles up the usual arrangement of black and white stripes. More »
Lasso Shoes by Gaspard Tiné-Berès
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Gaspard Tiné-Berès has designed slippers made from just one piece of felt and a shoelace (+ movie). More »
Dezeen Mail #106
This week's issue of Dezeen Mail includes seats made of hair and pots made of radioactive soil plus Italian designers Formafantasma talking about their work with molten lava, flour and insect excrement.
There’re also new jobs, interviews and music plus details of our next pop-up store.
Punggol Promenade
by LOOK Architects
Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). More »
Call for entries to Ventura Interieur
at Biennale Interieur 2012
Dezeen Wire: design show Biennale Interieur 2012 will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20 to 28 October 2012 and Dutch company Organisation in Design is calling for entries to Ventura Interieur, a city-wide satellite program of shows in collaboration with the biennale. More »
Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree
at Clerkenwell Design Week
Movie: British designer Ross Lovegrove talks to Dezeen about the tree-like solar-powered street lights he brought to St John's Square for Clerkenwell Design Week. More »
Iris by Mimi Zou
at Show RCA 2012
This eye-tracking camera by Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou is controlled by blinking and squinting – and even recognises your friends when it looks into their eyes (+ movie). More »
Black Lodge by
Jägnefält Milton
Tourists to a remote Swedish island will soon be able to abandon the hotel rooms of a luxury resort to sleep inside triangular huts on a deserted beach. More »
2012 RIBA Awards winners announced
The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 59 winners of this year’s RIBA Awards, including projects by David Chipperfield, Foster + Partners and OMA. More »
MÉCA by BIG and
FREAKS freearchitects
Danish architects BIG and French studio FREAKS freearchitects have designed a cultural centre for Bordeaux with a huge stage in its middle. More »
Dezeen Music Project: Lift it Up
by Solar Lion
New York artist Solar Lion has sent us this preview of a new track he's working on for his forthcoming EP. Like previous Solar Lion tracks we've featured on Dezeen Music Project, Lift it Up is a fusion of different genres, with modern US dubstep sounds underpinned by the prominent upbeat of a more old-school dub rhythm.
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The Materiality of a Natural Disaster
by Hilda Hellström at Show RCA 2012
Our coverage of the Royal College of Art graduate show begins with these food storage jars made of radioactive earth from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster area in Japan. More »
New Designers 2012
Dezeen promotion: London graduate exhibition New Designers 2012 will showcase the work of over 3500 graduate designers from 27 to 30 June and 4 to 7 July, and Dezeen readers receive a special discount on tickets to attend the show. More »
Coming soon... Dezeen Super Store
Coming to London this summer? Visit us at our pop-up watch store and design emporium Dezeen Super Store, which opens at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 on 30 June and stays open throughout the Olympic Games and the London Design Festival until 30 September. More »





