Dutch studio MVRDV has given the new Oslo headquarters for Norwegian bank DNB a pixellated appearance by building a stack of brick and glass cubes (+ slideshow). More »
Monthly archives: December 2012
DNB Bank Headquarters
Transformations by Maarten de Ceulaer
for Fendi
Design Miami: Belgian designer Maarten de Ceulaer nailed bendy leather planks onto solid wood to create this installation of stripy furniture for Italian fashion house Fendi (+ slideshow). More »
Competition: five Colour of Popular
Music and Song prints to give away
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five prints by UK designers Dorothy that feature bands and songs with colours in their names next to corresponding hues on the colour wheel (+ slideshow). More »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
House M by AE5 partners
A grid of timber louvres screens either end of this house in Japan, which is the letter M in our daily A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House M »
Ovale cutlery by Ronan and Erwan
Bouroullec for Alessi
Product News: French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a collection of cutlery for Italian design brand Alessi. More »
Absolute Towers
by MAD
Chinese firm MAD has completed a pair of curvaceous twisted skyscrapers in the growing city of Mississauga, Canada (+ slideshow). More »
Royal College of Art Student Union Cafe
by Weston Surman & Deane
Three Royal College of Art architecture graduates have used stripped scaffolding boards and reclaimed parquet flooring to create a wooden cafe at the school's Battersea campus in south London (+ slideshow). More »
Vitsœ granted exclusive licence
to produce Dieter Rams furniture
Designersblock Department Store
at Interiors UK 2013
Dezeen promotion: Designersblock Department Store will showcase work by young designers and makers at Interiors UK 2013 in Birmingham next month, and registration is now open to attend the event. More »
Architecture "no longer interested in anything
but its own image"
Festina Lente bridge by Adnan Alagić,
Bojan Kanlić and Amila Hrustić
A looping bridge by three Bosnian product design students has been completed outside the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (+ slideshow). More »
Dressed collection
by Jens Praet
Design Miami: Belgian designer Jens Praet used bronze drapes cast from sheets of cloth to dress these pieces of brass furniture. More »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
l House by moomoo architects
This conceptual house would be wrapped entirely in a plastic insulating material normally used on roofs. Intended for Łódź in Poland, it's the lowercase letter l in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about l House »
Nakai House by
University of Colorado students
Eight architecture students from the University of Colorado have designed and built a cabin in the Utah desert for a Navajo woman (+ slideshow). More »
R18 Ultra Chair by Clemens Weisshaar
and Reed Kram
Design Miami: design duo Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram have used technology from the car-racing industry to develop a chair made by robots that weighs just 2.2 kilograms (+ movie). More »




