Dezeen Magazine

Smiljan Radic Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2014

This week on Dezeen

This week Chilean architect Smiljan Radic was revealed as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week.

October is a smooth, chilled-out electronic track by UK producer Jo Noon.

Listen to more Dezeen Music Project tracks »

Model of the central pavilion at the Jardini for Rem Koolhaas' Venice Architecture Biennale 2014
Model of the central pavilion at the Giardini for Rem Koolhaas' Venice Architecture Biennale

Rem Koolhaas released more details about the Venice Architecture Biennale he is curating this year and Ikea launched a collection of products aimed at urban dwellers with tight space restrictions.

Sarah Slocum was attacked in a San Francisco bar for wearing her Google Glass headset
Sarah Slocum was attacked in a San Francisco bar for wearing her Google Glass headset

A woman was attacked in a San Francisco bar for wearing a Google Glass headset, while wearable technology designer Gadi Amit told Dezeen that future devices need to respond to our emotional needs.

Sou Fujimoto designs nature-inspired tower for Montpellier
Sou Fujimoto designs nature-inspired tower for Montpellier "modern follies" project

Sou Fujimoto unveiled plans for a pine cone-shaped tower with huge balconies in Montpellier and we posted MVRDV's mirrored bowl extension for a Rotterdam museum.

Landscape intervention by Jonas Dahlberg to honour Norwegian terrorist attack victims
Landscape intervention by Jonas Dahlberg to honour Norwegian terrorist attack victims

The winning design of a memorial to commemorate the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway was announced as a proposal to sever a strip of headland from the coastline near Oslo.

Cork-clad house by Contaminar Arquitectos features a shadow-filled swimming pool
Cork-clad house by Contaminar Arquitectos features a shadow-filled swimming pool

A cork-clad house in Portugal with a shallow indoor pool and cube-shaped home in Japan with small square windows dotted around its facades were both popular architecture stories this week.

Kichi Architectural Design completes cube-shaped House of Kubogaoka
Kichi Architectural Design completes cube-shaped House of Kubogaoka

More architecture | More interiors | More design | More news