Here are the first official photographs of Wendy, the giant blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture that has been installed in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York (+ slideshow). More »
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This week on Dezeen we've featured a drive-through airport, a report on the next industrial revolution and two ways to tackle cancer. More »
elBulli Pavilion by
Rodero Beggiao Architects
This mobile pavilion for a travelling chef by Barcelona studio Rodero Beggiao Architects will comprise two wedge-shaped modules that can be reconfigured to suit each new home. More »
Typefaces by Wim Crouwel
for The Foundry
Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel has created two new typefaces for London type company The Foundry, based on his work for exhibition catalogues and posters from the 1960s and 1970s. More »
Oliver Wainwright joins the Guardian
as architecture and design critic
Dezeen Wire: journalist Oliver Wainwright has revealed on Twitter that he will be the new architecture and design critic at UK newspaper the Guardian.
Wainwright, who is currently the features editor at UK architecture weekly Building Design, will take over from Jonathan Glancey, who left the role in February.
Parallel Architecture by James Thompson
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. More »
TED Prize winners
announced
Dezeen Wire: the first five winners of this year's TED Prize for urban innovation have been announced. Recipients include London design studio 00:/ for their project WikiHouse, which involves the construction of wooden houses from a downloaded kit of parts. Read our story about the project here.
This year, instead of going to individuals, the TED Prize was awarded to the concept of The City 2.0. Ten projects that improve urban life will each be given $10,000. Nominations for the next five winners are now being sought.
Chocolate Mill by Wieki Somers
at the Vitra Design Museum
Thin layers are gradually shaved away from a cylindrical block of chocolate to reveal the embedded geometric patterns in this installation by Dutch designer Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum (+ movie). More »
Ciel de Paris by
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has fitted out a restaurant at the top of the tallest skyscraper in central Paris. More »
Havøysund Tourist Route by
Reiulf Ramstad Architects
This snaking concrete ramp by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects winds down from a road to the beach along the edge of the Arctic Ocean. More »
Building by Earnest Studio
and Emilie Pallard
Earlier today we featured objects made of tarmac. Now here's some furniture made of bricks by designers Rachel Griffin of Earnest Studio in Rotterdam and Emilie Pallard of Eindhoven. More »
Hotel Topazz by BWM Architekten
und Partner and Michael Manzenreiter
Austrian architects BWM Architekten und Partner and Michael Manzenreiter have completed a hotel in central Vienna with big oval windows all over its brown mosaic facade. More »
Emirates Air Line by
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
A kilometre-long cable car designed by British architects Wilkinson Eyre has opened today over the River Thames in London. More »
Road Workers and White Liners
by Josh Bitelli
University of Brighton graduate Josh Bitelli has made a series of furniture and vases from asphalt and road-marking paint (+movie). More »
Dezeen Mail #107
The latest issue of our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter includes a drive-through airport, a house with built-in graffiti and an eye-tracking camera (above).
There’re also new jobs, competitions, interviews and music plus details of our next pop-up shop Dezeen Super Store, which opens on Saturday.