News: the two temporary wing-like seating stands have been removed from Zaha Hadid's Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Park, meaning the building can be seen for the first time as it was originally designed. More »
Wings removed from Zaha Hadid's
Onn stand at Craft Trend Fair Seoul
by VOID planning
South Korean studio VOID planning used handmade paper and gravel to create the appearance of a misty landscape for this exhibition stand at a craft fair in Seoul (+ slideshow). More »
MuCEM by Rudy Ricciotti
photographed by Edmund Sumner
Photographer Edmund Sumner has revealed initial images of the filigree-clad Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM) by architect Rudy Ricciotti, which is set to open next month on Marseille's waterfront (+ slideshow). More »
Perch chair by
Bradley Ferrada
New York designer Bradley Ferrada presented an elongated chair with a faceted back at NYCxDESIGN this week. More »
Museum for Architectural Drawing
by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov
Architectural sketches and motifs are etched across the concrete walls of the Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin by Russian architecture collective SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. More »
Tied-Up Pendant Lamp
by Vitamin
Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: twenty-six cable ties make up this pendant lamp that London studio Vitamin is exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week. More »
Maker Faire Africa Workshop
at Afrofuture
Visitors to the Afrofuture exhibition in Milan built light-up glasses from recycled materials at a workshop organised by Maker Faire Africa (+ movie). More »
8Kumo
by TANK
Unfinished concrete is combined with exposed plywood in this Tokyo apartment renovated by Japanese architecture firm TANK (+ slideshow) More »
Mingus by Cecilie Manz
for Lightyears
Copenhagen designer Cecilie Manz has created a collection of aluminium lampshades with softly angled edges for Danish brand Lightyears. More »
Hostel in Kyonan by
Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
Five wooden cabins fan out around a site on Tokyo Bay to form this capsule accommodation by Japanese office Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects. More »
Engineering Temporality chandelier
by Studio Markunpoika
Steel rings were moulded around a wooden chandelier before it was burnt away, leaving this latest piece in a collection of disintegrated furniture by Amsterdam-based Studio Markunpoika. More »
Professional Cooking School in
Ancient Slaughterhouse by Sol89
Spanish architecture studio Sol89 has converted a former slaughterhouse in the historic town of Medina-Sidonia into a school for training chefs (+ slideshow). More »
Houses in Molenplein by
Tony Fretton Architects
London firm Tony Fretton has sandwiched two rows of brick houses between a pair of canals in the town of Den Helder in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More »
"Young designers have no grasp
of design history"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan last month, MINI head of design Anders Warming discusses the design of the new MINI Paceman and design journalist and curator Kieran Long gives us his thoughts on how the current generation of designers compares to the great masters. More »
Whitney Graphic Identity
by Experimental Jetset
Dutch graphics studio Experimental Jetset has redesigned the logo for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York as a slender W that changes shape to respond to its setting (+ movie). More »
