Five years ago this week we published images of the six finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, including the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio. More »

Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. More »

Five years ago this week Dezeen arrived in Milan for the 2007 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we saw a lamp comprising a cluster of writhing human bodies and a vase made by bees. More »

Five years ago Dezeen was gaining momentum and we were pleased to have been named as one of the ten most popular architecture blogs in the world by eikongraphia.com. A couple of weeks ago we were named #01 in the Best Blogs list of top 50 design blogs. More »

Five years ago this week Herzog & de Meuron received planning permission for their extension to the Tate Modern gallery in London and construction began on Jean Nouvel's 100 11th Avenue development in New York. More »

Richard Rogers scooped the Pritzker Prize five years ago this week. More »

Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. More »

Five years ago this week a restaurant by Philippe Starck opened in Beijing filled with chandeliers and velvet, while Foster + Partners revealed plans for Moscow that involved replacing a famous communist landmark. More »

Five years ago this week, after just four months online, Dezeen already had a quarter of a million readers. We published our first story about a sex toy, as well as a globular building that Zaha Hadid had just designed for a square in Budapest. More »

Five years ago this week we chatted to Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana as they unveiled their chairs made from Disney cuddly toys in London. More »

Five years ago, when Dezeen was still in its infancy, we travelled to Cape Town for the 10th Design Indaba conference. From here, we shared links to movies showing Swedish designers Front questioning whether or not design makes people happy, as well as some snapshots from the party where guests included Jaime Hayon, Jasper Morrison, Michael Young and Neville Brody. More »

This time five years ago Dezeen visited Stockholm Furniture Fair for the very first time, where we saw an artificial garden created by designer and guest of honour Konstantin Grcic, as well as installations by up and coming designers at the Greenhouse show. More »

Five years ago this week an all-star lineup of architects comprising Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando released proposals for a cultural complex on an island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. Hadid's designs were for a performing arts centre projecting towards the harbour while Gehry put forward plans for a Guggenheim contemporary art museum, Nouvel proposed a Louvre classical art gallery and Ando designed a maritime museum. All four are currently still in development. More »

This time five years ago the concrete formwork of Zaha Hadid's MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts was only just beginning to take shape in Rome. The building finally completed in 2009 and went on to win the Stirling Prize the following year. More »