Five years ago this week the late Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone, and went on to sell over a hundred million of them. More »

Five years ago this week OMA won a competition to design the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year. More »

This time five years ago Dezeen was less than a month old and reported from Design Miami, where Kanye West took time out from snapping up pieces by the Campana Brothers to tell us about his new apartment by minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin. More »

Five years ago, when Dezeen was just three weeks old, Thomas Heatherwick's East Beach Cafe was still taking shape on the English south coast, Zaha Hadid presented a range of Seamless furniture at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York and The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston released images of its new waterfront cultural centre by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

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This time five years ago designer Fabio Novembre created an interior filled with winding ribbons of Corian for a shoe shop in Rome and we published images of Tadao Ando's building for the Issey Miyake Foundation as it neared completion. More »

On 17 November 2006 Dezeen published its first ever story about the Design Museum dropping the Designer of the Year award. More »