22 June 2012

Dezeen Music Project: Broken Clocks by Jekka

This song by Moscow-based musician Jekka shows what you can do with just a laptop, a microKORG and some talent. Layers of looped vocal samples and a full-blooded synth bass combine to provide a platform for Jekka's powerful, dynamic vocal melody. It's a bold and energetic style that draws favourable comparisons with the excellent Tune-Yards album of last year.

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Beer Wrench by Budnitz

If you like beer and cycling, this is the tool for you: a spanner with a bottle opener at the other end. More about Beer Wrench by Budnitz

Rose Etherington | 22 June 2012 | 12 comments

This week on Dezeen

The most popular stories on Dezeen this week include hidden furniture, a home delivered by helicopter and pyramid-shaped beach huts. More about This week on Dezeen

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Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes by Elizabeth de Portzamparc

Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has won a competition to design a museum of Roman history in Nîmes with this building dressed in a pleated glass toga. More about Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes by Elizabeth de Portzamparc

Emilie Chalcraft | 22 June 2012 | 3 comments
The Hive Apartment by ITN Architects

The facade of this Melbourne house for an architect and a street artist has built-in graffiti. More about The Hive Apartment by ITN Architects

Emilie Chalcraft | 22 June 2012 | 19 comments

"Zaha Hadid says austerity is not an excuse for low-quality housing" - The Guardian

Dezeen Wire: architect Zaha Hadid said governments should not use austerity as an excuse for building cheap housing, hospitals and public buildings in an interview at the Cannes International Festival of Advertising this week - The Guardian

Hadid was made a dame for her services to architecture last week when the Queen’s 2012 Birthday Honours list was announced.

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Rose Etherington | 22 June 2012 | Leave a comment
V&A museum to open new permanent furniture gallery

News: the V&A museum in London is to open a new permanent gallery to display over 200 pieces from its collection of furniture spanning 600 years. More about V&A museum to open new permanent furniture gallery

Rose Etherington | 22 June 2012 | Leave a comment
Movie: tour of Design Products at Show RCA 2012 with Tord Boontje

Movie: in the first of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Products course Tord Boontje talks about selected projects including food containers made of radioactive soil and suits for living in someone else's skin. More about Movie: tour of Design Products at Show RCA 2012 with Tord Boontje

Rose Etherington | 22 June 2012 | Leave a comment
Stair Rover by Po-Chih Lai at Show RCA 2012

Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). More about Stair Rover by Po-Chih Lai at Show RCA 2012

Emilie Chalcraft | 22 June 2012 | 21 comments
Experimentarium Science Centre by CEBRA

Danish architects CEBRA have revealed their proposals for a science and technology centre within a former mineral water bottling plant in Copenhagen. More about Experimentarium Science Centre by CEBRA

Amy Frearson | 22 June 2012 | 3 comments

Haberdash by Form Us With Love

Menswear is displayed like tools in a shed at this shop in Stockholm by local designers Form Us With Love. More about Haberdash by Form Us With Love

Dan Howarth | 22 June 2012 | 1 comment

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