Studio GAON converts concrete warehouse into a couple's first home
Studio GAON has converted a concrete factory built 20 years ago in South Korea by the client's late father into a house with a mural-covered facade (+ slideshow). More
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"Safe to say he's the Kanye West of Apple?"
Comments update: when Apple's Jonathan Ive took to the stage at London's Design Museum, he probably didn't expect his comments on education to become the most hotly debated topic in design this week. More
Swiss watch based on Helvetica typeface arrives at Dezeen Watch Store
Dezeen Watch Store: Swiss watchmaker Mondaine has released a watch dedicated to Helvetica, the iconic typeface designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. More
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OMA's CCTV building reconstructed as a wooden cabinet
Design Miami 2014: a wardrobe by Chinese designer Naihan Li shaped like OMA's CCTV tower in Beijing will go on show at Design Miami next month. More
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Dezeen has reached 250k Twitter followers!
This image was created for Dezeen by London-based illustrator James Burgess to celebrate our 250,000th follower on Twitter. If you don't already, follow us here for all the latest headlines, projects and reader comments from Dezeen.
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New York's 2018 skyline revealed in visualisations
News: these renderings show what New York's skyline will look like in 2018, when many of the city's new tall skyscrapers will be complete (+ slideshow). More
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Apple releases San Francisco typeface for watch-app developers
News: the typeface used on the recently unveiled Apple Watch has been made available to download alongside a kit of tools for developers who are customising apps for the device. More
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"Low-cost" inflatable baby incubator could help slash number of neonatal fatalities
News: Loughborough University graduate James Roberts has won this year's James Dyson Award for a baby incubator that costs a fraction of the price of current technologies and "could save thousands of lives" in developing countries. More
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David Chipperfield's City of Culture nears completion in Milan
News: these new images show the interiors and exteriors of David Chipperfield's soon-to-complete museum and gallery complex in a converted steel factory in Milan (+ slideshow). More
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Heatherwick's Garden Bridge will require groups of eight or more to "request a formal visit"
News: groups of eight people or more will have to apply for permission to cross Thomas Heatherwick's proposed Garden Bridge in London in a move to discourage "protest groups" from occupying the structure. More
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Czech and UK architects win Prague housing project
News: 10 architecture firms – seven from the UK and three from the Czech Republic – have been selected via an international design competition to create housing designs for a development on the outskirts of Prague. More
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Ventura Lambrate 2015 call for entries
Dezeen promotion: submissions are now being accepted to exhibit at contemporary design show Ventura Lambrate during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile event in Milan next April. More
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Benjamin Hubert and Moroso "share a passion for innovations in textile"
Movie: London designer Benjamin Hubert says he and Moroso share a common interest in exploring new ways of using textiles in our penultimate video interview for the Italian furniture brand. More
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Nano Architects remodels 1960s apartment in Japan with curved and letterbox-shaped openings
Japanese studio Nano Architects has renovated a small 1960s apartment with custom-built wooden furniture, ornamental driftwood and unusually shaped openings – a process described by the team as "cyborg surgery" (+ slideshow). More
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Impossible Technology's electric bicycle folds away into a backpack
Beijing-based design team Impossible Technology has created an electric bike that can be folded away and carried in a backpack (+ movie). More
