Dezeen Guide update: February 2014
Dezeen Guide: February begins with Stockholm Design Week, which kicks off on Monday, and we have 11 more architecture and design events in our update for this month. More about Dezeen Guide update: February 2014
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Claesson Koivisto Rune to launch pentagonal wooden furniture
Stockholm 2014: all of the solid wood furniture in Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's collection for Japanese brand Matsuso T has five sides (+ slideshow). More about Claesson Koivisto Rune to launch pentagonal wooden furniture
This week on Dezeen
This week Google unveiled a collection of spectacles and sunglasses frames for its Google Glass augmented reality headset (pictured), and we spoke to lead designer Isabelle Olsson about the technology's development. Read on for our architecture and design news roundup of the past seven days. More about This week on Dezeen
Architecture photography award-winners go on show in London
Views of Peter Zumthor's Bruder Klaus Field Chapel and a rippled timber reindeer observation pavilion by Snøhetta are among the 16 shortlisted photographs for the 2013 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards, a selection of which go on show in London next month (+ slideshow). More about Architecture photography award-winners go on show in London
Google Glass was designed through "sketching by hand" says lead designer
Interview: when designer Isabelle Olsson joined the secret Google X lab in 2011, Google Glass looked like a cross between a scuba mask and a cellphone. In this exclusive interview, Olsson tells Dezeen how she turned the clunky prototype into something "beautiful and comfortable". Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Google Glass was designed through "sketching by hand" says lead designer
Artek buys factory where Alvar Aalto developed his furniture
News: Finnish furniture brand Artek has acquired the production facilities that were used by its co-founder Modernist architect Alvar Aalto to develop his signature bent wood furniture. More about Artek buys factory where Alvar Aalto developed his furniture
Martijn Van Strien's Dystopian Brutalist Outerwear is "a kind of trend forecast"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: graduate designer Martijn Van Strien explains that his range of coats made from single sheets of black tarpaulin are designed for an imagined future world where money and resources are in short supply. More about Martijn Van Strien's Dystopian Brutalist Outerwear is "a kind of trend forecast"
Job of the week: interior designer at Vitra Campus
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an interior designer at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, which includes the five-storey VitraHaus showroom designed by Herzog & de Meuron (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Joseph Grima to curate Biennale Interieur 2014
News: British writer and editor Joseph Grima will curate the cultural programme at this year's Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium. More about Joseph Grima to curate Biennale Interieur 2014
BE OPEN's Made In... India: Samskara exhibition will focus on the future of craft
BE OPEN Made In... India: Indian handicrafts and contemporary design will be displayed in a space built by local stonecutters (pictured) at an exhibition organised by creative think tank BE OPEN, which opens in New Delhi on 10 February. More about BE OPEN's Made In... India: Samskara exhibition will focus on the future of craft
Translucent fabric divides Aesop store in Kyoto by Simplicity
Sheets of translucent black material separate areas of this Aesop skincare store in Kyoto by Japanese studio Simplicity (+ slideshow). More about Translucent fabric divides Aesop store in Kyoto by Simplicity
Casa Flotanta by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture is raised above a forest
A series of pillars raise the interconnected rooms of this house by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture above the tree tops of the surrounding Costa Rican forest (+ slideshow). More about Casa Flotanta by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture is raised above a forest
e15 unveils wood and marble home accessories collection
German brand e15 has launched a collection of wood and marble home accessories (+ slideshow). More about e15 unveils wood and marble home accessories collection
Garden Mausoleum by HGA features rough granite, white marble and gleaming onyx
Ornamental doors and windows sit within recesses that appear to have been carved away from the coarse granite walls of this mausoleum in Minneapolis by American architecture firm HGA (+ slideshow). More about Garden Mausoleum by HGA features rough granite, white marble and gleaming onyx
Olson Kundig and Jack Daws imagine a house on stilts above a polluted lake
Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects has produced visualisations imagining the fictional scenes before and after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals haphazardly plunged into a lake where artist Jack Daws was building a house on stilts (+ slideshow). More about Olson Kundig and Jack Daws imagine a house on stilts above a polluted lake
"London's fire station closures represent the inevitable carelessness of contemporary cities"
Opinion: Kieran Long responds to the recent closure of ten London fire stations, arguing that architecture built for a specific purpose and location is far more valuable to a city's sense of place than generic, pragmatic solutions. More about "London's fire station closures represent the inevitable carelessness of contemporary cities"
Dezeen Mail #187
Dezeen Mail issue 187 includes the Google Glass collection of spectacles and sunglasses, a house with glass floors instead of windows (pictured) plus the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Central America's largest museum of Mayan culture to be built in Guatemala
News: Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Boston office over,under have teamed up to design Central America's largest museum of Mayan history and culture for a site in Guatemala City. More about Central America's largest museum of Mayan culture to be built in Guatemala
Dark Side collection of 3D printed vessels by Michaël Malapert
The faceted forms of these 3D-printed wireframe bowls and vessels by French designer Michaël Malapert are inspired by the Japanese art of origami. More about Dark Side collection of 3D printed vessels by Michaël Malapert
Architecture studio with a bulging wall by domohomo architects
A curving timber-clad wall divides the work space from a multipurpose meeting room at the offices of domohomo architects in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. More about Architecture studio with a bulging wall by domohomo architects