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Architecture

Architecture

Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind is the twelfth addition to our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Pictured here is the New York architect's extension to the Dresden Museum of Military History, which features a pointed steel and glass shard through the skin of the historic museum, but he also recently unveiled plans to build an angular apartment block in Berlin.

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Design

Design

Fashion collection features solar panels for charging a mobile phone

Wearable Futures: flaps in this range of clothing by Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen open up to reveal solar panels, enabling the wearer to become a walking mobile phone charger (+ movie). More about Fashion collection features solar panels for charging a mobile phone

Design

Design

Self-repairing trainers 3D-printed from biological cells by Shamees Aden

Wearable Futures: London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological material and could repair themselves overnight. More about Self-repairing trainers 3D-printed from biological cells by Shamees Aden

Competition: three 3XN monographs to be won

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Danish architecture studio 3XN to give away three copies of the firm's new monograph. More about Competition: three 3XN monographs to be won

Architecture

Architecture

Movie shows concrete bunker cut in half by RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon

This movie shows how a redundant Second World War bunker in the Netherlands was turned into a sculptural visitor attraction by slicing it down the middle to reveal its insides. More about Movie shows concrete bunker cut in half by RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon

Architecture

Architecture

Office amenities building has dragon-like scales

Curving iridescent structures resembling the scaled bodies of a pair of dragons slump over the top of this new wing created by French studios Agence Jouin Manku and DTACC at an office campus outside Paris (+ slideshow). More about Office amenities building has dragon-like scales

Architecture

Architecture

MAD's Nanjing masterplan features buildings designed to look like mountains

Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD presents a masterplan for Nanjing, China, where buildings are designed to look like mountains and public spaces overlap with the natural landscape, as part of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. More about MAD's Nanjing masterplan features buildings designed to look like mountains

Architecture

Architecture

Ecological urban spa made from shipping containers planned for San Francisco

News: wellness entrepreneur Nell Waters is attempting to raise £146,000 on crowdfunding website Kickstarter to build a prototypal ecological urban bathhouse from shipping containers in San Francisco. More about Ecological urban spa made from shipping containers planned for San Francisco

Interiors

Interiors

Kloke shop interior features copper clothes rails and wooden display units by Sibling

Garments in this retail interior by Australian design studio Sibling are displayed on copper clothes rails and stacked wooden cubes (+ slideshow). More about Kloke shop interior features copper clothes rails and wooden display units by Sibling

Architecture

Architecture

Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: John Pawson

Today is the tenth letter in our A-Zdvent calendar and features John Pawson. His British firm remodelled this old church in Augsburg, Germany earlier this year (pictured) and yesterday announced he'll be the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project.

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