Architecture
Birnbeck Pier and Island by Levitate
Architects Levitate have won the competition to revitalise Birnbeck Pier at Weston-Super-Mare, England More about Birnbeck Pier and Island by Levitate
Architects Levitate have won the competition to revitalise Birnbeck Pier at Weston-Super-Mare, England More about Birnbeck Pier and Island by Levitate
London-based architecture and design studio Voon Wong & Benson Saw have created a cloud-like installation using polystyrene cups for the opening of a design store in Malaysia. More about Space Furniture installation by voonwong&bensonsaw
Swedish architects Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture have designed a series of four prefabricated low-energy houses. More about Passive Houses by Kjellgren Kaminsky
Designer Yves Béhar won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award at a ceremony at the Design Museum in London last night, for the One Laptop Per Child project. More about Yves Béhar wins Design of the Year
Japanese architects Kiyonobu Nakagame have updated their website, showing work including House in Sendai-Kasumi. More about House in Sendai-Kasumi by Kiyonobu Nakagame
Leave, a leaf-shaped fridge magnet designed by Richard Hutten, has been put into production by office furniture manufacturers Gispen. More about Leave magnets by Richard Hutten
Another one from Fashion Architecture Taste: the architects have completed the KK Outlet, a combined office, gallery and shop in London for communications agency KesselsKramer. More about KK Outlet by Fashion Architecture Taste
Architects Tonkin Liu have designed the China Design Now exhibition, which has just opened at the V&A museum in London. More about China Design Now by Tonkin Liu
Architects Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) have won a competition to design a library and nursery at Walsall, England. More about Bentley library by Fashion Architecture Taste
Betonvorhang, a concrete curtain by design company Memux (above), is one of 676 industrial products awarded in the Red Dot Awards 2008, which have just been announced. The list of winners is huge, so best you visit the Red Dot website for more info as our heads are hurting just looking at it all.
More about Red Dot Awards 2008
Casas Lago in Buenos Aires is the first built project from young Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden. More about Casas Lago by Adamo-Faiden
Here are a few photographs of the Living bridge in Limerick, Republic of Ireland, by London-based architects Wilkinson Eyre. More about Living bridge by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Japanese designer Kimihiko Okada has created an installation called Another Geography at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama, Tokyo. More about Another Geography by Kimihiko Okada
Now you can build your own Wall House: Chilean architects FAR frohn&rojas are selling sets of plans for their award-winning, tent-covered home. More about Your Wall House by FAR frohn&rojas
Japanese architect Akihito Fumita has designed the Nissan Grandrive event hall in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa as part of a renovation of the car maker's test facilities. More about Nissan Grandrive by Akihito Fumita
Chanel Contemporary Art Container, a travelling art space designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has opened in its first destination, Hong Kong. More about Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid
The V&A Museum of Childhood in London will host an exhibition of Olympic Games posters spanning from 1900 to the present day. More about A Century of Olympic Posters at the V&A Museum of Childhood
100 Chairs in 100 Days by Martino Gamper is one of seven category winners for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards, organised by the Design Museum in London. More about Category winners of Designs of the Year awards
Terry Pawson Architects have won approval to build two private houses in a conservation area at Kingston Upon Thames near London. More about Twin Houses by Terry Pawson Architects
Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed the masterplan for Waterfront City, a new city proposed for Dubai. More about Waterfront City masterplan by OMA