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Dezeenwire: the Plastiki boat made entirely from plastic bottles (see our earlier story) has arrived in Sydney after a 130-day voyage across the Pacific from San Francisco. More information on the Plastiki blog.
See also: our story about the boat's design.
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Here's another clock designed by Giha Woo and Shingoeun (see their clock with a battery for hands in our earlier story), this time with a single spiralling arm to indicate the time in different countries around the world. More about The Bent Hands by Giha Woo and Shingoeun
Here's a movie filmed by the Design Museum at London graduate show New Designers. More about Design Museum at New Designers
Stuttgart photographer Zooey Braun has sent us his images of this corrugated house in Bavaria, designed by German firm SoHo Architektur. More about Bru 1.25 by SoHo Architektur
Two batteries form the hands of this clock by designers Giha Woo and Shingoeun. More about The Front & Back by Giha Woo and Shingoeun
South Korean designer Soojin Kang has covered a range of second hand chairs in a patchwork of fabric. More about Patched Chair by Soojin Kang
London studio West Architecture refurbished the ground floor of this London office by dividing the lobby and meeting room with sliding wooden screens. More about Therefore Offices by West Architecture
This observation tower by Munich office terrain:loenhart&mayr rises over the river Mur at the Austrian border with Slovenia. More about Observation Tower on the River Mur by terrain:loenhart&mayr
Scottish brewery BrewDog have packaged their latest range of beers inside dead animals. More about The End of History by BrewDog
Design competition: there's only one week left to enter our competition with Design Association in Japan to win free exhibition space at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition during Tokyo Designers Week 2010 from 29 October to 3 November. More details »
More about Dezeen x Design Association container design competition
We've got together with Dutch architects MVRDV to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Green Dream - How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, written by The Why Factory foundation. More about Competition: five copies of the Green Dream to be won
British studio Fletcher Crane Architects have won a competition to design a waterside office building on the river Aire in Leeds, UK. More about 36 The Calls by Fletcher Crane Architects
Dezeenwire: Jay Merrick on the rollout of Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project, creating contemporary holiday homes in the UK - Independent
See also:
Houses by Peter Zumthor, MVRDV and others for Living Architecture (July 2010)
Balancing Barn by MVRDV and Mole Architects (May 2009)
Dezeenwire: Norwegian firm Snøhetta have been selected to design an extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - more details in press release below More about Snøhetta selected to design extension for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Canadian designer Philippe-Albert Lefebvre has created a range of fire tools by casting hand-carved branches in bronze and iron. More about Bronze Age by Philippe-Albert Lefebvre
These lamp shades wrapped in adhesive tape are by Italian designer Sylvia Pichler for design brand Skitsch. More about Tape Lamp by Sylvia Pichler for Skitsch
Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. More about Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada by Xpiral
A boat made of plastic bottles designed by Exploration Architecture is nearing the end of its journey across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney to highlight pollution of the seas. More about Plastiki Expedition boat by Exploration Architecture for Adventure Ecology
This sculpture in the Netherlands countryside by Dutch designers Tjep. comprises a series of steel elements that when viewed from a certain point form the outline of a traditional farm building. More about Transformations by Tjep