Architecture
Drive Through Airport by Büro für MEHR
Creative studio Büro für MEHR has designed a concept for a drive-through airport that processes planes like a car wash. More about Drive Through Airport by Büro für MEHR
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One year ago
This time last year Dezeen was all about the great outdoors with a zoological park on a series of artificial islands, glass objects made in the desert and Peter Zumthor talking about his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More about One year ago
Design
Beer Wrench by Budnitz
If you like beer and cycling, this is the tool for you: a spanner with a bottle opener at the other end. More about Beer Wrench by Budnitz
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
The most popular stories on Dezeen this week include hidden furniture, a home delivered by helicopter and pyramid-shaped beach huts. More about This week on Dezeen
Architecture
Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes by Elizabeth de Portzamparc
Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has won a competition to design a museum of Roman history in Nîmes with this building dressed in a pleated glass toga. More about Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes by Elizabeth de Portzamparc
Architecture
The Hive Apartment by ITN Architects
The facade of this Melbourne house for an architect and a street artist has built-in graffiti. More about The Hive Apartment by ITN Architects
Architecture
"Zaha Hadid says austerity is not an excuse for low-quality housing" - The Guardian
Dezeen Wire: architect Zaha Hadid said governments should not use austerity as an excuse for building cheap housing, hospitals and public buildings in an interview at the Cannes International Festival of Advertising this week - The GuardianHadid was made a dame for her services to architecture last week when the Queen’s 2012 Birthday Honours list was announced.
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Design
V&A museum to open new permanent furniture gallery
News: the V&A museum in London is to open a new permanent gallery to display over 200 pieces from its collection of furniture spanning 600 years. More about V&A museum to open new permanent furniture gallery
Design
Movie: tour of Design Products at Show RCA 2012 with Tord Boontje
Movie: in the first of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Products course Tord Boontje talks about selected projects including food containers made of radioactive soil and suits for living in someone else's skin. More about Movie: tour of Design Products at Show RCA 2012 with Tord Boontje
Design
Stair Rover by Po-Chih Lai at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). More about Stair Rover by Po-Chih Lai at Show RCA 2012
Architecture
Experimentarium Science Centre by CEBRA
Danish architects CEBRA have revealed their proposals for a science and technology centre within a former mineral water bottling plant in Copenhagen. More about Experimentarium Science Centre by CEBRA
Interiors
Haberdash by Form Us With Love
Menswear is displayed like tools in a shed at this shop in Stockholm by local designers Form Us With Love. More about Haberdash by Form Us With Love
News
"Espionage virus sent blueprints to China" - Telegraph
Dezeen Wire: designers and architects using AutoCAD have been targetted by a virus that steals plans for new buildings and products and emails them to China, according to an internet security firm - Telegraph
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Architecture
Casa Grecia by Isay Weinfeld
Slideshow: a mysterious orange door on a suburban São Paulo street leads to a dream house and gardens designed by architect Isay Weinfeld. More about Casa Grecia by Isay Weinfeld
Architecture
The Zebra Crossing Project by Eduard Čehovin
This pedestrian crossing in Serbia jumbles up the usual arrangement of black and white stripes. More about The Zebra Crossing Project by Eduard Čehovin
Design
Lasso Shoes by Gaspard Tiné-Berès at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Gaspard Tiné-Berès has designed slippers made from just one piece of felt and a shoelace (+ movie). More about Lasso Shoes by Gaspard Tiné-Berès at Show RCA 2012
Dezeen Mail #106
This week's issue of Dezeen Mail includes seats made of hair and pots made of radioactive soil plus Italian designers Formafantasma talking about their work with molten lava, flour and insect excrement.
There’re also new jobs, interviews and music plus details of our next pop-up store.
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Architecture
Punggol Promenade by LOOK Architects
Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). More about Punggol Promenade by LOOK Architects
News
Call for entries to Ventura Interieur at Biennale Interieur 2012
Dezeen Wire: design show Biennale Interieur 2012 will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20 to 28 October 2012 and Dutch company Organisation in Design is calling for entries to Ventura Interieur, a city-wide satellite program of shows in collaboration with the biennale. More about Call for entries to Ventura Interieur at Biennale Interieur 2012
Design
Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree at Clerkenwell Design Week
Movie: British designer Ross Lovegrove talks to Dezeen about the tree-like solar-powered street lights he brought to St John's Square for Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree at Clerkenwell Design Week