Architects Colboc Franzen & Associés have masked the facade and balconies of three apartment blocks in the south of France behind curved galvanised-steel grids. More about Housing in Sète by Colboc Franzen & Associés
This week five years ago fashion projects were catching our attention, including garments based on the inkblot patterns of the Rorschach psychological test and polo shirts covered in a plastic crocodile skin. More about Five years ago...
Barcelona graphic design company Lo Siento has created a set of sculptural letters that can be read from all sides (+ movie). More about 4D typography by Lo Siento
Dezeen Super Store is now open at 38 Monmouth Street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London. The micro-department store brings together our designer watch boutique Dezeen Watch Store, our pop-up design concept The Temporium and our Designed in Hackney Shop so drop by if you're in town!
Dezeen Super Store
38 Monmouth Street, London WC2
1 July – 30 September 2012
Monday to Saturday: 11am to 7pm
Sunday: 11am to 5pm
Dezeen archive: we've noticed a lot of parasitic architecture so here's a selection of buildings on Dezeen that sit, lean or cling on to others. See all the stories »
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Test tubes of olive oil line one wall of this high-tech workshop designed for Michelin-starred chef Paco Roncero by Spanish studio Carmen Baselga Taller de Proyectos. More about Paco Roncero's workshop by Carmen Baselga Taller de Proyectos
Turkish designer Yigit Ozer has created a range of three dimensional wall tiles for ceramic company Kutahya Seramik. More about Nexus by Yigit Ozer for Kutahya Seramik
This time last year we featured projects constructed from all kinds of unusual materials, including a car made of cartilage that generates its own fuel from algae, pencils created from workshop dust and a table made from polystyrene steamed inside fabric moulds. More about One year ago...
Dezeen Wire: Newham Borough Council are appealing to designers and brands to help them furnish a drop-in centre for victims of domestic and sexual violence during the Olympic Games next month. More about Appeal for help to furnish a domestic and sexual violence drop-in centre
Here are the first official photographs of Wendy, the giant blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture that has been installed in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York (+ slideshow). More about Wendy by HWKN
This week on Dezeen we've featured a drive-through airport, a report on the next industrial revolution and two ways to tackle cancer. More about This week on Dezeen
This mobile pavilion for a travelling chef by Barcelona studio Rodero Beggiao Architects will comprise two wedge-shaped modules that can be reconfigured to suit each new home. More about elBulli Pavilion by Rodero Beggiao Architects
Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel has created two new typefaces for London type company The Foundry, based on his work for exhibition catalogues and posters from the 1960s and 1970s. More about Typefaces by Wim Crouwel for The Foundry
Dezeen Wire: journalist Oliver Wainwright has revealed on Twitter that he will be the new architecture and design critic at UK newspaper the Guardian.
Wainwright, who is currently the features editor at UK architecture weekly Building Design, will take over from Jonathan Glancey, who left the role in February.
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Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. More about Parallel Architecture by James Thompson at Show RCA 2012
The first five winners of this year's TED Prize for urban innovation have been announced. Recipients include London design studio 00:/ for its project WikiHouse, which involves the construction of wooden houses from a downloaded kit of parts. More about TED Prize winners announced
Thin layers are gradually shaved away from a cylindrical block of chocolate to reveal the embedded geometric patterns in this installation by Dutch designer Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum (+ movie). More about Chocolate Mill by Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has fitted out a restaurant at the top of the tallest skyscraper in central Paris. More about Ciel de Paris by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
This snaking concrete structure by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects winds down from a road to the beach along the edge of the Arctic Ocean. More about Havøysund Tourist Route by Reiulf Ramstad Architects
Earlier today we featured objects made of tarmac. Now here's some furniture made of bricks by designers Rachel Griffin of Earnest Studio in Rotterdam and Emilie Pallard of Eindhoven. More about Building by Earnest Studio and Emilie Pallard