Five years ago this week the Zaha Hadid – Architecture and Design exhibition opened at the Design Museum in London and Dezeen were reporting live from the show as well as running the exhibition blog. More about Five years ago...
Royal College of Art graduate Hal Watts has come up with a bicycle-powered electronic waste recycler that could save lives in developing countries (+ movie). More about Esource by Hal Watts at Show RCA 2012
Dutch architecture studio GAAGA designed an asymmetrical facade to make these two houses in Leiden look like only one. More about Two-In-One House by GAAGA
This pop-up restaurant has been touring Europe rooftops since last April and is currently perched on top of the Royal Festival Hall in London. More about The Cube by Electrolux
An exhibition of work by Italian design maestro Ettore Sottsass is on show at Friedman Benda gallery in New York. More about Ettore Sottsass: A Survey, 1992 – 2007 at Friedman Benda
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Guardian
Hadid 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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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
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
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
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
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
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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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
This pedestrian crossing in Serbia jumbles up the usual arrangement of black and white stripes. More about The Zebra Crossing Project by Eduard Čehovin