Architecture
House-dT by Daijiro Takakusa
Slideshow: one huge window stretches across the black facade of this house overlooking the bay in Osaka. More about House-dT by Daijiro Takakusa
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Architecture
Noun 1. Unavailability by Gartnerfuglen
Recently established Norwegian architecture studio Gartnerfuglen have created a mobile fisherman's hut with walls of ice, where a single inhabitant can isolate themselves from modern technology. More about Noun 1. Unavailability by Gartnerfuglen
Five years ago...
Five years ago this week, after just four months online, Dezeen already had a quarter of a million readers. We published our first story about a sex toy, as well as a globular building that Zaha Hadid had just designed for a square in Budapest. More about Five years ago...
Dezeen archive: cork
Dezeen archive: this week sets of pins that let you transform your wine corks into animal characters (bottom right) were very popular on Pinterest, so we thought we'd group together all our stories about things made of cork. See all the stories »
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News
Dezeen in Port Magazine
More about Dezeen in Port Magazine
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs is among those interviewed by design editor Alyn Griffiths for this month's Port Magazine in a feature entitled RIP CMYK, charting the shift from paper to pixels in design journalism and asking why it works. Read the full article here.
Interiors
Sketch by Martin Creed
Slideshow: no two items of furniture or pieces of tableware are the same in the dining room that British artist Martin Creed has designed at London restaurant Sketch. More about Sketch by Martin Creed
One year ago...
This time last year Nike launched a football strip for the French national team featuring the classic Breton stripe, while Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and over a hundred other prolific designers each created an artwork on a piece of graph paper to raise money for cancer care centres. More about One year ago...
Interiors
La Bohème by AVA Architects
Ribbed timber framework folds around the walls and ceiling of this bar in Porto by Portuguese studio AVA Architects (photos by José Campos). More about La Bohème by AVA Architects
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week Chinese architect Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou was named 2012 Pritkzer Prize laureate and we rounded up his key projects. More about This week on Dezeen
Furniture
Koloro-desk by Torafu Architects
This desk by Japanese studio Torafu Architects looks like a doll's house, with little windows in the walls and a pendent lamp inside. More about Koloro-desk by Torafu Architects
Design
Coat-hanger Chopper by Michael Schoner
Dresses whirl past on a radio-controlled coat hanger in this installation by Amsterdam-based German designer Michael Schoner at the Droog flagship store in Amsterdam. The movement was controlled by manipulating two fans, taken from computers, at the top of the mobile while bags of sugar and salt provided counterweights. More about Coat-hanger Chopper by Michael Schoner
Design
H-supplies Kit by Dialoguemethod
Slideshow: Seoul studio Dialoguemethod made this stationery set by layering up birch plywood with coloured paper. More about H-supplies Kit by Dialoguemethod
Architecture
House in Iizuka by Rhythmdesign
A small wooden dining table at the heart of this house in Fukuoka, Japan, is overlooked from every other room. More about House in Iizuka by Rhythmdesign
Architecture
Volksbank Gifhorn by Stephan Braunfels Architekten
The subtly different proportions of two concrete gables fronting a bank building in northern Germany create the illusion that one side is fatter than the other. More about Volksbank Gifhorn by Stephan Braunfels Architekten
Interiors
Noma FoodLab by 3XN
Danish architects 3XN have transformed a warehouse at popular Copenhagen restaurant Noma into an experimental food laboratory filled with modular wooden furniture and star-shaped lighting. More about Noma FoodLab by 3XN
Dezeen Space
Dezeen Platform: Pia Wüstenberg
Dezeen Platform: in the last of our series of movies filmed with Dezeen Platform exhibitors, Royal College of Art graduate Pia Wüstenberg presents her pieces made from processed paper, which include pendant lamps and a folding table with paper vases for legs. More about Dezeen Platform: Pia Wüstenberg
Dezeen Mail #93
Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including open-source eyewear, impossible buildings and Kengo Kuma's take on Starbucks.
There's also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, plus all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here.
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Design
Corkers by Monkey Business and Reddish
Slideshow: Israeli studios Monkey Business and Reddish have designed these pins for making little animal characters from wine corks at the dinner table. More about Corkers by Monkey Business and Reddish
Architecture
Trunk House by Paul Morgan Architects
Forked tree branches framing this house in southeast Australia were intended by architect Paul Morgan to resemble the sun-bleached kangaroo and sheep bones scattered around the surrounding woodland. More about Trunk House by Paul Morgan Architects
Architecture
University of Applied Arts Vienna by Wolfgang Tschapeller
Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna with proposals that include facade-climbing staircases and giant balloons. More about University of Applied Arts Vienna by Wolfgang Tschapeller