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Art and design graduates are being 'treated as slave labour'

Dezeen Wire: UK broadcaster Channel 4 reports that a backlash is forming against the prevalence of unpaid internships in Britain, which are particularly popular with graduates in the creative industries.

A number of websites have been set up by graduates and campaigners offering advice to those partaking in internships and rallying support for campaigns that call on the government to introduce tighter regulations - Channel 4 News
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Alyn Griffiths | 4 November 2011 | 6 comments
This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen we reported from the Inside awards in Barcelona, where a hotel in a former Japanese Army headquarters by NHDRO walked away with the top prize. More about This week on Dezeen

Alyn Griffiths | 4 November 2011 | Leave a comment
Design

UP by Yves Behar for Jawbone

Electronics brand Jawbone have launched a wristband by San Francisco designer Yves Behar that monitors your every move then tells you what to do. More about UP by Yves Behar for Jawbone

Rose Etherington | 4 November 2011 | 11 comments
Architecture

Maggie’s Nottingham by CZWG and Paul Smith photographed by Michael Whelan

Architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith discuss their designs for the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, UK, in this movie by filmmakers Living Projects. More about Maggie’s Nottingham by CZWG and Paul Smith photographed by Michael Whelan

Amy Frearson | 4 November 2011 | 8 comments
Architecture

Yucca Crater by Ball-Nogues Studio

You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. More about Yucca Crater by Ball-Nogues Studio

Amy Frearson | 4 November 2011 | 4 comments
News

World Architecture Festival day two winners announced

Dezeen Wire: winners of the remaining four completed building categories and nine future designs, celebrating projects that are still in development, have been announced at the World Architecture Festival, which is currently taking place in Barcelona. More about World Architecture Festival day two winners announced

Alyn Griffiths | 4 November 2011 | Leave a comment
Promotion

Libratone Live design competition

Dezeen promotion: design a speaker cover for Copenhagen audio brand Libratone for the chance to win a Libratone Live Airplay sound system worth £599. More about Libratone Live design competition

Rose Etherington | 4 November 2011 | 2 comments
Architecture

Music Hall and House in Algueña by Cor & Asociados

Spanish architects Cor & Asociados have completed a pearlescent music hall in a village near Alicante. More about Music Hall and House in Algueña by Cor & Asociados

Amy Frearson | 4 November 2011 | 11 comments
Interiors

Inside awards overall winner: The Waterhouse at South Bund by NHDRO

Inside 2011: Chinese architects NHDRO have picked up the award for overall winner at the inaugural Inside awards for a hotel inside the abandoned former headquarters of the Japanese army in Shanghai.

You can check out all nine category winners here or read more about this project in our earlier story on Dezeen.

Inside world festival of interiors is taking place on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until 4 November – see all our stories about Inside here, including interviews with the judges on Dezeen Screen.
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Amy Frearson | 3 November 2011 | Leave a comment
Design

In Vein by Ayala Serfaty

Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty's new collection of sculptural furniture and lighting includes upholstered pieces resembling lichen-covered stone. More about In Vein by Ayala Serfaty

Alyn Griffiths | 3 November 2011 | 11 comments
News

"Innovation alone won’t reverse our economic decline"- The Washington Post

Dezeen Wire: U.S. opinion columnist Harold Meyerson has written an article for the Washington Post in which he challenges assertions made in Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that it is America's ability to produce innovators such as Jobs that will keep them ahead of emerging industrial powers such as China and India.

Meyerson opines that Silicon Valley's creativity and technical expertise are not enough to revitalise the American economy, arguing that it is more important that Apple consider relocating production back to the U.S. He concludes his piece by stating that: "Absent manufacturing, innovation, even at its Jobsian heights, can’t do much for the U.S. economy — save, perhaps, dazzle us on our journey downward."

See all of our stories about Steve jobs and Apple.
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Alyn Griffiths | 3 November 2011 | Leave a comment
Video

Dezeen Book of Ideas animation

This animation by Emmy Castelain flips through our new Dezeen Book of Ideas, which features 116 projects by the world's best creative minds. We'll show the animation at our party in Barcelona this evening.
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Rose Etherington | 3 November 2011 | Leave a comment
News

Critics' reactions to the Thames Hub by Foster + Partners

Dezeen Wire: architecture critics are having their say on plans unveiled yesterday by Foster + Partners and engineers Halcrow for a new transportation hub in the Thames estuary (see our story on Dezeen). More about Critics' reactions to the Thames Hub by Foster + Partners

Alyn Griffiths | 3 November 2011 | Leave a comment
Architecture

Milstein Hall by OMA

OMA have completed a new building for the school of architecture at Cornell University in New York. More about Milstein Hall by OMA

Amy Frearson | 3 November 2011 | 11 comments
News

World Architecture Festival day one winners announced

Dezeen Wire: the winning designs in 12 of the completed project categories at the World Architecture Festival awards have been announced. The winners were selected from over 700 entries from 66 countries around the world and will now go forward to compete for the overall prize of World Building of the Year 2011, to be announced tomorrow together with the prizes for Structural Project of the Year 2011 and Future Project of the Year 2011. More about World Architecture Festival day one winners announced

Alyn Griffiths | 3 November 2011 | Leave a comment
Dezeen Mail #85

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a hut grown from cherry trees over 100 years, a glass bedroom in the forest, a library concealed under firewood and a "haunted" Japanese house.

There's also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs and an invitation to our party in Barcelona tonight. Take a look at it here.

Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here.
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Rose Etherington | 3 November 2011 | Leave a comment
Architecture

Mosquée d’Algérie by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten

Construction is about to commence in Algiers on the third largest mosque in the world, which will only be smaller than the pilgrimage sites of Mecca and Medina. More about Mosquée d’Algérie by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten

Amy Frearson | 3 November 2011 | 9 comments
Architecture

Sheikh Zayed Bridge by Zaha Hadid Architects

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some new images of the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi by Zaha Hadid Architects. More about Sheikh Zayed Bridge by Zaha Hadid Architects

Amy Frearson | 3 November 2011 | 19 comments
Promotion

Tudor Grantour Chrono Fly-Back by Tudor

Dezeen promotion: Swiss watchmakers Tudor present their new Grantour Chrono Fly-Back model. More about Tudor Grantour Chrono Fly-Back by Tudor

Rose Etherington | 3 November 2011 | Leave a comment
News

"Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate"- Rem Koolhaas

Dezeen Wire: in an interview with Farah Nayeri for Bloomberg Businessweek, architect Rem Koolhaas describes the European Union as "an incomplete machine" and claims that it will "disintegrate" unless political leaders complete the task of integration begun when the EU was founded. More about "Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate"- Rem Koolhaas

Alyn Griffiths | 2 November 2011 | Leave a comment