Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk claims that the most creative work on show during the recent London Design Festival was to be found in basement flats and disused offices - The Guardian
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French architect Serge Salat has designed an infinite labyrinth of shapes and colours for a touring exhibition in China. More about Beyond the Infinity by Serge Salat
Dezeen Platform: visitors to Dezeen Space today can stand on Dezeen Platform installation to create a soundscape by linking hands with others. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: LingJing Yin, Mark McKeague and Ting Chung Jessica Cheng
Beijing Design Week 2011: a tricycle modified by Canadian artist Nicholas Hanna mimics the Chinese custom of writing temporary messages on the road with water. More about Water Calligraphy Device by Nicholas Hanna
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Japanese architects Maker have completed a Hiroshima restaurant where timber slats on the ceiling descend around the dining tables. More about Kurogane by Maker
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed a monastery built into the side of a hill at the site of Le Corbusier's chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. More about Ronchamp Tomorrow by Renzo Piano
London Design Festival 2011: divisive designs from the 1970s and 1980s are brought together in a retrospective exhibition entitled Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, which opened at the Victoria & Albert museum at the weekend. More about Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 at the V&A
Despite living in hilly San Francisco, designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has created a tricycle for local living. More about Local by fuseproject
Dezeen Platform: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Spanish designer Roger Arquer talks about the furniture he made for his daughter using wooden spoons, rolling pins and a pastry brush. Watch the movie »
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Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reviews the latest building by Renzo Piano, a convent near to Le Corbusier's chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp - The Guardian
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Dezeen Platform: up next at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space is University of Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson, with his fictional model of a home for early twentieth-century intellectual Walter Benjamin. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: Thomas Hudson
The London Design Festival may be over but Dezeen Space is still open at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN until 16 October. More about Dezeen Space at 54 Rivington Street
A recessed balcony carves a rectangular hole in the facade of a writer’s house in north Hollywood. More about Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects
Dezeen Wire: the number of architectural practices expecting more work in the month from July to August saw a drop from 27% to 25% according to the latest Future Trends Survey published by the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. More about "More practices expecting drop in workload" - RIBA Future Trends Survey
This time last year MVRDV's Balancing Barn was nearing completion and the proposals for the V&A at Dundee were unveiled, including the eventual winning design by Kengo Kuma. More about One year ago...
Dezeen archive: a waterside summerhouse in Norway (top left) was popular on Dezeen this week, so here’s a roundup of all our stories about Norwegian architecture and interiors. See all the stories »
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Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom, central London owner of Ligne Roset Robert Hasty talks about pieces by Jean Nouvel and Inga Sempé. Watch the movie »
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Dezeen Platform: east London street artist Stewy joins us at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: Stewy
Japanese architect Masato Sekiya has slotted one timber structure inside another to construct a law firm in Nara. More about A Mono Struct Office by Masato Sekiya