Here's another building with a pointy prow, but this time it's a public toilet. Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these pictures of the new facilities in Gravesend in Kent, England, by Plastik Architects. More about Gravesend public toilets by Plastik Architects
Foster + Partners have released designs for the biggest building ever built: Crystal Island in Moscow will be 450m high, cover an area of almost half a million square metres and contain a total floor area of 2.5 million square metres. More about The world’s biggest ever building by Foster + Partners
Italian designer Ettore Sottsass has died aged 90, the New York Times reports (via dezain.net, via archinect).
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We should have run this over Christmas, on account of its punny name. Hoe Hoe Hoe! was an installation at Container Ground during Tokyo Designers Week in November. Students of Tama Art University in Tokyo filled their shipping container with a papier-mache structure lined with shredded newspaper. More about Hoe Hoe Hoe at Container Ground, Tokyo
Japanese designer Nosigner created the space for an exhibition called Techtile at the University of Tokyo last November. More about Techtile exhibition design by Nosigner
It's a new year, so it's time to do the accounts. 2007 was our first year and it was a great start: Dezeen got 2.5 million unique visitors in total, and 4.5 million page loads. More about Dezeen's end of year traffic report
Following the popularity of our Designer Christmas Cards post, here are a few New Year cards we've received from designer folk out there. Above: Kam Tang. Meanwhile Happy New Year from us, thanks for visiting and see you in 2008! More about Designer New Year cards
Design Miami 07: here is our sixth movie from Design Miami in December, featuring the As Long As It Lasts tattoo parlour set up by Tobias Wong, Josée Lepage and Aric Chen (who is interviewed in this film). Movie length: 38 seconds. More about Movie: pop-up tattoo parlour at Design Miami
Amer Alhassan of AAArchitects has renovated the auditorium at the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI NIRIA) in The Hague. More about KIVI NIRIA auditorium by AAArchitects
Designer and illustrator Katrin Olina created a mural called Spur for the VIP room at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More about Spur by Katrin Olina
Oktokki Space Center is the third of our trio of projects by Korean architects Mass Studies. More about Oktokki Space Center by Mass Studies
The second of our three recent buildings by Korean architects Mass Studies is the Xi Gallery in Pusan. More about Xi Gallery by Mass Studies
Here is the first of three recent projects by Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies: the Ann Demeulemeester Shop in the Gangham district of Seoul. More about Ann Demeulemeester Shop in Seoul by Mass Studies
Interior architects Universal Design Studio have completed a new flagship store in London for clothing brand Reiss. More about Reiss flagship store by Universal Design Studio
Designer Ross McBride of Tokyo-based Normal presented a new collection of clocks and watches at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More about Normal timepieces by Ross McBride
David Kohn Architects' design for Heterotopia, a zero carbon art garden at the Thames Gateway, has been shortlisted for the RIBA London and Arts Council England ideas competition 'Arts Space of the Future'. More about Heterotopia by David Kohn Architects
Norwegian architects Snøhetta have completed Petter Dass Museum, a building cut into solid rock on a remote Fjord in Norway. More about Petter Dass Museum by Snøhetta
Reborn is the name of a bath and water faucet developed by Chinese designers Being Object. More about Reborn by Being Object
Japanese lighting designer Chihiro Tanaka has produced two new products, one inspired by cherry blossom and one by "shimmering aurora and sublime mountain folds". More about Onduler and Sakulight by Chihiro Tanaka
A 1927 tea infuser by Marianne Brandt has sold at auction for $361,000, breaking the sale record for Bauhaus design. More about The 1,000 teapot: Marianne Brandt breaks Bauhaus auction record