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    Five years ago Zaha Hadid's installation at the Venice Biennale (above) featured sculptural, shiny forms, which cropped up in a lot of designers' work around the same time. More

    Dan Howarth | 19 August 2012 | Leave a comment
  • Fish Bowls by Roger Arquer

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    This week five years ago our readers were all talking about goldfish, as designer Roger Arquer presented a series of unusual bowls including one with a plug (above) and another that makes a fish share water with a plant (below). More

    Amy Frearson | 12 August 2012 | Leave a comment
  • Boiler Suit by Thomas Heatherwick

    Five years ago...

    Five years ago this week woven materials and netting featured heavily in architecture and design, as Thomas Heatherwick completed an undulating facade of woven steel around the entrance to a London hospital (above) and graduate designer Sarah Moucher presented a light made from removable ceramic links (below). More

    Dan Howarth | 5 August 2012 | Leave a comment
  • Illoiha Omotesando climbing wall by Nendo

    Five years ago...

    Five years ago designers were injecting an element of fun into their projects: Nendo created a climbing wall of picture frames (above) at a fitness club, while architects BIG designed a winter resort hotel where guests could ski down the roof (below). More

    Amy Frearson | 29 July 2012 | Leave a comment
  • Akron Art Museum by Coop Himmelb(l)au

    Five years ago...

    Museums, galleries, exhibitions and installations were in the news this week five years ago, as Coop Himmelb(l)au's extension to the Akron Art Museum opened in Ohio (above) and the winner of a competition to design a museum dedicated to the ice age (below) was announced for Siberia. More

    Dan Howarth | 22 July 2012 | Leave a comment
  • RAK Gateway by OMA

    Five years ago...

    It was a busy time for architects OMA this week five years ago, as they released designs for major projects that included a large urban development in the United Arab Emirates (above) and a 300-metre skyscraper in Mexico City (below). More

    Amy Frearson | 15 July 2012 | 1 comment
  • Z.Car by Zaha Hadid

    Five years ago...

    Transport design was hot news five years ago: architect Zaha Hadid unveiled a three-wheeled concept vehicle (above) while Boeing launched the revolutionary Dreamliner jet and Fiat revamped the much-loved Fiat 500 (below). More

    Marcus Fairs | 8 July 2012 | Leave a comment
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    This week five years ago fashion projects were catching our attention, including garments based on the inkblot patterns of the Rorschach psychological test and polo shirts covered in a plastic crocodile skin. More

    Amy Frearson | 1 July 2012 | Leave a comment
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    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

    Rose Etherington | 24 June 2012 | Leave a comment
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    This week five years ago Dezeen was at the opening of the Royal College of Art's 2007 summer show, where graduate designers were exhibiting jewellery made from sugar crystals and pencils, a chandelier-making machine and digitally recreated snowflakes. More

    Amy Frearson | 17 June 2012 | Leave a comment
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    Five years ago Dezeen travelled to Basel, Switzerland, for the annual Design Miami/Basel fair, where a host of designers including Martino Gamper, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas, Max Lamb and Kiki van Eijk were creating objects and furniture in front of visitors at the height of the fashion for design performances. More

    Amy Frearson | 10 June 2012 | Leave a comment
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    This week five years ago it seemed like everyone was talking about the logo created by graphic designers Wolff Olins for the London 2012 Olympics. British tabloid The Sun claimed the accompanying video could trigger epileptic fits, while Dezeen readers couldn't believe it cost £400,000 and even questioned whether it was a hoax. More

    Amy Frearson | 3 June 2012 | Leave a comment
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    Five years ago this week Dezeen was in Dubai, reporting on the jaw-dropping architectural projects being proposed for the Gulf states including a raised city in the shape of a cloud, an inhabited mountain-top dam and a convention centre that resembles the Death Star. More

    Marcus Fairs | 27 May 2012 | Leave a comment
  • Five years ago

    Five years ago...

    Five years ago this week a huge new stadium by Foster + Partners opened in London, while yet more radical projects were proposed for the United Arab Emirates, including a bulging office block by Zaha Hadid and a revolving skyscraper. More

    Rose Etherington | 20 May 2012 | Leave a comment
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    Five years ago Daniel Libeskind designed his first piece of commercial furniture, the Campana Brothers presented plastic garden furniture wrapped in wicker and Zaha Hadid recreated some of her buildings as three-dimensional wall art. More

    Amy Frearson | 13 May 2012 | Leave a comment
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    Five years ago this week, the building boom in the United Arab Emirates was in full swing, with architects Foster + Partners, OMA and Jean Nouvel unveiling mind-boggling projects. More

    Amy Frearson | 6 May 2012 | Leave a comment
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    Five years ago this week we published images of the six finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, including the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 29 April 2012 | 2 comments
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    Five years ago...

    Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. More

    Amy Frearson | 22 April 2012 | Leave a comment
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    Five years ago...

    Five years ago this week Dezeen arrived in Milan for the 2007 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we saw a lamp comprising a cluster of writhing human bodies and a vase made by bees. More

    Amy Frearson | 15 April 2012 | Leave a comment
  • Five years ago

    Five years ago...

    Five years ago Dezeen was gaining momentum and we were pleased to have been named as one of the ten most popular architecture blogs in the world by eikongraphia.com. A couple of weeks ago we were named #01 in the Best Blogs list of top 50 design blogs. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 8 April 2012 | Leave a comment
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