Five years ago this week Herzog & de Meuron received planning permission for their extension to the Tate Modern gallery in London and construction began on Jean Nouvel's 100 11th Avenue development in New York. More about Five years ago...
Richard Rogers scooped the Pritzker Prize five years ago this week. More about Five years ago...
Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. More about Five years ago...
Five years ago this week a restaurant by Philippe Starck opened in Beijing filled with chandeliers and velvet, while Foster + Partners revealed plans for Moscow that involved replacing a famous communist landmark. More about 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...
Five years ago this week we chatted to Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana as they unveiled their chairs made from Disney cuddly toys in London. More about Five years ago...
Five years ago, when Dezeen was still in its infancy, we travelled to Cape Town for the 10th Design Indaba conference. From here, we shared links to movies showing Swedish designers Front questioning whether or not design makes people happy, as well as some snapshots from the party where guests included Jaime Hayon, Jasper Morrison, Michael Young and Neville Brody. More about Five years ago...
This time five years ago Dezeen visited Stockholm Furniture Fair for the very first time, where we saw an artificial garden created by designer and guest of honour Konstantin Grcic, as well as installations by up and coming designers at the Greenhouse show. More about Five years ago...
Five years ago this week an all-star lineup of architects comprising Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando released proposals for a cultural complex on an island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. Hadid's designs were for a performing arts centre projecting towards the harbour while Gehry put forward plans for a Guggenheim contemporary art museum, Nouvel proposed a Louvre classical art gallery and Ando designed a maritime museum. All four are currently still in development. More about Five years ago...
This time five years ago the concrete formwork of Zaha Hadid's MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts was only just beginning to take shape in Rome. The building finally completed in 2009 and went on to win the Stirling Prize the following year. More about Five years ago...
Five years ago we were the first to publish images of an apartment designed for Kanye West by architect Claudio Silvestrin, following a chance encounter with the musician during Design Miami 2006. More about Five years ago...
Five years ago this week the late Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone, and went on to sell over a hundred million of them. More about Five years ago...
Five years ago this week OMA won a competition to design the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year. More about Five years ago
This time five years ago Dezeen was less than a month old and reported from Design Miami, where Kanye West took time out from snapping up pieces by the Campana Brothers to tell us about his new apartment by minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin. More about Five years ago
Five years ago, when Dezeen was just three weeks old, Thomas Heatherwick's East Beach Cafe was still taking shape on the English south coast, Zaha Hadid presented a range of Seamless furniture at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York and The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston released images of its new waterfront cultural centre by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
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This time five years ago designer Fabio Novembre created an interior filled with winding ribbons of Corian for a shoe shop in Rome and we published images of Tadao Ando's building for the Issey Miyake Foundation as it neared completion. More about Five years ago...
On 17 November 2006 Dezeen published its first ever story about the Design Museum dropping the Designer of the Year award. More about Five years ago...