OMA's CCTV building reconstructed as a wooden cabinet
Design Miami 2014: a wardrobe by Chinese designer Naihan Li shaped like OMA's CCTV tower in Beijing will go on show at Design Miami next month. More
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Nigel Stanford makes sound visible for Cymatics music video
Music: this video by New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford shows a series of experiments that demonstrate how sound waves affect different types of matter. More
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Quell & Company designs iPhone dock to be "at home in the home"
American brand Quell & Company has referenced Scandinavian home design for its first product: a docking station made from white oak, Merino wool felt and a metal base (+ movie). More
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Nendo's 3D-moulded light shades use traditional washi paper
Japanese studio Nendo has teamed up with a traditional Japanese paper moulding specialist to create a collection of pendant light shades with a coloured exterior and reflective interior (+ slideshow). More
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London's latest canal bridge rises and falls like the opening and closing of a fan
British firm Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT II have completed a moving footbridge in Paddington, London, that opens and closes like the blades of a traditional hand-held fan. More
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"Six points of viral architecture"
Opinion: the way we consume architecture online has changed thanks to social media, creating a new genre of imagery – meme-tecture. Alexandra Lange offers her guide to making an architectural meme. More
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Mobile furniture and giant hammocks allow work and play inside a Russian home
A mezzanine hammock, an adaptable seating cube on wheels, and a combined staircase and bookshelf have been added to this play and study space for a brother and sister, designed by Russian studio Ruetemple (+ slideshow). More
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Competition: five copies of Dominic Wilcox's Variations on Normal book to be won
Competition: Dezeen has partnered with British artist and designer Dominic Wilcox to give away five copies of Variations on Normal, his illustrated hardback book of absurd inventions. More
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Rotating rooms give Sharifi-ha House by Next Office a shape-shifting facade
Swivelling pods allow the owners of this house in Tehran to adapt to Iran's fluctuating temperatures by opening up rooms in summer, or turning them inwards during winter. More
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OP-light by Bilge Nur Saltik creates luminous optical illusions
London Design Festival 2014: Turkish designer Bilge Nur Saltik has created a wall lamp from textured panels that rotates to form moving light patterns across its surface. More
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Inside Out Hanger by A'postrophe Design transforms to hold more than one shirt
This clothes hanger by German studio A'postrophe Design twists into a new shape to hold multiple garments and save space in the wardrobe (+ slideshow). More
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Hayo Gebauer's Moiré Mirror rotates to reveal changing patterns
A light source behind this mirror by graduate designer Hayo Gebauer is revealed through patterns on rotating disks that create a moiré effect. More
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NAS Architecture's seaside Breath Box is covered in mirrors that flap in the wind
Over 300 mirrored flaps are lifted up and down by the breeze to animate the facade of this seaside structure in La Grande Motte, France, by NAS Architecture (+ slideshow). More
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Estel Alcaraz designs wellington boots you can squash into a bag
With heavy rain forecast for this weekend's Glastonbury, festival-goers will be wishing they had a pair of these lightweight wellington boots that can be rolled up and stuffed in a bag (+ movie). More
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Different glasses stack together in Ding3000's La Famiglia set
German studio Ding3000 has tweaked different types of drinking glasses to create a family of vessels that takes up less space in the cupboard. More
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Sinjinmal Building by Studio GAON occupies its site like "a book in an empty shelf"
Measuring just four metres wide, this glass and concrete cultural building has been inserted between an industrial district and a historic 17th century house in Incheon, South Korea (+ slideshow). More
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Mori pendant lamps by Rich Brilliant Willing encase light in a cocoon
Webbed fabric is stretched over crossed wire hoops to form these cocoon-like pendant lamps by New York studio Rich Brilliant Willing. More
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Samuel Wilkinson's Thirty lamp rotates at a constant angle
British designer Samuel Wilkinson has launched a LED light for Swedish brand Zero that can be rotated at an angle to the ceiling or wall (+ slideshow). More
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Brick-shaped vase by Paul Menand holds flowers in two ways
This ceramic vase by French designer Paul Menand can be stood upright or laid horizontally to adapt to the size of flowers it holds. More
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15Folds presents augmented reality exhibition of animated gif art
A London exhibition of animated gifs allowed visitors to view artworks via a custom-designed app on a smart phone or tablet using augmented reality. More
