Studio Ayaskan designs clock that rakes sand to illustrate the ripples of time
London design duo Studio Ayaskan has created a clock, which rakes sand in hypnotic, concentric circles to mark the passage of time. More
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Dimore Gallery presents metallic Gabriella Crespi furniture amongst sand dunes
Produced for Milan's Dimore Gallery, seven pieces of furniture by the late artist Gabriella Crespi are installed them among piles of sand for an exhibition called Visioni. More
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Ment designs tableware for Snøhetta's Under restaurant using local sand
Norwegian design studio Ment has created handcrafted tableware for Snøhetta's recently completed underwater restaurant in Norway using sand and minerals taken from the surrounding coast. More
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Katie Paterson invites UK public to build sand mountains
Bioplastic buckets in the shape of mountains will be distributed across 25 UK beaches this summer as part of a participatory art project by artist Katie Paterson. More
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New material made from desert sand could offer low-carbon alternative to concrete
A team of scientists in the UK have developed a biodegradable construction material made from desert sand – a resource that has until now been useless for construction. More
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Sand becomes "increasingly scarce and expensive", threatening glassmaking and construction
A symposium taking place at Dutch Design Week later this month will discuss the rapid depletion of the world's sand reserves, which could leave supplies of the high-quality sand used in the glass industry exhausted within 20 years. More
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Atelier NL calls for sand samples from all over the world to make region-specific glass
Design studio Atelier NL is calling on people to send them sand from around the world for a project they will present as ambassadors at this year's Dutch Design Week. More
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Jon McTaggart forms sand bowls using robot-injected resin
These bowls are formed by a robot that injects paths of resin into sand-filled containers, forming solidified objects that are then dug out like ancient artefacts (+ movie). More
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Patterns of sand shift over time in Frida Escobedo's installation for Aesop
Layers of sand that resemble a mountainous landscape will gradually move and change shape for the duration of this installation by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo for skincare brand Aesop's New York pop-up shop. More
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Stools made of sand and urine by Peter Trimble
Edinburgh College of Art student Peter Trimble has built a portable machine for manufacturing furniture from sand, urine and bacteria (+ slideshow). More
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Gijs van Bon's Skryf machine "writes poems on the ground with sand"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, artist Gijs van Bon shows us his machine called Skryf, which prints a trail of sand behind it to form letters on the ground. More
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A pile of sand marks the entrance to Design Miami
Design Miami 2013: giant mound of sand appears to support an aluminium roof at New York studio Formlessfinder's Tent Pile installation outside this year's Design Miami fair, which opens to the public today (+ slideshow). More
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Design Miami pavilion to feature a pile of sand
Design Miami 2013: the entrance pavilion for the Design Miami collectors' fair in December will comprise a mound of sand with an aluminium roof perched on top. More
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Master Plan by Chad Wright
Californian designer Chad Wright has made a sandcastle mould of a typical American house to recreate post-war suburbia on the beach (+ slideshow). More
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Memorabilia Factory by Bold-design
To prove that germs aren't all bad, Paris-based studio Bold-design came up with an activity kit that uses bacteria to turn sand from the beach into stone souvenirs (+ slideshow). More
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Dezeen archive: sand
Dezeen archive: this week one of our most popular stories was about a robot that builds architectural structures from sand (bottom left), so our latest archive is all about sand. See all all the stories »
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Stone Spray Robot by Anna Kulik, Inder Shergill and Petr Novikov
Students from Barcelona's Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia have built a robotic 3D printer that creates architectural structures from sand or soil (+ movie). More
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A Sign in Space by Gunilla Klingberg
Stars are printed in the sand by a tractor as it drags a giant roller back and forth across the beach, then left to fade at the mercy of footsteps and the tide in this installation by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg. More
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Plastic bottles filled with sand used to build houses in Nigeria
Discarded bottles sourced from hotels, restaurants, homes and foreign embassies are being filled with sand and used as bricks to create curved-walled houses in a Nigerian village. More
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Desert Storm by Nir Meiri
Qubique 2011: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri uses desert sand to create these tactile moulded lights. More
