This week on Dezeen
This week's highlights include starchitects excavating a London park, a movie involving Dita Von Teese and a stiletto and a chocolate penis... read on for full details of the week on Dezeen. More about This week on Dezeen
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This week the Olympic torch by BarberOsbery won the top prize at the Design Museum's Designs of the Year awards, a decision that divided Dezeen readers and provoked some design critics to question the validity of the awards. More about This week on Dezeen...
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In case you hadn’t noticed, this week we've been in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we've been filming a daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST. Highlights include interviews with Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon and Faye Toogood, plus we've been talking to journalists about this year's hot topics, giving away prizes and touring exhibitions at MOST and elsewhere in the city. Catch up with all the episodes here. More about This week on Dezeen...
This week on Dezeen
This week a group of urban climbers revealed that they'd secretly scaled the 309-metre-high exterior of Renzo Piano's London skyscraper the Shard and J. Mayer H. completed a crooked concrete police station that one reader thought was actually worth getting arrested for. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week a sharp-sided museum dedicated to ill-fated ship the RMS Titanic reminded readers of an iceberg and a Japanese house with a bookcase covering an entire wall raised concerns about the danger of falling books during an earthquake. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week we announced our plans for Milan during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, with Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox setting up camp at new design centre MOST, where we'll be filming a daily TV show with interviews, news and even weather reports. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week we launched Dezeen Music Project, a new initiative to promote new, original music by upcoming musicians. We were also named #01 in the Best Blogs list of top 50 design blogs. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week John McAslan + Partners unveiled the long-awaited remodelling of King’s Cross Station in London, PayPal launched a device for swiping credit cards to take payments on a smartphone, and readers wondered why the roof of the Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems is yellow rather than red. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week we launched our Designed in Hackney initiative to highlight design talent in the east London borough of Hackney, one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games and home to Dezeen’s offices. More details here. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week Chinese architect Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou was named 2012 Pritkzer Prize laureate and we rounded up his key projects. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week sports brand Nike launched a range of knitted running shoes, car brand Mini unveiled a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman and RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi put his award-winning folding plug graduation project into production. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week we introduced slideshows of larger images to the top of selected stories on Dezeen - see the first few examples here, including a museum of handmade paper, stripped-out factories awaiting renovation and a skatepark in Calais. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen we published an interview with industrial designer Marc Newson about his new camera for Pentax. You can also watch highlights from Fabio Novembre's talk about his work and inspirations plus changes in the Italian design scene on Dezeen Screen. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week Marc Newson unveiled the camera he designed for Japanese brand Pentax and Nike launched a wristband that can tell whether you've done any exercise. Meanwhile, Austrian designer Nina Levett caused a stir with a trio of provocative videos that show her at work in her studio. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
Our most controversial story this week announced writer Alain de Botton's plans to erect temples for atheists across the UK - read the story and join the debate here. It also emerged that Disney were selling a T-shirt inspired by the 1979 album cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, but don't rush to order one as they've all sold. We also showed a robe made of golden silk harvested from over a million wild spiders and a tower built by flying robots. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week Richard Meier & Partners unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City, SOM won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago released a report that revealed a record number of skyscrapers were completed in 2011. More about This week on Dezeen
This Week on Dezeen
This week a boat-shaped apartment washed up on the roof of the Southbank Centre in London, dRMM completed a shimmering golden wedding chapel in the British seaside town of Blackpool and we showed images of Renzo Piano's new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. More about This Week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week Peter Zumthor's memorial to suspected witches put to death in Norway captured readers attention, while David Chipperfield was confirmed as architecture curator for this year's Venice Biennale and rapper Kanye West announced plans to launch a design company. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week Thomas Heatherwick unveiled the prototype of his New Bus for London, Snøhetta released proposals for a Maggie’s cancer care centre in Aberdeen and Foster + Partners won a competition to design a high-speed rail station in northwest Spain. More about This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week Steven Holl was announced as the winner of this year's AIA Gold Medal, Danish studio BIG designed another building-cum-ski-slope and MAD released photos of their recently completed "otherworldly" museum in the Gobi desert. More about This week on Dezeen