This movie by photographer Cristobal Palma shows how children playing on roundabouts generate electrical power for three twirling parasols at an installation by Spanish studio Clavel Arquitectos in a Shenzhen public square. More about Movie: Pabellon Ultraligero Centrifugo by Clavel Arquitectos
Dezeen Platform: this movie features Chris and Polly of Wrap, an illustration magazine that's designed to be reused as giftwrap, talking about their latest issue on the theme of Dark Days, Bright Nights. Wrap is currently on sale at our Christmas shop The Temporium. More about Dezeen Platform: Wrap magazine issue three
In this final interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri about his restaurant design within a hotel where cut-outs in the ceiling mean diners can look up into the bedrooms above. More about Inside Awards: Table No.1 by Neri&Hu
In this interview taken from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Nick Barratt-Boyes of Studio Pacific and Ralph Roberts of Warren & Mahoney about their design for a new terminal at Wellington International Airport, where copper-clad structures connect three existing buildings. More about Wellington International Airport by Warren & Mahoney and Studio Pacific
In this latest interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief talks to Marcus Fairs talks to Colin Seah from Ministry of Design about the design of their own office, a former shophouse in Singapore where the rooms and the furniture within them are arranged in rows like a barcode. More about Inside Awards: Bar Code office by Ministry of Design
Norman Foster discusses the significance of two of Buckminster Fuller's most iconic designs in this movie filmed at the Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster exhibition in the Miami Design District. His consideration of the Fly's Eye Dome and the Dymaxion car leads to a description of Fuller's architectural relevance in today's society. More about Architecting the Future at Miami Design District
In this movie filmed by Dezeen at Qubique 2011, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic talks about Cape, his sofa for Established & Sons with a loose cover draped over the structure like a blanket that can be changed with the seasons. More about Konstantin Grcic at Qubique 2011
In this movie filmed at the AXIS Gallery in Tokyo, Japanese studio Nendo exhibit a selection of their projects through a wall of stacked polycarbonate sheets. Viewed through this transparent facade, Nendo's designs become pixelated abstractions which vary as visitors move around the exhibit. More about 50 projects_25 objects + 25 spaces by Nendo
As part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri&Hu about the Waterhouse at South Bund, a hotel inside a former headquarters of the Japanese army, which won the overall award. More about Inside awards: the Waterhouse at South Bund by Neri&Hu
This timelapse movie shows how a group of Oporto University architecture graduates, who call themselves Dose, constructed a spiky temporary bar for a student festival using blue plastic tubes and cable ties. More about Bluetube Bar by Dose
Dezeen Platform: in this interview filmed for our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform, Polish studio mode:lina describe their Audiochmura, a soundscape of London that is played through a cloud of tangled corrugated pipes. More about Dezeen Platform: mode:lina
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will chair a discussion with Milan designer Fabio Novembre at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London tonight as part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro's latest series of talks on Italian design. You'll be able to watch the talk via a live stream on Dezeen Screen from 7pm. More about Peroni Collaborazioni Talk tonight: Fabio Novembre
This video by Gavin Lucas in collaboration with Order involves a visit to Mr Smith's Letterpress Workshop in Kennington, London where Smith explains how he likes to design, set and print using traditional wood and metal type to create contemporary typographic prints. More about Mr Smith's Letterpress Workshop
As part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Alberto Miceli-Farrugia of Architecture Project about their renovation of a property overlooking the Grand Harbour in the Maltese capital of Valletta, which won the creative re-use category.
More about St Barbara Bastions by Architecture ProjectIn this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Qubique 2011 design fair in Berlin last month, designer Jerszy Seymour talks about his series of chairs where components are joined with blobs of wax. More about Interview: Jerszy Seymour at Qubique 2011
As part of our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Russell and Hannah Plumb of JamesPlumb about their interior for outfitters Hostem, which won the retail category. More about Inside Awards: Hostem by JamesPlumb
Inside awards: as part of our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Andy Walker from Nike Football and Sean Pearson from RUFproject about the Football Training Centre in Soweto, which won the culture and civic category. More about Inside awards: Football Training Centre Soweto by RUFproject
In this movie from the Tales of the Hunt series of interviews made by Brussels gallerist Victor Hunt, German designer Johannes Hemann explains how he makes sculptural lamps by generating a storm in his studio. More about Tales of the Hunt: Johannes Hemann
Sebastian Wrong, design director for British brand Established & Sons, gives a tour of their exhibition inside the former fire station at Berlin Tempelhof airport in this movie Dezeen filmed at new Berlin design fair Qubique 2011 last month. More about Sebastian Wrong at Qubique 2011
In this time-lapse movie American furniture designer Matthias Pliessnig wraps an iconic Thonet chair with strips of steam-bent white oak to create a sculpture. More about Wrapping a Thonet Chair by Matthias Pliessnig