News Feed

Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have announced the category winners for the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: as we’ve been bombarded by beautiful Australian houses in recent weeks and our story from last week about a cliff-top house inspired by a Picasso painting (top left) continues to be popular with readers, we’ve grouped together all our stories about houses in Australia. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rough grey slate and red-stained wood panels infill a zig-zagging stone frame on the exterior of a house in Venlo, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese architects Grau.Zero have completed a house in Santo Tirso, near Porto, where one end peels up from the ground. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following the riots in the UK this week and our popular recent story about a steel-plated house (bottom left), which one reader though might come in handy in a zombie apocalypse, we’ve compiled a selection of stories about bunkers and other fortified buildings. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin design duo Osko+Deichmann will present a collection of tubular steel and pine furniture at Helmrinderknecht Gallery for Contemporary Design in Berlin later this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

What appears to be an open tunnel beneath a bridge in northern Spain is in fact a concealed passageway, screened behind a secret mirror. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Criss-crossing metal beams surround a first floor reading room at a multimedia library near Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with Paul Priestman of design consultancy Priestmangoode to give away five Water Pebbles, designed to reduce water consumption while showering. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our most popular story this week featured a steel-plated house with a drawbridge-like flap that one reader thought might come in useful in a zombie apocalypse. Other hotly debated stories included a Mumbai office block sandwiched between a corporate complex and a slum and a leaning house with a tree growing inside. Meanwhile we revealed the first image of the kilometre-high Kingdom Tower, which is set to become the world’s tallest building, whilst sales of air-conditioned clothing continued to increase in Japan and cause power shortages. Highlights from Dezeen Screen include interviews with designers and curators at the Blickfang designworkshop in Vienna, an und…

London studio Post-Office have completed a boutique in Notting Hill with rails made of bronze-plated scaffolding. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Overlapping walls of curving concrete encase this funeral chapel in Graz by Austrian architects Hofrichter-Ritter. (more…) View the full article

Sun-bleached pinks, sandy-beiges and gold decor appear inside this hotel, which Richards and Spence has designed to reference to Brisbane's balmy climate. Read more

Amsterdam architects O+A have designed a conceptual floating swimming platform for the river IJ in Amsterdam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: international designers including James Irvine, Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison have created a collection of marble furniture for Italian stone company Marsotto, unveiled this week in Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Icelandic fashion designer Una Hlin Kristjansdottir presented her first collection at the inaugural Reykjavík Fashion Festival as part of Icelandic design festival DesignMarch at the weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: Kingston University graduate Andre Pereira has created a series of products to help with tricky DIY tasks, including these paint brushes that clip onto the edge of a tin of paint. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have unveiled plans for a new headquarters for the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago OMA, Foster + Partners and local firm Rocco Design Architects were competing to to create a master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. Foster + Partners won in the end, as reported in March this year. Our most popular story was a house in Indonesia by Aboday with a concrete slide connecting the bedroom and kitchen, which turned out to be our most popular story of the whole year. If you prefer slides to stairs you can see more of them here. Meanwhile Ross Lovegrove unveiled his bicycle for Biomega, graduate designer José Ferrufino made a magical musical box with swaying ears of barley and Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten made a…

Dutch studio Bureau B+B have completed a house on a country estate in the Netherlands with a thatched roof but no eves. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Schuichiro Yoshida have renovated the ground floor of a residence in Tokushima, Japan, by replacing the existing building with a Japanese cedar structure. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another update from the cutting edge of toilet design: Copenhagen studio UiWE are working on urinals for women. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen our most popular story was the redesign of McDonald’s interiors in France by Patrick Norguet, which encouraged readers to suggest that they redesign their food next, while a mountain lodge that you can ski over by Fantastic Norway also attracted plenty of attention. The week’s more bizarre offerings included a proposal for a tower built by flying robots and a walkway that looks like a rollercoaster, while a house in Hiroshima by Suppose Design Office provoked discussion on the introverted tendency of Japanese houses to block out the surrounding neighbourhood. We’ve announced more designers and brands taking part in our Christmas shop The Temporium …

This time last year Yves Béhar launched a waterproof sex toy and John Pawson had a solo exhibition of his work at the Design Museum in London. Ole Scheeren opened his new studio, having left OMA in March 2010, Pugh + Scarpa announced their decision to split and Alexis Georgacopoulos was appointed director of ECAL. Meanwhile Foreign Office Architects completed their tile-clad Ravensbourne campus and Eastern Design Office completed a house for a dying client. The Hel Yes! temporary Finnish restaurant opened in London, Studio Toogood released a collection of handles modelled on sticks, stones and bones, and Dutch architects Bureau SLA finished the National Gl…

Japanese architect Yusuke Fujitat has sent us some photos of an apartment renovation project in Midorigaoka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article