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Quebec studio Atelier Pierre Thibault's portfolio is filled with remote getaways around Canada. Here are five houses the firm has designed that make the most of their wooded settings. Read more

Five years ago this week OMA won a competition to design the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year. Klein Dytham Architecture completed their Moku Moku Yu baths in Japan’s Southern Alps, Tate Britain appointed Caruso St John Architects to modernise their Millbank gallery and we continued our coverage from Design Miami including pieces by Zaha Hadid, Bodo Sperlein and Studio Job. The one-month-old Dezeen was getting ready to celebrate it’s first Christmas and received a lovely Christmas card designed by Thomas Heatherwick. See all our stories from December 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img>…

This time five years ago Dezeen was less than a month old and reported from Design Miami, where Kanye West took time out from snapping up pieces by the Campana Brothers to tell us about his new apartment by minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin. Back in London we published pictures of the design, our first story to go viral. More on this in our birthday roundup of our most memorable trips! We also interviewed gallerist Murray Moss and showed new pieces by Barnaby Barford, Maarten Baas and Fredrikson Stallard. Our first attempt at a Friday gossip update noted Justin McGuirk’s appointment as editor of Icon magazine (where he stayed until last year) and Marcel Wanders’ p…

Five years ago this week the Zaha Hadid – Architecture and Design exhibition opened at the Design Museum in London and Dezeen were reporting live from the show as well as running the exhibition blog. (more…) View the full article

On 17 November 2006 Dezeen published its first ever story about the Design Museum dropping the Designer of the Year award. That week we also reported on the resignation of Wallpaper editor Jeremy Langmead and the announcement that Jaime Hayon would be one of the speakers at the following year’s Design Indaba conference. Our first image-based story was a new collection of furniture by Ineke Hans, including chairs wrapped in bandages and lamps covered in tape. See all our stories from November 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week the late Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone, and went on to sell over a hundred million of them. Following their competition win, we revealed new images of the OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year, and Brazilian brothers the Campanas completed the interior of a Camper shoe store in Berlin. Marc Newson designed a set of children’s toys for furniture store Habitat, who have since closed all but three of their UK shops, and we featured a farmhouse-style restaurant and traditional bakery by British architects FAT, located next door to the remaining Tottenham Court Road branch of Habitat. See all our stories…

This time five years ago Dezeen visited Stockholm Furniture Fair for the very first time, where we saw an artificial garden created by designer and guest of honour Konstantin Grcic, as well as installations by up and coming designers at the Greenhouse show. We reported on the graphic design of three different magazines - the makeover of Portuguese national newspaper Público, the new look for British architecture newspaper Building Design and brand new lifestyle magazine Monocle, which is now celebrating its fifth birthday. British architects FAT revealed images of a decorative school facade that one Dezeen reader thought was “strange stuff” plus we featured misty imag…

Five years ago designers were injecting an element of fun into their projects: Nendo created a climbing wall of picture frames (above) at a fitness club, while architects BIG designed a winter resort hotel where guests could ski down the roof (below). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week a restaurant by Philippe Starck opened in Beijing filled with chandeliers and velvet, while Foster + Partners revealed plans for Moscow that involved replacing a famous communist landmark. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week Dezeen was in Dubai, reporting on the jaw-dropping architectural projects being proposed for the Gulf states including a raised city in the shape of a cloud, an inhabited mountain-top dam and a convention centre that resembles the Death Star. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week we published images of the six finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, including the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio. A monumental building for Dubai Opera in the United Arab Emirates by Jean Nouvel was described by readers as “vulgar” and “ugly” and we created an interactive map of major architectural projects in the Gulf states. Images of a structure by Arne Quinze for the Burning Man festival made from 150km of wooden laths attracted plenty of attention and Zaha Hadid designed an exhibition centre with two adjoining residential towers in Moscow. Meanwhile we continued to round up projects from the Mila…

This week five years ago fashion projects were catching our attention, including garments based on the inkblot patterns of the Rorschach psychological test and polo shirts covered in a plastic crocodile skin. We also featured limited edition jewellery pieces by designers Marcel Wanders and Arik Levy, which followed the collection of sportswear Levy had launched the week before. Also that week, architects Herzog & de Meuron revealed images of the VitraHaus, a furniture showroom of five stacked barns that was completed three years later. See all our stories from July 2007 » View the full article

Five years ago we were the first to publish images of an apartment designed for Kanye West by architect Claudio Silvestrin, following a chance encounter with the musician during Design Miami 2006. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and actress Kate Winslet were the latest stars to design toys for furniture store Habitat, while Brazilian designers the Campanas revealed designs for chairs made from Disney cuddly toys. We featured photographs of a rather dark pavilion by architect David Adjaye, as well as a more colourful one by Zaha Hadid at furniture fair imm cologne, and we offered our congratulations to Thomas Heatherwick and Maisie Rowe on the birth of their twins. </img&gt…

This time five years ago designer Fabio Novembre created an interior filled with winding ribbons of Corian for a shoe shop in Rome and we published images of Tadao Ando’s building for the Issey Miyake Foundation as it neared completion. Australian designer Marc Newson was named Designer of the Year at Design Miami and a fluid tower by Los Angeles firm Morphosis won a competition for a mixed-use development in Paris’s business district. See all our stories from November 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week five years ago it seemed like everyone was talking about the logo created by graphic designers Wolff Olins for the London 2012 Olympics. British tabloid The Sun claimed the accompanying video could trigger epileptic fits, while Dezeen readers couldn’t believe it cost £400,000 and even questioned whether it was a hoax. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week woven materials and netting featured heavily in architecture and design, as Thomas Heatherwick completed an undulating facade of woven steel around the entrance to a London hospital (above) and graduate designer Sarah Moucher presented a light made from removable ceramic links (below). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. The whole Dezeen team was on holiday (there were fewer of us back then) so we featured projects from the first book by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Twenty-First Century Design, including Marcel Wanders’ Airborne Snotty Vases, and the Millau Viaduct by Foster & Partners. See all our stories from March 2007 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago, when Dezeen was still in its infancy, we travelled to Cape Town for the 10th Design Indaba conference. From here, we shared links to movies showing Swedish designers Front questioning whether or not design makes people happy, as well as some snapshots from the party where guests included Jaime Hayon, Jasper Morrison, Michael Young and Neville Brody. We gave readers a sneak preview of the furniture Rolf Sachs proceeded to show at the Milan furniture fair in April, as well as a look at the bathroom collection that Ross Lovegrove went on to launch in Frankfurt. Vases made from salvaged sherry glasses, plastic animals and PVC caught the attention of a few …

Five years ago Foster + Partners unveiled ambitious proposals for a “zero carbon, zero waste” development in Abu Dhabi to be planned like an ancient walled city and OMA designed a Death Star-like convention centre, also for the United Arab Emirates. Andrea Salvetti showed chairs that look like nests, cupboards resembling giant logs, super-sized eggs and a giant filigree mushroom. We also showed our readers what we thought might have been the best new chair from Milan and published a set of bird houses designed to look like little churches. In London, students from the Royal College of Art exhibited knuckledusters that leave messages on skin, plates for arguing couples t…

Transport design was hot news five years ago: architect Zaha Hadid unveiled a three-wheeled concept vehicle (above) while Boeing launched the revolutionary Dreamliner jet and Fiat revamped the much-loved Fiat 500 (below). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago Dezeen travelled to Basel, Switzerland, for the annual Design Miami/Basel fair, where a host of designers including Martino Gamper, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas, Max Lamb and Kiki van Eijk were creating objects and furniture in front of visitors at the height of the fashion for design performances. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week Dezeen arrived in Milan for the 2007 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we saw a lamp comprising a cluster of writhing human bodies and a vase made by bees. Both Phillippe Starck and Ron Arad were presenting new chairs for furniture brand Driade, while Toyo Ito showed a spherical light made from layers of delicate fibre mesh. Elsewhere Established and Sons launched their cartoon graphics-style cabinets alongside Jasper Morrison’s storage units that look like crates. Back in the UK, we revealed the news that Jean Nouvel was to design the new Philharmonie de Paris, although a series of financial problems have stalled its construction, and UNS…

Five years ago, when Dezeen was just three weeks old, Thomas Heatherwick’s East Beach Cafe was still taking shape on the English south coast, Zaha Hadid presented a range of Seamless furniture at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York and The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston released images of its new waterfront cultural centre by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. See all our stories from December 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week five years ago our readers were all talking about goldfish, as designer Roger Arquer presented a series of unusual bowls including one with a plug (above) and another that makes a fish share water with a plant (below). (more…) View the full article

This time five years ago the concrete formwork of Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts was only just beginning to take shape in Rome. The building finally completed in 2009 and went on to win the Stirling Prize the following year. Meanwhile, the Gagosian Gallery in New York revealed images of a new marble table being shown later that month designed by Australian-born designer Marc Newson, who was this year awarded a CBE for services to design in the UK and worldwide. We featured a globe lampshade that slots around a light bulb and a set of bookshelves that fit into any alcove, while our readers were all preoccupied with trying to get their hands on a lycra ca…