News Feed

Dutch Design Week: designer Kiki van Eijk presents a cabinet that opens like a giant sewing box at her studio in Eindhoven this week as part of Dutch Design Week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

German practice J. Mayer H. has replaced the gridded facade of a 1950s office building with organically curved glass and white render. (more…) View the full article

London architecture team Softkill Design has designed a conceptual house that would be 3D printed in sections in a factory and fitted together on site (+ interview transcript). (more…) View the full article

News: while Foster + Partners thinks simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York’s Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM have proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Murat Cengiz of Tabanlioglu Architects says that Turkey has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world because they have ”learnt how to be in a crisis,” in this interview we filmed about the firm’s airport project that topped the transport category at this year’s World Architecture Festival. (more…) View the full article

The only way to watch a film at this unconventional cinema in Guimarães, Portugal, is by manoeuvring your upper body into one of 16 downward-pointing nozzles. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’re offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of this year’s Dutch Design Yearbook, featuring exemplary designs produced in the Netherlands over the past year. (more…) View the full article

These candle holders by French designer Marie Dessuant come with handy inner compartments and were designed for British furniture brand Another Country. (more…) View the full article

Architects Estudio BaBO clad these three wooden houses in Patagonia, Argentina, with black-painted cypress so that they would look “as monolithic as possible” (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This weekend fishing retreat by Ian Shaw Architekten hangs over the edge of a lake in Siegen, Germany (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie, Australian architect Jeff Morehen of Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how the workplaces of the future should be “more hybrid in their nature” and accommodate public facilities, just like his Darling Quarter offices in Sydney that won the office category at the World Architecture Festival this month. (more…) View the full article

This terrace of eight houses by Peter Barber Architects is clad with timber shingles to match the neighbouring fences and sheds of a housing estate in east London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: this animation by filmmaker Christian Borstlap celebrates fashion house Louis Vuitton and has won the award for best Dutch design project at this year’s Dutch Design Awards (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: American studio Höweler + Yoon Architecture has won the Audi Urban Future Award 2012 with a concept to combine individual and public transport in the region between Boston and Washington nicknamed BosWash (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: Dezeen editor Rose Etherington selects her top ten projects from the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week, including a system for decontaminating polluted land using plants and a method for turning debris from demolished buildings into new construction materials. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Universal Design Studio and Russell Sage Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Paul Cocksedge (above), Tom Dixon, Syracuse University and more… (more…) View the full article

Curator and writer Daniel Charny has teamed up with Sugru’s James Carrigan to launch Fixperts, a matchmaking service that introduces inventive designers to people with everyday design problems (+ movies). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio UID Architects often place gardens inside buildings and this house in Fukuyama is no exception (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a range of drinking glasses, jugs and vases incorporating dye that generates electricity from sunlight by Marjan van Aubel has won the DOEN Materiaalprijs at Dutch Design Week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Alison Brooks Architects has extended a nineteenth century house in north London by adding two tapered volumes that project into the garden (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lamps often have heavy bases to steady them, making them awkward and costly to ship, so London-based Studio Tord Boontje swapped them for empty baskets which can be filled with objects like stones, books or apples. (more…) View the full article

This timber-clad cafe by architect Tony Fretton was designed as an upside-down interpretation of the neighbouring Tower of London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Beijing Design Week: traditional Chinese motifs inspired these screens made of steel that’s normally used to reinforce buildings by design studio MICROmacro Lab. (more…) View the full article

News: consumers can save money by printing products at home rather than shopping for them, according to Janne Kyttanen, co-founder of design studio Freedom of Creation and creative director of 3D printer company 3D Systems (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial: Belgian design studio Unfold used open source components including a filter made of 3D printed ceramic to build this water boiler and purifier, which could be used in the developing world. (more…) View the full article