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Japanese designers Nendo will present this display unit with shelves that are only 5mm thick at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London next month. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders presents a photographic installation featuring mermaids exploring the Moooi collection at the London Design Festival, which starts today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A group of disused grain silos near Christchurch in New Zealand are being fitted out as motel rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space is now open at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN, Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm and Sunday 11am-5pm until 16 October. Come round and check out the new Dezeen Book of Ideas, our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up, our live video and blogging studio, specially commissioned sculptures by Dominic Wilcox, an exclusive new product by Paul Cocksedge and a chandelier installation by Plumen, plus a fresh exhibit every day on Dezeen Platform. See you there! </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform kicks off at Dezeen Space today, with architect/shoe designer Julian Hakes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the London Design Festival was in full swing with Kram/Weisshaar’s robotic display lighting up Trafalgar Square, Paul Cocksedge‘s giant magnetic coin crash-landing at the Southbank and Stuart Haygarth’s staircase covered in picture frames at the Victoria & Albert museum. Alasdhair Willis resigned as chief executive of Established & Sons and Thomas Heatherwick won the London Design Medal 2010. Meanwhile Marc Newson designed a range of limited-edition shoes for NIKE and Jaime Hayón launched a collection of furniture for London design brand Sé. John Pawson talked to us about an exhibition of his work at the Design Museum in one of o…

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed by Juriaan Booij for design brand De La Espada, British furniture designer Matthew Hilton talks about working in wood and how his love of photography informs his designs. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week the first of the London Design Festival events opened, including John Pawson’s installation at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bouroullec brothers’ Textile Field at the Victoria & Albert museum. Dezeen Space opens tomorrow at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN. Dyson launched a new heater that takes its cue from their Air-Multiplier bladeless fans and Icon magazine celebrated its 100th issue. A handy hotel for napping at airports popped up in Moscow, the RIBA unveiled the shorlisted entries for their Pylon of the Future competition and we rounded up our stories featuring Corten steel, including a see-through church. A film showing the const…

Grey plaster walls contrast with tan-coloured window frames at a hillside holiday house in Střekov by Czech architects 3+1 Architekti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Timber Wave is a three-storey-high red-oak sculpture, installed outside the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. Watch an interview with architect Amanda Levete and festival director Ben Evans, plus a movie about the manufacturing the complex structure on Dezeen Screen » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: O, a watch by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka for fashion band Issey Miyake, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Dezeen Space pop-up from tomorrow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss architects HHF and French architects AWP have won a competition to design a series of follies for a new park outside Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A bare cliff face is visible through the abutting glass walls of a Jerusalem house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A chunky timber shell wraps over the north facade and roof of a woodland retreat near Berlin by German architects Scheidt Kasprusch. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have laid a stripy field of fabric inside the Raphael Court of the V&A museum as part of the London Design Festival. You can see an animation of the project over on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A watch featuring a looter running off with a TV while a riot policeman stands and watches is one of a series of one-off, customised time pieces commissioned by Dezeen from Dominic Wilcox. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: over 30 design companies will present their work at Tramshed, 32 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3LX from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architect John Pawson has installed the largest lens ever made by crystal brand Swarovski in the southwest tower of St Paul’s Cathedral for the London Design Festival, which starts on Saturday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The six shortlisted entries in the RIBA competition to design new electricity pylons for the UK have been announced. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British industrial design brand Dyson have unveiled their latest product: a fan heater. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Shed have completed the new flagship store for fashion brand Spencer Hart, located in a former bank in Mayfair, London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Copper louvres shade the glazed upper storeys of a police station in France that emerges from behind a cobbled stone wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

When you stand inside one of these riverside pavilions in Turku, Finland, you can hear what’s going on beneath the water’s surface. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ligne Roset Westend hosts an exhibition of their latest collection called Telling Tales to coincide with the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors enter a theatre in Huelva, Spain, below a bulky concrete cafe that rests upon backlit glass walls of purple and blue. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article