slim&strong by Delphine Frey
Design graduate Delphine Frey produced this carbon-fibre lamp as part of her Mas Luxe diploma at ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne) in Switzerland. More
Design graduate Delphine Frey produced this carbon-fibre lamp as part of her Mas Luxe diploma at ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne) in Switzerland. More
Slovakian architects Vallo Sadovsky have created a flexible pavilion for a public square in Bratislava. More
German architects Archimedialab have completed a visitor centre and administration building beside at incineration plant in Stuttgart. More
Car brand BMW will unveil its Vision EfficientDynamics concept car at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. More
Another Index Award winner: PIG 05049 by Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma, a book documenting the products made from a pig, won the Play category of the awards, which were announced yesterday. More
Chulha, a cooking stove intended for use in the developing world by Philips Design, is among the winners of the Index Awards 2009, which were announced in Copenhagen last night. More
Dezeenwire: the winners of Index Awards, the biannual global design prize that rewards designs that improve life, were announced in Copenhagen last night. Winners in the five categories (body, home, work, play and community) each earn €100,000. Winners include Chulha, a cooking stove for the developing world by Philips Design, and PIG 05049 by Christien Meindertsma - a book that documents all the uses of a pig. www.indexaward.dk
Archivi Architects & Associates of Osaka have completed a private house in Wakaura bay, near Wakayama city in Japan. More
French car brand Citroën will launch its new DS3 model at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. More
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in the desert near Abu Dhabi. More
London Design Festival 09: Korean designers Maezm will show work including Table-Dish-Cover, a silicon tablecloth with integrated dishes, at Designersblock in London next month. More
London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has completed a wall that incorporates 1,000 nest boxes for birds and bats in Cardiff Bay, UK. More
London Design Festival 09: Waggott Tripp & Graham, who created an installation where the viewer becomes the exhibit, are one of 10 designers to have won our Tent Digital competition for free exhibition space at Tent Digital during London Digital Week in September. More
Amsterdam architects O+A have completed an extension to a villa near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. More
This month's top ten features Dezeen's most popular stories about retail projects. In first place is Shop in a church by Merkx + Girod Architecten. More
American designer Karl Zahn has designed a flat-pack pendant lamp for American brand Artecnica. More
Copenhagen architect Morten Emil Engel has won a competition to design stools that will furnish an exhibition building by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow at the Krabbesholm Højskole in Skive, Denmark. More
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Graphic artist Chris Labrooy has designed a series of type faces based on the work of famous architects and designers. More
Photographs of work by architect Peter Zumthor, taken by London photographer Hélène Binet, will be on show at the Gabrielle Ammann Gallery in Cologne next week. More