Bearina by Ronen Kadushin
Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. More
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Little Joe Woman at The Beach House by MAKE Creative
Plywood shingles create fish scales on the walls of a clothes store at Bondi Beach, Sydney, while spherical lights hang from the ceiling inside fishermen’s nets. More
"PoMo power: the return of postmodernism" - The Observer
Dezeen Wire: ahead of the Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 starting on 24 September, architecture critic Rowan Moore discusses the definition of the movement and its impact on contemporary architecture - The Observer
Bachag by Joongho Choi
Korean designer Joongho Choi designed this chair to be carried over one shoulder like a handbag. More
Garcia D’Orta Secondary School by Bak Gordon
Narrow skylights create bands of light across the red bright ceiling of a sheltered school courtyard in Porto, Portugal. More
Nakahouse by XTEN Architecture
The rooms of a black and white house in California lead out to a series of stepped terraces with a view of the famous Hollywood sign. More
Wine Cellars for Vega-Sicilia by Salas Studio
Two refurbished wine cellars in Spain feature undulating oak ceilings and stainless steel trees. More
Scaffolding Brut by Beta Tank
Berlin designers Beta Tank want to make scaffolding pretty. Designer Eyal Burstein has started out by casting a series of scaffolding joints in glazed porcelain with gold and platinum nuts and bolts. More
Dezeen archive: caves
Dezeen archive: one of our most popular stories this week features a cafe where timber stalactites hang down from an undulating ceiling (top right), so we've compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about caves and grottoes. See all the stories »
Maison Beauvallon by Raphaëlle Segond
Stairs lead past lumpy cork-covered walls to a rooftop swimming pool at a house in the south of France by architect Raphaëlle Segond. More
One year ago...
This time last year London company Hulger launched the Plumen 001 designer lightbulb, which went on to win this year's Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award. More
Prelude 01: a Dialogue at Depot Basel
Nine designers including Florian Hauswirth, Kaspar Hamacher and Max Lipsey furnished a grain-silo-turned-art-space in Basel in a five-day experimental workshop. More
INDEX: Award winners 2011
Here are some images of the five winning projects at this year's INDEX: Awards, including Hövding, an inflatable bicycle helmet (above). More
Roundles by H2 Architecture
Continuing our special feature about swimming pools, here's a timber pool house with limestone walls beside a farmhouse in Surrey, England.
movie by London photographer Logan MacDougall Pope More
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Broadway Malyan to design world’s second tallest tower
Dezeen Wire: British architects Broadway Malyan have been appointed to design a 571 metre skyscraper in Istanbul that they claim will become the second tallest in the world when completed. 
This week on Dezeen
This week Luzinterruptus installed an army of radioactive scarecrows at a German festival and we finished the summer by rounding up our top ten stories about swimming pools. More
Forscherkindergarten Apfelbäumchen by Winkens Architekten
German studio Winkens Architekten have completed a kindergarten in Berlin that has sheltered terraces at each end. More
Brush Hooks by Dominic Wilcox
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Dominic Wilcox claims he meant to leave these paint brushes unwashed so they would harden into coat hooks. More
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"New Park Hill flats in Sheffield unveiled" - BBC News
Dezeen Wire: new pictures reveal the interiors of two show apartments at Park Hill in Sheffield, England, a notorious 1960's housing estate which is being overhauled by developers Urban Splash - BBC News
Instituto de Investigación de Vehículos by ACXT
Tree-like lampposts emerge from a pool of pebbles in front of a metal-clad vehicle research institute in Spain by architects ACXT. More
