Dezeen is five: most memorable parties
Continuing our fifth birthday celebrations this week, here is the Dezeen team's list of the five best parties we've hosted since we launched in 2006:
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House in Hiyoshi by Camp Design Inc.
Glass screens slide back and forth across a timber grid that divides this apartment in Japan. More
More designers and brands at The Temporium
We're finalising plans for our Christmas shop, The Temporium, with many more designers and brands signed up - including Swedish outfit Bookman, who are supplying special red and white versions of their cult Bookman cycle lights (above) to decorate the Christmas tree.
We also have Japanese snacks, knotted collars, limited-edition prints, paper eyelashes, bird cushions and much more... More
$180 billion spent on royalty fees annually - Washington Post
Dezeen Wire: the U.N. World Intellectual Property Agency has reported a rise in the amount paid as royalties and licensing fees from $2.8 billion to $180 billion in the last 40 years, representing a 60-fold increase – The Washington PostThe report shows that high income countries such as France, Germany, Japan, Britain and the United States continue to lead the way in research and development but that China's share in the global market has risen from 2.2 percent in 1993 to 12.8 per cent in 2009.
Last week we reported on measures being taken by the UK government to improve intellectual property laws, designer James Dyson also raised the issue when he accused a Chinese manufacturer of copying one of his brand's vacuum designs and Elle Decoration editor Michelle Ogundehin has criticised companies who reproduce classic products.
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"Britain could become enormous Los Angeles-style ghetto" - Richard Rogers
Dezeen Wire: British architect Richard Rogers has warned that plans by the UK government to simplify planning regulations could lead to unmoderated urban sprawl, "with rust belts and towns joining each other" – Daily MailHe added: "If the framework is not improved it will lead to the breakdown and fragmentation of cities and neighbourhoods as well as the erosion of the countryside." Rogers' concerns about the government's new National Planning Policy Framework are shared by environmental campaigners who say they don't offer a clear enough definition of sustainable development.
Richard Rogers was involved in a planning battle in 2009 over his proposed redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks in London – see reports on Dezeen Wire
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Wayne Rooney hires architects to design garden shed
Dezeen Wire: England footballer Wayne Rooney has hired architects Pulmann Associates to design a shed in the garden of his £4 million home – The Sun 
Hansha Reflection House by Studio SKLIM
A bevelled cantilever contains the living room of this house in Nagoya, Japan, by architects Studio SKLIM. More
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"The London River Park: place for the people or a private playground?"- The Observer
Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Rowan Moore claims that corporate facilities integrated into the plans for the controversial London River Park would turn it into a "gigantic hospitality suite with a fairly nice walkway threaded through it" – The ObserverMoore describes architects Gensler's proposal as "the latest example of a widespread type of the 21st century, the pseudo-public space." He criticises the design for the walkway and rentable pods, describing them as "offensively indifferent" to their historical surroundings and says the project organisers should learn from New York's High Line park in order to turn a good idea into a popular public space.
See our previous story on the 35-metre model of the London River Park.
Chair 107 by Robert Stadler for Thonet
Austrian designer Robert Stadler has created a new bistro chair for Thonet, a brand famed for their bentwood chairs synonymous with cafe culture that have hardly changed in a hundred years. More
House 712 by H Arquitectes
The perforated brick walls of this triangular house in Barcelona overlap at the corners. More