This week on Dezeen
The most popular stories on Dezeen this week include hidden furniture, a home delivered by helicopter and pyramid-shaped beach huts. More
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Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes by Elizabeth de Portzamparc
Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has won a competition to design a museum of Roman history in Nîmes with this building dressed in a pleated glass toga. More
The Hive Apartment by ITN Architects
The facade of this Melbourne house for an architect and a street artist has built-in graffiti. More
"Zaha Hadid says austerity is not an excuse for low-quality housing" - The Guardian
Dezeen Wire: architect Zaha Hadid said governments should not use austerity as an excuse for building cheap housing, hospitals and public buildings in an interview at the Cannes International Festival of Advertising this week - The GuardianHadid was made a dame for her services to architecture last week when the Queen’s 2012 Birthday Honours list was announced.
V&A museum to open new permanent furniture gallery
News: the V&A museum in London is to open a new permanent gallery to display over 200 pieces from its collection of furniture spanning 600 years. More
Movie: tour of Design Products at Show RCA 2012 with Tord Boontje
Movie: in the first of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Products course Tord Boontje talks about selected projects including food containers made of radioactive soil and suits for living in someone else's skin. More
Stair Rover by Po-Chih Lai at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). More
Experimentarium Science Centre by CEBRA
Danish architects CEBRA have revealed their proposals for a science and technology centre within a former mineral water bottling plant in Copenhagen. More
Haberdash by Form Us With Love
Menswear is displayed like tools in a shed at this shop in Stockholm by local designers Form Us With Love. More
"Espionage virus sent blueprints to China" - Telegraph
Dezeen Wire: designers and architects using AutoCAD have been targetted by a virus that steals plans for new buildings and products and emails them to China, according to an internet security firm - Telegraph
Casa Grecia by Isay Weinfeld
Slideshow: a mysterious orange door on a suburban São Paulo street leads to a dream house and gardens designed by architect Isay Weinfeld. More
The Zebra Crossing Project by Eduard Čehovin
This pedestrian crossing in Serbia jumbles up the usual arrangement of black and white stripes. More
Lasso Shoes by Gaspard Tiné-Berès at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Gaspard Tiné-Berès has designed slippers made from just one piece of felt and a shoelace (+ movie). More
Dezeen Mail #106
This week's issue of Dezeen Mail includes seats made of hair and pots made of radioactive soil plus Italian designers Formafantasma talking about their work with molten lava, flour and insect excrement.
There’re also new jobs, interviews and music plus details of our next pop-up store.
Punggol Promenade by LOOK Architects
Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). More
Call for entries to Ventura Interieur at Biennale Interieur 2012
Dezeen Wire: design show Biennale Interieur 2012 will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20 to 28 October 2012 and Dutch company Organisation in Design is calling for entries to Ventura Interieur, a city-wide satellite program of shows in collaboration with the biennale. More
Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree at Clerkenwell Design Week
Movie: British designer Ross Lovegrove talks to Dezeen about the tree-like solar-powered street lights he brought to St John's Square for Clerkenwell Design Week. More
Iris by Mimi Zou at Show RCA 2012
This eye-tracking camera by Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou is controlled by blinking and squinting – and even recognises your friends when it looks into their eyes (+ movie). More
Black Lodge by Jägnefält Milton
Tourists to a remote Swedish island will soon be able to abandon the hotel rooms of a luxury resort to sleep inside triangular huts on a deserted beach. More
2012 RIBA Awards winners announced
The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 59 winners of this year’s RIBA Awards, including projects by David Chipperfield, Foster + Partners and OMA. More