Dezeen Mail #174
This week's issue of Dezeen Mail leads with Zaha Hadid's family of superyachts and includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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"Singapore has balanced the need for density with providing public space"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Colin Seah of Ministry of Design shows us examples of how Singapore is responding to the challenge of housing a growing population without sacrificing its green spaces in our second movie from the city. More
Espace St-Denis by Anne Sophie Goneau
Exposed brick walls and a large bookshelf are on show through the glazed facade of this ground-floor apartment in Montreal by Canadian designer Anne Sophie Goneau (+ slideshow). More
Competition: five copies of Dutch Design Yearbook 2013 to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers nai010 to give readers the chance to win a copy of a book full of innovative projects designed in the Netherlands over the past year. More
Pracownia by Karina Wiciak
Giant paintbrushes hold up the splattered ceiling of this conceptual restaurant by Polish designer Karina Wiciak (+ slideshow). More
Tel Aviv Townhouse by Pitsou Kedem
A black steel staircase links the six storeys of this townhouse in Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More
Lulu lamp by Jean-Sébastien Lagrange
Product news: industrial designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange has created this lamp from interlocking sections of Tyvek. More
LEAPrus 3912 by LEAPfactory
A hotel comprising four prefabricated fibreglass tubes has opened near the top of Europe's highest peak (+ slideshow). More
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital at MAD
An exhibition exploring the latest digital design and manufacturing processes opens today at New York's Museum of Arts and Design. More
Dezeen Music Project: Turpin by Tomjuno
We don't feature many banjo-based tracks on Dezeen Music Project, let alone those with a 7/8 time signature. But this funky instrumental by Singapore-based producer Tomjuno has had us tapping our feet in the office all afternoon.
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Foster's $5bn Apple Campus unanimously approved by Cupertino City Council
News: here are images of Foster + Partners' latest design for the new $5bn Apple Campus 2, which was unanimously approved by Cupertino City Council last night (+ slideshow) More
"World's first" drone delivery service launches in Australia
News: a Sydney company has launched a book delivery service that employs flying robots instead of postmen, and declared that "commercial drones are going to become as ubiquitous as aeroplanes" (+ movie). More
Prototype Liquid Glacial Table by Zaha Hadid at David Gill Galleries
An updated version of Zaha Hadid's Liquid Glacial Table is currently on show at David Gill Galleries in London. More
Mortehoe House by McLean Quinlan Architects
Walls of weathered stone and timber surround this gabled family retreat by British studio McLean Quinlan Architects on the Devon coastline in south-west England (+ slideshow). More
Heatherwick to design Beijing Subway stations and bid for work on London Underground
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has been commissioned to design a string of metro stations for Beijing and is also bidding to develop two new stations on the London Underground. More
"We wanted to wake people's curiosity about whisky"
Movie: Swedish designers Front have created a whisky-serving set for whisky brand Ballantine's 12 that can be stacked into a balancing tower. In this Dezeen movie, Front's Sofia Lagerkvist explains how the project was informed by a visit to the Ballantine's production facilities in Scotland. More
CMYK House by MCKNHM Architects
A woodland landscape scene is hidden within a pattern of coloured polka dots on the exterior of this house extension in Moers, Germany, by Düsseldorf studio MCKNHM Architects (+ slideshow). More
Award-winning packaging ditched in favour of jars
News: the inventor of an anti-diarrhoea pack for the developing world has replaced its innovative, award-winning packaging design with a simple screw-top jar. More
Competition: five Superkilen books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Arvinius + Orfeus to give away five copies of a book about Danish studio BIG's patterned park in Copenhagen. More
Landscape daybed by Outofstock
Product news: this daybed by design studio Outofstock is shaped to reference landscape elements (+ slideshow). More