BIG wins competition to design Museum of the Human Body in Montpellier
News: Danish architecture firm BIG has won a competition to design a new Museum of the Human Body in Montpellier, France. More
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Honey bees can be trained to detect cancer "in ten minutes" says designer
Dutch Design Week 2013: Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees ( + slideshow). More
Renzo Piano completes extension to Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum
Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the extension to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, doubling the gallery space originally designed by American architect Louis Kahn (+ slideshow). More
Olafur Eliasson's tears used to make human cheese - redirect
Olafur Eliasson's tears used to make human cheese
Bacteria from personalities including artist Olafur Eliasson, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and chef Michael Pollan have been used to make human cheese as part of an exhibition about synthetic biology in Dublin. More
Sou Fujimoto designs masterplan featuring water cascading down towers of arches
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has released images of a conceptual masterplan for an anonymous Middle Eastern city comprising tapering towers of stacked arches cooled by waterfalls (+ slideshow). More
Tiny 3D-printed selfies can be ordered from your living room
News: Microsoft Kinect users can now scan their bodies with the motion capture device and order a 3D-printed miniature model of themselves without leaving the house. More
Competition: three FLAXX chairs to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Intier Automotive Eybl to give readers the chance to win one of three chairs moulded from flax. More
Häagen-Dazs Cloud ice cream by Front
Swedish design collective Front has designed a cloud-shaped ice cream in collaboration with dessert company Häagen-Dazs. More
Interactive music video for Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone
Dezeen Music Project: viewers of the first official video for American musician Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone can change channels that mimic TV formats to watch people lip-syncing to the 1965 track. More
Angular rusted-steel facade wrapped round an old house in a rural town by Möhn + Bouman
This office building in the Netherlands was designed for property developers called Orangerock, so architects Möhn + Bouman gave it a faceted orange facade made from sheets of pre-rusted steel (+ slideshow). More
People "will start becoming technology" says human cyborg
Technology will increasingly be integrated into the body "to extend our abilities, our knowledge and our perceptions of reality", according to Neil Harbisson, the first officially recognised human cyborg (+ interview). More
Run Colors trainer store by Mode:lina Architekci
A rainbow of coloured cords streaks across this trainer shop in Poznań, Poland, by designers Mode:lina Architekci (+ slideshow). More