Dezeen Mail #182
The latest issue of our weekly newsletter leads with Herzog & de Meuron's east London skyscraper proposal and also includes the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Concrete-clad sports hall by Idis Turato features both faceted and bumpy facades
Faceted concrete blocks protrude from one side of this sports hall in Croatia, while its bumpy southern and western walls were made by casting concrete panels over a bed of stones (+ slideshow). More
Pavilion made of 3D-printed salt by Emerging Objects
American studio Emerging Objects 3D-printed this pavilion using salt harvested from San Francisco Bay (+ slideshow). More
House extension with stepping stones leading inside by Haberstroh Schneider Architekten
Swiss firm Haberstroh Schneider Architekten has extended a house in Basel by adding a chain of three rooms, creating a new semi-enclosed courtyard that is filled with stepping stones (+ slideshow). More
Chameleon Cabin made from paper changes colour when viewed from either side
This corrugated paper cabin designed by architect Mattias Lind is printed to resemble black marble on one side of the folds and white marble on the other so it looks different from either side (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind is the twelfth addition to our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Pictured here is the New York architect's extension to the Dresden Museum of Military History, which features a pointed steel and glass shard through the skin of the historic museum, but he also recently unveiled plans to build an angular apartment block in Berlin.
Blackened timber house extension hidden in the forest by Marchi Architectes
Paris studio Marchi Architectes layered up timber slats of different thicknesses and proportions to give an irregular texture to the walls of this sunken house extension in Normandy, France (+ slideshow). More
Fashion collection features solar panels for charging a mobile phone
Wearable Futures: flaps in this range of clothing by Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen open up to reveal solar panels, enabling the wearer to become a walking mobile phone charger (+ movie). More
Dezeen Music Project: Jewels by Zequals
We used this electronic track by UK artist Zequals on our first two movies from Miami, the final stop on our Dezeen and MINI World Tour.
It's not exactly Miami Vice, but something about the track's synthy 80s sounds just felt right for cruising around in Miami's December sun.
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Jacques Herzog: The Pérez Art Museum "is a naked structure"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron explains how the Pérez Art Museum Miami was designed so that everything is visible and there is no strict barrier between inside and outside, in our second movie from Miami. More
Self-repairing trainers 3D-printed from biological cells by Shamees Aden
Wearable Futures: London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological material and could repair themselves overnight. More
Art gallery and archive by Lacaton & Vassal mirrors an old shipbuilding workshop
Paris architects Lacaton & Vassal have designed a translucent structure to house an international art collection that is a mirror image of the adjoining former shipbuilding workshop (+ slideshow). More
Competition: three 3XN monographs to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Danish architecture studio 3XN to give away three copies of the firm's new monograph. More
SOM unveils Indonesian skyscraper that will harness wind power
News: American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has revealed designs for a skyscraper in Jakarta that will be over 500 metres high and will harvest wind energy through an opening at its peak. More
Movie shows concrete bunker cut in half by RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon
This movie shows how a redundant Second World War bunker in the Netherlands was turned into a sculptural visitor attraction by slicing it down the middle to reveal its insides. More
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Kengo Kuma
Next up in our alphabet of architects is Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect who has completed two contemporary art centres in France this year - the timber-clad art college and music school in Besançon and the FRAC arts centre in Marseille with a chequered glass facade (pictured).
Office amenities building has dragon-like scales
Curving iridescent structures resembling the scaled bodies of a pair of dragons slump over the top of this new wing created by French studios Agence Jouin Manku and DTACC at an office campus outside Paris (+ slideshow). More
Hotel made of ice contains a Frankenstein-themed room by Pinpin Studio
One of the rooms at this year's Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, was designed by Pinpin Studio to look like the laboratory where Frankenstein's monster was brought into being (+ slideshow). More
MAD's Nanjing masterplan features buildings designed to look like mountains
Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD presents a masterplan for Nanjing, China, where buildings are designed to look like mountains and public spaces overlap with the natural landscape, as part of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. More
Ten designer holiday gifts from Luminaire
Dezeen promotion: design brand Luminaire has selected products from its online store that would make ideal Christmas gifts for design enthusiasts. More