Design
Design
Portable "parklet" by WMB Studio adds greenery to London's streets
Design collective WMB Studio has created a miniature modular park that monitors air quality and offers plant-covered seating for passersby (+ slideshow). More
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Architecture
Architecture
Today we like: white concrete
White concrete is popular with architects thanks to its pure, uniform appearance, offering a less brutal alternative to board-marked and raw concrete. It is created by combining materials with lower iron, chromium and manganese levels.
Recent examples of projects with white concrete include Daniel Libeskind's proposal for an art museum in Lithuania, a tiny chapel in rural Austria and three additions to a pair of 18th century French mansions (pictured). See more architecture using white concrete »
Architecture
Architecture
DX Arquitectos extends yoga teacher's house with a blackened timber studio on top
Chilean studio DX Arquitectos has added a timber-framed roof extension to the home of a yoga teacher in Santiago, providing a studio where she can teach classes (+ slideshow). More
News
News
This week, London and Copenhagen unveiled ambitious plans for pedestrian and cycle bridges
This week on Dezeen: it was a bumper week for bridges, with Steven Holl's elevated design to span Copenhagen harbour revealed ahead of two proposals for pedestrian and cycle crossings in London. More
Design
Design
Visser & Meijwaard designs zip-up coffins that you would "want to be seen dead in"
Dutch Design Week 2015: Arnhem studio Visser & Meijwaard has designed a range of colourful zip-up coffins to help make death less depressing. More
Architecture
Architecture
KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten wins competition to design Shenzhen Art Museum and Library
German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten's glass-covered design for the Shenzhen Art Museum and Library complex in China beat proposals from a number of star architects. More
Design
Design
Constance Guisset's D-Vine tabletop machine speeds up wine tasting
French designer Constance Guisset has created a machine that automatically aerates and adjusts the temperature of individual glasses of wine. More
US job of the week: architect/designer at Abramson Teiger
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect/designer at Abramson Teiger in California, whose Kelly Residence in Culver City is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Furniture
Furniture
Marc Thorpe's latest chair for Moroso is based on the shapes of corn husks
Movie: American designer Marc Thorpe reveals which vegetable influenced his Husk chair for Moroso in our next exclusive movie for the Italian furniture brand. More
Design
Design
Design company raises prices on Black Friday in support of craftspeople
Business news: San Francisco studio Wood Thumb is opposing Black Friday's discounting frenzy by upping the price of its products, adding a "Maker's Bonus" for its craftspeople. More
Furniture
Furniture
Frits Henningsen's Signature Chair rereleased by Carl Hansen & Søn
The last chair designed by late Danish cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen has been put back into production by furniture company Carl Hansen & Søn. More
Architecture
Architecture
Mu Xin Art Museum by OLI Architecture sits over a lake in eastern China
This "floating" art and literary museum by American studio OLI Architecture is housed in a grouping of textured concrete blocks, which are elevated over a lake in China's Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
NAPUR Architect creates circuitboard pattern on facade of Super Computer Centre
The facade of this computer research centre at Hungary's University of Debrecen has been designed to reflect its function, with a grooved pattern inspired by a circuitboard (+ slideshow). More
Job of the week: interior architect at Jump Studios
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an interior architect at Jump Studios, which recently renovated a 19th-century battery factory in Madrid to create the sixth Google campus (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Graphics
Graphics
Tord Boontje's festive stamps feature "small stories" of animals and people
Reindeer, peacocks and foxes adorn these Christmas stamps designed by Studio Tord Boontje for Dutch national delivery company PostNL. More
Hotels
Hotels
Timber cabins provide guest suites for Patagonia's remote Awasi Hotel
Chilean architect Felipe Assadi has built a series of wooden hotel cabins on a Chilean hillside, offering guests the chance to glimpse wild llamas, pumas and rheas in their natural habitat (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Bouroullec brothers design suspended screens for Tel Aviv exhibition
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of 17 hanging screens created by French design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. More
Architecture
Architecture
Haverstock uses stone-filled cages to disguise police shooting range in disused quarry
Stone-filled gabions provide the walls of this police training centre by architecture firm Haverstock, helping it camouflage with the craggy walls of a former quarry in Bristol, England (+ slideshow). More
Restaurants/bars
Restaurants/bars
Four O Nine transforms greenhouse into plant-lined coffee shop
Shanghai office Four O Nine has converted a glass building in Beijing into a cafe, adding walls of plants to purify polluted air. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Foster and Aravena are moving architecture out of the shallows and into deeper water"
Opinion: while many architects are designing slippery "architexture", Norman Foster and Alejandro Aravena are unlikely allies in the pursuit of real architecture, says Will Wiles. More