Graphics
Graphics
Ori Elisar grows typography in a lab using bacteria-filled petri dishes
Jerusalem designer Ori Elisar has used a bacteria-based ink to grow a Hebrew alphabet in the lab for his Living Language type experiment. More
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Residential
Residential
House in Ikoma has a central void that stretches all the way up to its pitched roof
The internal spaces of this house in the Japanese city of Ikoma are arranged around a full-height void that incorporates the staircase (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Hans Abaton styles children's dormitory at Esther Koplowitz Foundation as row of colourful houses
Gabled blocks with brightly coloured facades house bedrooms for children with Cerebral Palsy at this treatment centre in Madrid, which has been updated by local studio Hans Abaton (+ slideshow). More
Lighting
Lighting
Marta Bakowski uses thread to create patterns across Rays lamps
Product designer Marta Bakowski has created a series of lamps wrapped in cord that use single threads to create a graphic representation of rays of light (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Curved lightwell cuts through 3.5-metre-wide Vietnam townhouse by Kientruc O
Curving balconies featuring tropical planting wrap a lightwell in the core of this narrow home in Ho Chi Minh City that is just 3.5 metres wide. More
Architecture
Architecture
Postmodern architecture: Vulcania Centre Européen du Volcanisme by Hans Hollein
Pomo summer: Hans Hollein conceived the Vulcania Centre Européen du Volcanisme amusement park – one of the latest examples of Postmodern architecture in our series – as a journey to the centre of the earth, citing Dante's Inferno among his influences for the subterranean design (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Jimi House by Paul Archer Design features round window inspired by abstract art
This London house extension for a gallery director features a large round window inspired by circular voids that appear in the works of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and abstract painter Ben Nicholson (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
YCL adds colourful furniture accents to monochrome Strasbourg apartment
Lithuanian design and architecture studio YCL has used furniture to add pops of colour to the interiors of an otherwise monochromatic apartment in Strasbourg, France (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Explore images of impressive contemporary museums on our new Pinterest board
Following the controversial selection of two winning entries in a competition to design the Bauhaus Museum Dessau's new home, we've created a Pinterest board filled with some of the most iconic and unusual new institutions in the world, including Renzo Piano's Whitney in New York and Frank Gehry's Biomuseo in Panama.
Architecture
Architecture
GMP Architekten's ballet facility features materials that reference its industrial setting
An overhanging upper storey clad in concrete panels leans out over the glazed entrance of this ballet rehearsal building, added to a former transportation hub in the German city of Düsseldorf (+ slideshow). More
Residential
Residential
Groves Natcheva produce thriller movie to explore alternative ways of presenting architecture
Groves Natcheva Architects have turned to movie making, setting a "dark and psychotically inventive" short film in an apartment they renovated to explore new ways of representing architecture beyond still images (+ movie). More
Architecture
Architecture
Postmodern architecture: the Portland Municipal Services Building, Oregon, by Michael Graves
Pomo summer: Michael Graves' pink and teal Portland Municipal Services Building in Portland, Oregon, is one of Postmodernism's most important structures – and also one of its most divisive. As our season dedicated to the controversial movement nears its end, we revisit the building that kickstarted the debate about preserving Postmodern architecture. More
Graphics
Graphics
Henning M Lederer depicts the human body as a machine for Max Cooper's Anatomic music video
Music: German visual artist Henning M Lederer explores the biological machinery of the human body in an intricate animated video for Max Cooper's track Anatomic. More
Residential
Residential
House on Awaji Island has a timber porch with a house-shaped entrance
The entrance to this white house by Osaka architecture studio IZUE is contained within a hole in the slatted wooden porch that frames a view through to the sea (+ slideshow). More
News
News
This week, Apple launched a stylus and Bauhaus Museum Dessau winners were announced
This week on Dezeen: Apple's latest product launches – including a stylus designed for technical drawing – dominated headlines, while one of the winning entries in a competition to design the Bauhaus Museum Dessau's new home (pictured) quickly became one of this week's most-discussed subjects. More
Design
Design
Menu blends Scandinavian design with traditional crafts to help Nepali women
Maison&Objet 2015: Danish design brand Menu has launched a soft furnishings collection produced in Nepal, to offer Nepali craftswomen an alternative to working in the sex trade (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Flight 93 Memorial opens in Pennsylvania to mark 14th anniversary of 9/11
The Flight 93 crash-site memorial built to commemorate the victims of 9/11 opened to the public today in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, marking the 14th anniversary of the attacks. More
Architecture
Architecture
Ash Sakula Architects designs three mews houses for a rural eco development
Wooden shingles clad the end wall and pitched roofs of this terrace in the English county of Hampshire, designed as a prototype for affordable, sustainable construction in the area (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Visitors must wear rain boots to explore Get Wet installation at Quebec garden festival
Three designers from the Canadian firm Groupe A / Annexe U have erected an orange pavilion within a shallow pool, requiring visitors to don waterproof shoes to explore the structure's interior (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
New York exhibition examines the pre-Memphis work of Ettore Sottsass
A new exhibition at the Friedman Benda gallery in New York displays the early work of designer Ettore Sottsass, best-known for the colourful and radical Memphis design movement of the 1980s (+ slideshow). More