Architecture
Architecture
Island of Memory by Britton Chambers
Britton Chambers, an architecture student at the University of Minnesota, has designed a memorial centre to commemorate the suffering of slaves in 18th and 19th century America. More
Britton Chambers, an architecture student at the University of Minnesota, has designed a memorial centre to commemorate the suffering of slaves in 18th and 19th century America. More
Acceleration is a digital prototype for a sofa by Copenhagen-based designer Phillip Grass. More
I.V. Plant Pot by UK designers Vitamin has gone into production. More
Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these photographs of the Kait workshop at Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan by Junya Ishigami Architects. More
Architectural photographer Duccio Malagamba has relaunched his website with new images including these of CaixaForum Madrid by architects Herzog & de Meuron. More
Architect Hani Rashid of Asymptote presents an exhibition called Atmospherics at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York next month. More
Enchord is a two-tier work table by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of Industrial Facility for Herman Miller's Lifework collection. More
Designer Daniela Bianka has completed a renovation of the reception area and exhibition space at the French National Space Agency (CNES) in Paris. More
Architects Julien de Smedt and CEBRA architects in collaboration with Louis Paillard and SeArch have won a competition to build a housing complex at the Aarhus docklands development in Denmark. More
The Mornington nursing home in Victoria, Australia, designed by Lyons Architects, is clad with bricks embossed to resemble timber. More
Dezeen has teamed up with lifestyle brand Charles & Marie to give away six Trophy Hangers by designer Phil Cuttance. More
Designer Yves Béhar has unveiled the successor to the XO laptop for the One Laptop Per Child project - a folding tablet design called XOXO. More
Construction is underway on prototype houses by architects Alejandro Aravena, Massimiliano Fuksas, MVRDV, I-Beam Design, The Mad Housers and Kengo Kuma in the grounds of the Milan Triennale as part of the exhibition Casa Per Tutti (Housing For All), which opens this week. More
Milan 08: Marcel Wanders launched his new Chubby armchair for Italian company Slide in Milan last month. More
Milan 08: shown at That’s Design! in Zona Tortona last month, What Can You Bring to the Table is a collection of five chairs where each component was designed in isolation without any knowledge of what the other parts would be like. More
Hackenbroich Architecten have completed the interior of a hairdressers shop in Cologne, Germany. More
Nano Vent-skin is a conceptual project by young designer Agustin Otegu, featuring miniscule bio-turbines that could clad buildings to generate energy and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. More
Milan 08: at the furniture fair last month MDF Italia presented Vita interactive by Massimo Mariani, an infinitely variable, computer-generated storage system that can be customised to each client's requirements. More
Dutch designer Tjep. has completed a restaurant for grown-ups that is also fun for children (or maybe the other way round). More
Dezeen promotion: video interviews with industrial designer Konstantin Grcic (above) and Dutch design duo Studio Job are the latest in our highlighted series of podcast interviews with leading designers by Gestalten. More