Folklore by Danielle and Rob Reid
Wall panels and shelves in this north London design shop are made from reclaimed floorboards and scaffolding planks. More
Wall panels and shelves in this north London design shop are made from reclaimed floorboards and scaffolding planks. More
Dezeen Wire: new Royal College of Art dean of architecture Alex de Rijke will steer students away from proposing unrealisable "paper architecture" and instead focus on how their ideas could be built (+ movie). More
Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. More
A kilometre-long cable car designed by British architects Wilkinson Eyre has opened today over the River Thames in London. More
Hoxton architects Edgley Design have tucked a rubber-clad residence and aluminium artist's studio behind a row of semi-detached houses in Hackney. More
Here are the first images of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that New York architect Steven Holl is designing for St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. More
Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). More
Here are some photographs of the Stanton Williams-designed Hackney Marshes Centre, which provides facilities for London's amateur football leagues and won an RIBA award last week. More
Movie: the final tour we filmed at this year's Royal College of Art graduate show features projects from the Architecture course including a high-rise hotel growing tropical fruit and an insect-powered office tower. More
Dezeen Wire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey shows that the workload index for UK architects has seen a significant increase compared to this time last year. More
When Royal College of Art graduate Hotzu River Cheng found out that cooking fumes were a bigger cause of lung cancer than cigarettes among Chinese women, he set out to design a better extractor fan to protect them. More
Movie: the third tour we filmed at the Royal College of Art graduate show features work from the Innovation Design Engineering course, including a candyfloss machine for recycling plastic and a bicycle for recycling copper from electrical wires. More
Movie: in the second of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Interactions course Tony Dunne talks about selected projects including mice with the DNA of Elvis and a prototype for a biological factory. More
Royal College of Art graduate Imme van der Haak has printed photos of people onto silk shrouds so that the wearer's image is overlaid with someone else's face and body (+ movie). More
Graphic patterns and two-way mirrored glass create optical illusions on these furniture pieces by Royal College of Art graduate Kim Thome. More
Royal College of Art graduate Hal Watts has come up with a bicycle-powered electronic waste recycler that could save lives in developing countries (+ movie). More
Dezeen Wire: architect Zaha Hadid said governments should not use austerity as an excuse for building cheap housing, hospitals and public buildings in an interview at the Cannes International Festival of Advertising this week - The Guardian
Hadid was made a dame for her services to architecture last week when the Queen’s 2012 Birthday Honours list was announced.
News: the V&A museum in London is to open a new permanent gallery to display over 200 pieces from its collection of furniture spanning 600 years. More
Movie: in the first of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Products course Tord Boontje talks about selected projects including food containers made of radioactive soil and suits for living in someone else's skin. More
Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). More