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Jameson House by Foster + Partners

Architects Foster + Partners have attached a 35-storey tower onto the side of two renovated 1920s buildings in Vancouver’s financial district. (more…)

Posted on 27 January 2012 | 12:44 pm

This week on Dezeen

Our most controversial story this week announced writer Alain de Botton’s plans to erect temples for atheists across the UK – read the story and join the debate here. It also emerged that Disney were selling a T-shirt inspired by the 1979 album cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, but don’t rush to order one as they’ve all sold. We also showed a robe made of golden silk harvested from over a million wild spiders and a tower built by flying robots.

Our most popular story featured a blackened timber house surrounded by sheep on a Portuguese island and readers showed a lot of love for the bottle-shaped shutters of a wine shop in Prague, but argued about the sloping zig-zag roof of a market in Majorca.

This week the sad news reached us that Moss design store in New York is to close. More happily, retailers Habitat appointed Polly Dickens as new creative director, William Knight was announced as the new event director of trade show 100% Design, Jeremy Till was appointed as the new head of college at Central Saint Martins and Tord Boontje is to open a shop in London.

John Pawson unveiled his proposals for the new Design Museum in London and Grimshaw were selected to masterplan the home of the Wimbledon tennis championships.

Posted on 27 January 2012 | 10:05 am

Sports Concert Complex by GMP Architekten

Following their Eurovision Song Contest win last summer, Azerbaijan rushed to commission German firm GMP Architekten to design a new stadium that will be complete in time to host this year’s competition. (more…)

Posted on 27 January 2012 | 8:47 am

University of Birmingham Steam Bridge by MJP Architects

This 60 metre-long metal bridge is a route for heating and power pipes, rather than people. (more…)

Posted on 27 January 2012 | 8:28 am

Bukiya by Archiee

The display system at this Japanese souvenir shop in Paris is just key rings hung on screws in the walls. (more…)

Posted on 27 January 2012 | 5:24 am

Wood Old House by Tadashi Yoshimura Architects

Japanese architect Tadashi Yoshimura created a living room lined with mud during the renovation of this 200-year-old family house in Nara. (more…)

Posted on 26 January 2012 | 6:10 pm

Spider-silk cape by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley

A golden cape woven from the silk of over a million wild spiders is on show at the V&A museum in London. (more…)

Posted on 26 January 2012 | 1:09 pm

Stone Angels wallpaper by Young & Battaglia for Mineheart

Transform your bare office into an Italian palazzo with this wallpaper by UK designers Young & Battaglia that lets you pretend to be surrounded by Renaissance-style angels carved in stone. (more…)

Posted on 26 January 2012 | 10:04 am

Tiered Lodge by Naoi Architecture & Design Office

Tokyo architects Naoi have completed a three-tiered woodland summerhouse at Japanese holiday spot Nasu Kogen. (more…)

Posted on 26 January 2012 | 3:44 am

Dezeen Screen: Flight Assembled Architecture – preview

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, flying robots created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea assemble a six metre-high tower from polystyrene bricks. Watch the movie »

Posted on 26 January 2012 | 3:35 am

Woonling Collection by Karoline Fesser

Cologne 2012: this range of seating by product designer Karoline Fesser can be extended by attaching extra components between the segments of the cushions. (more…)

Posted on 26 January 2012 | 3:28 am

An Urban Refuge by Sergi Pons

A room dedicated to ironing is at the centre of a renovated Barcelona apartment with yellow doors and a spinning mirror. (more…)

Posted on 25 January 2012 | 6:02 pm

Sezz Collection by Christophe Pillet for Emeco

Paris 2012: chair brand Emeco presented a new collection of seating by French designer Christophe Pillet at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…)

Posted on 25 January 2012 | 2:30 pm