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Louis Vuitton & Kusama concept store at Selfridges
Competition: five copies of Why We Build by Rowan Moore to give away
Bloom lamps by Kristine Five Melvær
UK should “learn from the Netherlands” and build floating housing, says Alex de Rijke
Wall House by Anupama Kundoo at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Paralympic design: Nike Spike Pad for Oscar Pistorius
Movie: Marc Newson on designing nearly everything
Dutch Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012

Louis Vuitton & Kusama concept store at Selfridges

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Fashion brand Louis Vuitton has collaborated with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama to create a collection of dotty garments featuring Kusama’s obsessional polka dot patterns for a concept store at Selfridges department store in London. (more…)

Competition: five copies of Why We Build by Rowan Moore to give away

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:30 AM PDT

Competition: architecture critic Rowan Moore‘s new book Why We Build is released today, and we are publishing an extract as well as giving readers the chance to win one of five copies. (more…)

Bloom lamps by Kristine Five Melvær

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:32 AM PDT

Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melvær has designed a series of lamps that look like buds about to burst into bloom. (more…)

UK should “learn from the Netherlands” and build floating housing, says Alex de Rijke

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Dezeen Wire: “we’re advocating other UK architects to design on water,” architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British Pavilion. (more…)

Wall House by Anupama Kundoo at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:00 PM PDT

Indian architect Anupama Kundoo brought a team of Indian craftsman to Italy to construct a replica of a house inside the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…)

Paralympic design: Nike Spike Pad for Oscar Pistorius

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:05 PM PDT

The London 2012 Paralympics begin tonight and over the coming days we’ll be featuring a selection of cutting-edge sportswear designed for the competing athletes, starting with the Nike Spike Pad as worn by “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius. (more…)

Movie: Marc Newson on designing nearly everything

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT

Industrial designer Marc Newson has famously tried his hand at designing pretty much everything. In the second of five movies Dezeen filmed to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, Newson talks us though a range of his projects that takes in mobile phones, knives, beds, clothes, packaging and a surf board so slick it was sold as a sculpture. (more…)