![Dutch architects 3D print house](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/12/Landscape-House-by-Universe-Architecture-1.jpg)
Dezeen's review of the year: January 2013
To finish the year we're rounding up the biggest news stories and most popular projects from each month, starting with January. We kicked off 2013 with a focus on 3D printing, as the race began to 3D-print a house (pictured).
![Foster + Partners to 3D print buildings on the moon](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_3D-printed-buildings-on-moon-by-Foster-and-Partners_2sq.jpg)
3D printing
Nokia became the first mass manufacturer to release open-source 3D-print files and Foster + Partners announced proposals to take 3D printing to the moon.
![Cheap 3D printers fuel home-printed sex toy](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_Cheap-3D-printers-fuel-home-printed-sex-toy-phenomenon_7.jpg)
A desktop recycling plant was designed so users could turn plastic objects into 3D-printing filament to fuel their printing appetites and the technology sparked a boom for home-printed sex toys.
![Zaha Hadid building pirated in China](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/Zaha-Hadid-Wangjing-Soho.jpg)
Copying
Copying was also in the news, as Zaha Hadid's Wanjing Soho complex in Beijing was imitated elsewhere in China and American furniture brand Emeco settled a legal dispute over a ripped-off version of its classic Navy Chair.
![Glass Farm by MVRDV](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_Glass-Farm-by-MVRDV_7sq.jpg)
Most popular
Of all our stories in January, a glass office building disguised as a barn by MVRDV was the most popular.
![Forget Me Knot by Sruli Recht](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_Forget-Me-Knot-by-Sruli-Recht_1.jpg)
This was followed by Sruli Recht's decision to have a slice of skin removed from his belly, which he used to make a ring.
![Garden and House by Ryue Nishizawa](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_Garden-and-House-by-Ryue-Nishizawa_2sq1.jpg)
A five-storey Tokyo townhouse fronted by a stack of gardens came in third.
![Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_Optical-Glass-House-by-Hiroshi-Nakamura_17sqd.jpg)
Next was another house in Japan, this time with a shimmering glass-brick facade that provides glimpses of a tree-filled courtyard behind.
![X House by Cadaval & Solà-Morales](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_X-House-by-Cadaval-Sola-Morales_sp_10sq.jpg)
Rounding off the top five was the aptly named X House, with a cross-shaped plan that projects over the edge of a hillside near Barcelona.
![Dezeen launches World Design Guide](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/World-Design-Guide-logo-all-sq.jpg)
Dezeen's month
At the beginning of the year Dezeen launched World Design Guide, an online guide to the key architecture and design events around the world. Dezeen was also featured in a list of the 50 top websites you can't live without by UK newspaper The Times.
![Ready Made Curtain by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_Ready-Made-Curtain-by-Ronan-and-Erwan-Bouroullec_sq_3.jpg)
We began our year's travelling in Germany, and our reports from the imm Cologne furniture and product fair included a DIY kit for making curtains by the Bouroullec brothers. Our next stop was Maison & Objet outside Paris, where Benjamin Hubert launched a range of terracotta pots with rubber lids and a ceramic lamp.
![Pots by Benjamin Hubert for Menu](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/01/dezeen_Pots-by-Benjamin-Hubert_3.jpg)
See all our stories from January 2013 »