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W Hotels Designers of the Future Award 2013 winners announced
News: designers Seung-Yong Song, Jon Stam and Bethan Laura Wood have been announced as the winners of this year's W Hotels Designers of the Future Award. More
News: designers Seung-Yong Song, Jon Stam and Bethan Laura Wood have been announced as the winners of this year's W Hotels Designers of the Future Award. More
News: Ambra Medda, the director and co-founder of Design Miami/Basel, has announced the launch of L'ArcoBaleno, a website offering unique and limited edition pieces for sale alongside reports from the design world. More
Milan 2013: a compact furniture production line designed by Design Academy Eindhoven alumni Thomas Vailly, Itay Ohaly and Christian Fiebig has won this year's Frame Moooi Award. More
News: Italian architect Paolo Soleri, whose vision of an environmentally conscious form of architecture led to the founding of an experimental eco-town in Arizona, has died at the age of 93. More
News: a folding wheel (above) and the UK Government's redesigned website are among the seven category winners of the Designs of the Year Awards announced today by London's Design Museum. More
News: UNStudio will in June relaunch as an "open-source architecture studio" inspired by technology start-ups, the Dutch firm announced today. More
News: the rooftop of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille is to open to the public this summer as a contemporary art space masterminded by French designer Ora-Ïto. More
News: construction is underway on an outdoor bathing lake in Riehen, Switzerland, by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. More
News: architects and critics have called for the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand to be restored to its original gothic appearance after rejecting two contemporary proposals as "bizarre" and "architecturally illiterate". More
News: the estimated cost of Apple's Foster + Partners-designed campus in Cupertino, California, has reportedly spiralled from $3 billion to nearly $5 billion over the last two years. More
News: the highly anticipated Apple television is set to launch later this year and will be operated with a digital "iRing" worn on the finger, according to an industry insider. More
News: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi is backing a campaign calling for his 1991 accolade to be retrospectively shared with his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown. More
News: British graphic design studio IDO has redesigned the logo and website for the estate of Gerry Anderson, the creator of classic puppet television series Thunderbirds and Stingray (+ movie). More
News: Shepard Fairey, the American graphic designer who created the iconic HOPE image for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has designed a badge for astronauts on the International Space Station (+ movie). More
News: Facebook asked Frank Gehry to "tone down" his original plans for its new Silicon Valley campus, according to a partner at the architect's firm. More
News: architects including Zaha Hadid, Farshid Moussavi and Hani Rashid have signed a petition calling for Denise Scott Brown (above) to be recognised as a Pritzker Prize laureate alongside her husband, Robert Venturi, who was awarded the prestigious prize in 1991. More
News: Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have won a competition for the Moscow Polytechnic Museum and Educational Centre with a design consisting of four copper-clad elements that appear to have been "cut by the wind". More
News: Gamers will be able to design their own cases for the forthcoming Yves Behar-designed OUYA console and print them out with a MakerBot 3D printer. More
News: architects and designers including Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Ross Lovegrove, and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have sent an open letter to Milan's mayor calling for the reinstatement of architect and editor Stefano Boeri (above), who was sacked last week as the city's councillor for design, fashion and culture. More
News: 3D printing expert Janne Kyttanen has produced prototype printed pasta, breakfast cereal and burgers to demonstrate how advances in 3D printing could transform the way we eat (+ interview + slideshow). More