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NORDAM: Katrin Olina bends steel pipes into products for reading
Stockholm 2015: Icelandic designer Katrin Olina has created a set of home products made by shaping steel tubes with an old exhaust pipe bending machine. (more…)
NORDAM: Sheffer Chicken Coop is a metal-clad New York home for eight hens
NORDAM: Monica Förster creates outdoor candle holders from synthetic stone slabs
Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer Monica Förster has collaborated with Spanish company Cosentino Group to form a collection of outdoor candle holders and trays using new synthetic stone material Dekton. (more…)
NORDAM: Staircases trace a path across the glazed facade of Intecs office block in Rome
NORDAM: Dezeen Mail #240
An underground cycling network, the UK’s answer to Google’s driverless cars and a striking contemporary arts centre in Portugal (pictured), feature in Dezeen Mail issue 240. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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NORDAM: Imogen Heap’s music gloves could help disabled people “fulfil what’s in their head”
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: the Mi.Mu gesture-control gloves developed by musician Imogen Heap could lead to more accessible ways of making music, say early adopters of the wearable technology (+ movie). (more…)
NORDAM: Old French barn converted into printmaker’s studio by Modal Architecture
NORDAM: Willy Wonka-inspired machine propels popcorn through a curved glass tube
This machine by Dutch designer Jolene Carlier spurts popcorn from the end of a glass tube into a bright yellow bowl when the snack is ready to eat (+ movie). (more…)
NORDAM: Givenchy store in Seoul has an undulating moulded-metal facade
A black box made from panels of moulded steel creates a rippling enclosure for the upper storeys of this Givenchy flagship store in Korea by Italian architects Piuarch (+ slideshow). (more…)