Dezeenmail #30

Hello Dezeenmail subscribers! It’s been a while… we’ve been consumed with Milan, hence the strong Milan flavour this month.

If you missed Milan, Marcus is giving a trends presentation at Ligne Roset City in London on 21 May – details here.

Also some housekeeping: we are finally developing a comments policy, we’ve launched a new feed service called Dezeenwire and Marcus is finally on Twitter.

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“Nobody in slums needs these architects”

Architects Filipe Balestra and Sara Göransson have developed an incremental housing strategy to improve slums. Matt feels slum-dwellers can look after themselves but most other readers disagree. Read the story and comments »

“Jag tro att det e un-scandinavian”

Not sure what language MC is writing in, but we get the gist. Tham & Videgård Hansson’s Stockholm interior is indeed very un-Scandinavian. Read the story and comments »

“Shame I will never be able to see it”

Male readers are frustrated they can’t visit Glowacka Rennie’s female toilets at the Victoria & Albert Museum, which feature geometric ceiling patterns only visible in the wash-basin mirror. Read the story and comments »

Dezeen's Milan favourites

We were in Milan last month for the furniture fair – see all our Milan 09 stories in our special category and a selection of some of our favourites here.

"Someone really loves booleans"

Some readers see Booleans, some see Terminator, others see Gordon Matta-Clark… there’s something for everyone in Rojkind Arquitectos’ new lab building for Nestlé. Read the story and comments »

“Congratulations Maestro”

At last our readers agree on something! Universal delight that Peter Zumthor has won the Pritzker Prize – see our announcement here and see a selection of his key projects here.

“I wish the swine flu upon you”

Our story about IKEA’s PS Collection has turned into a debate about our comments policy… Read the story and comments »

“I’m quite sure that is my moped”

Geez, we can’t even promote our own stickers without getting flak from readers… Read the story and comments »

“Should have baked ginormous muffins”

Fling is back! Where have you been Fling?! This is a recycled paper waste bin by Riccardo Nannini, Domenico Orefice and Emanuele Pizzolorusso, by the way. Read the story and comments »

“I hope they use some non-toxic resin”

Jón Björnsson’s vases are made of volcanic sand bound with resin. Cue discussion about resin. Read the story and comments »

“Can’t put my drink on it”

At least a-haus makes his (or her) point about Frank Gehry’s new bench in a polite way… some of the others help explain why we’ve introduced a comments policy (and you should have read some of the ones we didn’t publish…) Read the story and comments »

“This is frickin’ bangin’”

LPAL sums up what many readers feel about A House by FKL Architects – one of our most commented stories from April. Read the story and comments »

“Please put a muzzle on Zuy”

Konstantin Grcic’s Monza chair generates tons of comments plus a plea for our most prolific commenter to desist. Read the story and comments »

“A terrible thing to do”

Oh dear, readers don’t like Herzog & de Meuron’s planned extension to Tate Modern… read the story and comments plus links to all our stories about Herzog & de Meuron. Read the story and comments »

Bye for now

Be nice...

Love from Marcus, Rupinder and Rose, and this month's intern Brad.

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Competition winners

Congratulations ot the winners of our Green Design, DBOOK, Airside and Yes is More competitions.

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Ole Peder Hagen in Norway, Maggie Lum in Australia, Silvia Sandor in the Netherlands, and Marco Zerbi and Annamaria Perruccio in Italy all won copies of Yes is More by BIG.

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