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issue #54 16/07/10

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We've created two summery new categories for you this month: all our stories about pavilions  in one place, and our pick of the best work from this year's graduate shows

As always this issue of Dezeenmail is packed with all the latest stories and comments from Dezeen, plus new Dezeenjobs and competitions on the right.

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Readers had mixed reactions to this skyscraper for Mexico City by Rojkind Arquitectos. Read the story and comment »

Priestmangoode created this conceptual high-speed train in an attempt to persuade the British government to advance the project, but readers are sceptical. "Knock on the Portuguese government's door! They are trying to build one," suggests António Rosa da Silva. Read the story and comments »

You've all fallen head-over-heels for this bar and restaurant in Sydney by Durbach Block Architects, our most-commented story this issue. Read the story and comments »

Royal College of Art graduate Seongyong Lee impressed readers with these stools made of super-light wooden tubes. "Sometimes an idea comes along that is so elegant and obvious that it is impossible to believe that it has not been thought of before," comments Chris Dobson. More from this year's graduate shows in our special categoryRead the story and comments » 

Meanwhile Foster + Partners failed to impress readers even with the world's tallest tensile structure. Read the story and comments »

This watch by MB&F has a case shaped like two jet engines. "You think the watch runs a little fast?" esc quips. Read the story and comments »

Jean Nouvel's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has opened in London and everyone agrees that it's very, very red. Join the colour debate here  and see more photos here.  Read the story and comments »

Once again Dezeen have teamed up with Design Association in Japan to give 10 designers and artists free exhibition space at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition during Tokyo Designers Week 2010 from 29 October to 3 November. Enter the competition »

Plenty of admiration for this medical school by Melbourne architects Lyons. Read the story and comments »

Readers worry Yves Béhar's roadside electric car-chargers will invite pranksters. "We all know there are enough bored people out there that would go around at night and unplug a whole street," Barton Smith points out. Read the story and comments »

This aquarium design for Georgia by Henning Larsen Architects has polarised opinion, but Junihaoni gets distracted: "How is that hammer-head fish floating in the air outside the aquarium?"  Read the story and comments »

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Curate40 Minimart call for entries


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Competition winners

 

Cristina Ferraz in the Netherlands, Kris Conner in the USA, Andre Schelker in Switzerland, Anthony Cooper in the USA and David Simister in the UK won signed Dieter Rams posters.

Alfredo Leyva in Mexico, Matthew Hammatt in the USA, Ryan Lewandowski also in the USA, Juliano Monteiro Machado in Brazil and Vlad Radulescu in Romania won copies of Richard Meier Monograph.

Aleksandar Lalovic, Maja Simic and Marija Radisic in Serbia, Lucia bobikova in Slovakia and Andreea Patroi in Romania won tickets to Belgrade Design Week

 

Lord Foster quits House of Lords »

Zaha Hadid launches new website  »

Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion awarded Lubetkin Prize »

V&A to launch competition for Exhibition Road extension »

Günter Behnisch 1922-2010 »

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